Steve McQueen, Blitz and World War II

Steve McQueen made ‘Blitz’ to imagine war through a child’s eyes
The director illuminates his new World War II epic, focused on a boy’s fight to get back home amid the rubble of war-torn London.
Steve McQueen looks at WWII through child’s eyes in ‘Blitz’
While those born years after the months-long 1940 Nazi bombing of London may have no clue about Hitler’s merciless destruction of civilian targets or the Brits’ courageous resistance, the subject,
In ‘Blitz,’ Steve McQueen shows wartime London through a child’s eyes
It was a single photograph that started Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen on the journey to make “Blitz.”.
Steve McQueen on Blitz and how it tells a different kind of war story
The Oscar-winning filmmaker joins Q’s Tom Power to talk about his new film, and why the story is still relevant in 2024.
Steve McQueen's messily truncated Blitz still has its moving virtues
Arduousness defined director Steve McQueen's earliest works ... Like his 2020 Small Axe feature Education, McQueen tells Blitz largely through the eyes of a child experiencing hardship ingrained into the adult world. This director’s gift for rendering ...
‘War Through a Child’s Eyes’: Steve McQueen on Blitz
Seeing war through a child’s eyes is sobering. It helps us reconnect to a situation that’s ongoing and unfortunately very […] The post ‘War Through a Child’s Eyes’: Steve McQueen on Blitz appeared first on MovieMaker Magazine.
As bombs fall in ‘Blitz,’ a look at WWII history in London through new eyes
Elliott Heffernan makes a stunning debut as the son of a factory worker played by Saoirse Ronan in director Steve McQueen ...
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Director Steve McQueen shows war through child's eyes in new film 'Blitz'
LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Oscar winner Steve McQueen had long wanted to make a ... inspired him to explore the theme through a child's eyes. His film "Blitz" is based on thorough research and ...
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Steve McQueen shows wartime London through a child’s eyes
It was a single photograph that started Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen on the journey to make “Blitz.” As a ...