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UNBELIEVABLE: Bianca stigter | History Defined

Shame director Steve McQueen on why his new 4-and-a-half-hour documentary is worth the length

Big Screen Spotlight | Steve McQueen wants his new World War 2 documentary to act as a warning not to forget the past

Total Film

‘This was the most feared address in Amsterdam’: Steve McQueen takes us on a tour for Occupied City

It was a sobering but at times uplifting experience. Bianca Stigter and her husband Steve McQueen reveal how they made their four-hour film about the Nazi invasion that plunged their city into terror

The Guardian - UK

Amsterdam's Occupied City Fuses Past and Present in Stirring Documentary

Experience the stirring and confounding documentary Occupied City, where past and present collide in modern-day Amsterdam. A unique fusion of history and now.

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Holocaust past meets Amsterdam present in Steve McQueen's 'Occupied City'

In “Occupied City,” a young woman with an even voice narrates Nazi encounters and crimes throughout Amsterdam during World War II

The Independent UK

Steve McQueen defends four-hour runtime of new Nazi documentary: ‘An hour and a half wouldn’t do it a service’

A24-produced documentary looks at 130 locations in Amsterdam that relate to the Jewish community

The Independent UK

Mary McNamara: It's hard to watch a 4-hour documentary on Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. That's the point

CANNES, France — British director Steve McQueen knows his documentary "Occupied City," which premiered on the first day of this year's Cannes Festival, may not be what people expect. From him, or from a documentary.

Los Angeles Times

With 2 essential films, Cannes finds haunting new prisms on the Holocaust

Even before it entered its first weekend, the 76th Cannes Film Festival had claimed its first critical triumph and competition standout with "The Zone of Interest." An implacably chilling, entirely mesmerizing portrait of a family living in the shadow of the inferno, the movie was greeted at its Friday night…

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Nazis and normality: UK directors unsettle Cannes with films tackling ‘unseen’ evil

Steve McQueen and Jonathan Glazer separately confront the Holocaust with themes prompted by a resurgence of the far right

The Guardian - UK

In Steve McQueen's 4-hour Cannes entry 'Occupied City,' Holocaust past meets Amsterdam present

In “Occupied City,” a young woman with an even voice narrates Nazi encounters and crimes throughout Amsterdam during World War II

The Independent UK

Three Minutes: A Lengthening review – fragments of a Jewish town destroyed by war

The forensic analysis of home-movie footage shot in a small community in 1938 Poland is the subject of Bianca Stigter’s arresting documentary

The Guardian - UK

‘A small victory against erasure’: the three minutes that bring an exterminated Jewish past to life

A new documentary extends 200 seconds of home-movie footage shot in Poland in 1938 into a forensic examination of a community obliterated by the Nazis

The Guardian - UK

Review: The haunting Holocaust doc 'Three Minutes: A Lengthening' finds mystery in minutiae

The snippets of footage that are played and replayed in "Three Minutes: A Lengthening" open a window — smudged, weathered, mysterious, revelatory — onto a world that no longer exists.

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