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15 hours ago · The German air force’s bombing of London from Sept. 7, 1940, to May 11, 1941, left about 43,500 people dead and many more homeless. The attack campaign became known as "the Blitz." While the ...
2 days ago · Blitz, the new film from Steve McQueen, is another kind of British war film. A title card puts us in September 1940, and London. German bombs terrorise the city. Hellfire reigns. Ever since his ...
2 days ago · Stories do not always fit the narrative arcs we want for them. And even heroes — especially heroes — find themselves, sometimes, just weeping in the ruins. Blitz. Rated PG-13 for the ravages ...
1 day ago · In truth, Blitz is the most commercial of McQueen’s movies, and far less potent than his 2008 debut Hunger, its follow-up Shame or the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave. The film’s picaresque ...
3 days ago · Oscar-winner Steve McQueen's latest film offers a new perspective on life in the capital during the devastating 1940-41 Nazi bombing campaign – dispelling myths and clichés.
1 day ago · 1 Nov 2024. Elliott Heffernan as George and Saoirse Ronan as Rita in Blitz. Image: Parisa Taghizadeh. “We base a lot of our national identity on the Blitz and the Second World War. But we know more about the Tudors than about the Blitz.”. Steve McQueen’s latest film challenges us to take a new look at notions of Britishness and the ...
3 days ago · Rita is broken when she is forced to send her son away and, by the final reel, Ronan, Heffernan and McQueen will break you too. This is Steve McQueen’s most accessible film to date, without ...
