The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Michael Haneke's Palme D'or winner offers a spellbinding tale of bigotry and brutality in a pre-Great War rural German community, says Philip French Numerous novelists, dramatists and film-makers have been attracted to the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the First World War to give their work a touch of nostalgia, irony or historical resonance. JB Priestley, whose life had been transformed...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
A German Protestant community pays the price for its own sins in Hidden Michael Haneke's drama, winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes 2009. Rating:3.5
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Jacques Audiard's acclaimed prison drama shortlisted for six awards, including best film, best director and best actor for newcomer Tahar Rahim The signs all point to Un Prophète (A Prophet) at next month's European film awards. Jacques Audiard's prison-set crime saga leads the field with six nominations, including best film and director. Newcomer Tahar Rahim was also nominated in the best...
Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
We're just a couple months away from the acknowledged end of the decade (it's really next year, because there was never a year zero, so this decade actually ends in 2010), and that means we'll get Best of the Decade lists on top of Best of the Year lists. I'm actually looking forward to the process myself and I'm revisiting some of the 25 movies or so I think have a chance to make my own list. The...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
For a film director who demands quite so much of his audience, and even more uncompromisingly of himself, it has taken the Austrian director Michael Haneke a long time (20 years to be precise) to gain the Palme d'Or at Cannes, that quintessential approbation of the art-house auteur. But then maybe, like Martin Scorsese's long wait for an Oscar, it isn't so surprising. Haneke is a director who challenges...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
As the Austrian director's Cannes-winning The White Ribbon arrives in UK cinemas, a long-overdue viewing of his film of The Castle has opened my eyes to another thread running through his work Michael Haneke's new film The White Ribbon is to be released next week. With the director's steadily advancing reputation, his big commercial success here with his 2005 film Hidden , and of course the Cannes...
baithak (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Afghan Opium's 'Devastating' Impact Outlined in U.N. Report - A new U.N. report describes Afghanistan as producing 92 percent of the world's opium market, feeding 15 million addicts and funding Taliban insurgents and terrorist organizations. Akram's wife suffers multiple- organ failure, condition critical Siddiqui: Looking for accountability over Gaza war - A panel asked both Israel and Hamas to hold...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
For the past three decades, Ken Loach has been the granddaddy of British Social Realism. His kitchen sink dramas focus on real people living normal lives, normally in working class Britain. He has occasionally ventured out of his comfort zone with films like LAND AND FREEDOM and THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, with much critical success - the latter won the Palme D'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival....
Moderato (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
SPIEGEL Austrian director Michael Haneke discusses his shocking new film, “The White Ribbon,” which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, his penchant for gloomy stories that unnerve his viewers and his unsettling view of humanity. SPIEGEL: Mr. Haneke, you won the Palme d’Or in Cannes this year for your shocking film “The White Ribbon.” Now Germany [...]
How Yah Doon? (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Some poems and films by poets with a few poets and Q and A on Tuesday Oct 6th at 6:15 pm at Curzon Renoir Cinema in London. Including: More For Less – Sonal Sachdeva Martin and Alf have been living over the past few years as Freegans, living from the excessive waste generated by people & supermarkets. In a way they have chosen to go against the societal norm of having steady, paid jobs and...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
R osemary’s Baby (“outdoes Hitchcock” -- Roger Ebert), Chinatown (“outstanding” -- Variety ), and The Pianist (“definitive” -- the New York Times ) are fine films. They have been rightly honored and praised. The question is whether their excellence justifies criminal acts. The controversy over director Roman Polanski’s arrest in Switzerland on his way...
Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
Once again this year, one of the most prominent contingents of filmmakers and films at the Bangkok International Film Festival comes from the Philippines. For a look at where these indie filmmakers are coming from, Lekha J. Shankar went to the Cinemalaya festival in July in Manila, where she had a firsthand look at the Filipino independent cinema scene. Story by Lekha J. Shankar No Asian country is...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
Following a series of short films and a pair of acclaimed features about strong, disturbed women, 1989’s Sweetie and the 1990 Janet Frame biopic An Angel At My Table , New Zealand-born director Jane Campion broke through with 1993’s The Piano , a period drama about a mute pianist (Holly Hunter); the film won the Palme D’Or at Cannes and earned Oscars for the screenplay and for Anna...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Which stars have been out and about this past week? Whole galaxies of them. I've collected a few randomly for this edition of the red carpet lineup . It's but a tiny fraction of the luminaries since we're now in the thick of festival season. Telluride is behind us, Venice wraps today, and Toronto just kicked off. And that's just the big ones. Nicholas Hoult and Julianne Moore hit Venice for the premiere...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
Europe: Haneke pic named foreign critics' film of the year -- "The White Ribbon," Michael Haneke's Cannes Palme d'Or winner, has won the Intl. Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci) Grand Prix for film of the year.
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