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Wicked Part 1 | Blitz + Stephen Graham | The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

On Truth & Movies this week, we dis­cuss the musi­cal Wicked Part 1. We also review Steve McQueen’s Blitz and spoke to its star Stephen Gra­ham and for film revis­it The Wiz­ard Of Oz.

Blitz – A vital fragment of the Steve McQueen saga

by Rógan Graham

A moth­er and son reunion takes place on the bomb-shat­tered streets of World War Two-era Lon­don in this sweep­ing his­tor­i­cal melodrama.

Occupied City review – a staggeringly ambitious feat of emotional stamina

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Steven McQueen pro­vides a haunt­ing exam­i­na­tion of Ams­ter­dam under Nazi occu­pa­tion in con­trast to its present in his doc­u­men­tary adapt­ed from Bian­ca Stigter’s book of the same name.

Occupied City – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Steve McQueen’s doc­u­men­tary con­trast­ing present-day Ams­ter­dam with its past occu­pa­tion by the Nazis is a tes­ta­ment to the chang­ing face of history.

The silence and the fury of Steve McQueen’s Grenfell

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The artist, film­mak­er and activist has pro­duced one of his most pow­er­ful works ever in this metic­u­lous 24-minute sur­vey of a Lon­don crime scene.

Uprising is an urgent, emotional account of a national tragedy

by Katie Goh

Steve McQueen and James Rogan’s three-part docuseries exam­ines three piv­otal events from 1981.

Education

by Aaron Hunt

A West Indi­an boy comes up against a racist edu­ca­tion­al sys­tem in the final film of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series.

Alex Wheatle

by Rógan Graham

The strik­ing fourth episode in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthol­o­gy depicts the dif­fi­cult blos­som­ing of an artist.

Red, White and Blue

by David Jenkins

John Boye­ga tack­les insti­tu­tion­al big­otry with­in the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Police in Steve McQueen’s sear­ing anti-racism drama.

Lovers Rock

by Hannah Strong

Steve McQueen deliv­ers a sub­lime par­ty film for the ages in the sec­ond instal­ment of his Small Axe series.