SimplyScripts (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Sony Classics fired off their salvo of scripts up for award consideration. You can view a complete list of all known studio posted scripts for 2009 Script Award Consideration here. An Education - Undated, unspecified draft script By Nick Hornby (Adapted from the article ‘An Education’ by Lynn Barber) – in pdf format In the [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
...says in his column
The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Goodness, notoriously, writes white – that is, it won't show up on the page. Evil, no problem at all – the ink flowing black and creating a contrast so sharp that you could read it from across the room. And one of the reasons for this disjunction is that we take evil to be a more active principal than goodness.
battle royale with cheese (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Out in UK cinemas now, The White Ribbon answers why Michael Haneke deserves the Palme d'Or.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Haneke and Houellebecq: a match made in misanthrope's heaven
Most Beautiful Fraud in the World (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Beginning next week I will launch my look back at the cinematic decade that was. Beginning with the year 2000 (sorry all you 2001 decade purists - I am beginning with 2000) and moving on through the aughts, I will talk about the best films of each particular year. This will all lead up to the revelation of my list of the best of 2009, sometime in the first week of 2010 (since I missed out on the NYFF...
Entartete Musik (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I don't know if the story that I want to tell you, reflects the truth in every detail. Much of it I only know by hearsay, and a lot of it remains obscure to me even today, and I must leave it in darkness. Many of these questions remain without answer. But I believe I must tell of the strange events that occurred in our village, because they may cast a new light on some of the goings-on in this
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Writing in this month's Sight & Sound , Geoff Andrew lambasts the widely held conception that Michael Haneke's work is that of "some kind of sadistic, didactic provocateur". Andrew states: Such charges are as misguided as the claim that his films are 'cold' ... Besides the obvious consideration that facile equations of tone, form and content should be avoided, one need only look at the...
24 FRAMES PER SECOND (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Das Weiße Band [The White Ribbon] Dir: Michael Haneke Cast: Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaußner, Leonard Proxauf, Rainer Bock, Susanne Lothar, Leoni Benesch Michael Haneke’s cinema is deliberately, often explicitly, challenging. The White Ribbon lacks the extremes of films like Funny Games and The Piano Teacher but, like its director’s previous work, it is an uneasy experience....
Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Why do so many white, middle-class European film fans love the writer/director Michael Haneke and his tales of affluent lives infected with guilt and battered by violence? He seems to excite their moral masochism and arouse their hidden anxieties — tickling their sense of post-imperial guilt with films such as Hidden, or their fears of youth with Benny’s Video and Funny Games. While middle...
24 FRAMES PER SECOND (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
This week at 24 FPS, It's Tilda Swinton week. I'll be looking at seven films featuring the idiosyncratic British actress, including The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe ; Sally Potter's Orlando and her Oscar winning role in Michael Clayton . Also coming this week... Reviews of Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience (with a Q and A with star Sasha Grey)
Latest Movie Trailers (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
A village in Protestant northern Germany. 1913-1914. On the eve of World War I. The story of the children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the baron, the steward, the pastor, the doctor, the midwife, the tenant farmers. Strange accidents occur and gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual. Who is behind it all?
Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
I saw Michael Haneke’s new film, The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band) last night. A beautiful and disturbing evocation of childhood and evil in a small German village on the eve of World War 1. It really cements Haneke’s reputation as one of the greatest film-makers working today. The central thread of the film [...]
Harpymarx (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Well I am off to see Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon at the BFI later meant to see it last night but was just too knackered after the LRC AGM. Crikey…I am getting old. So I ended up at home, brain addled (still recovering from a sinus cold) slumped on the sofa watching Four Weddings and a Funeral. I saw [...]
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bsalmons | 25/05/2009
There are well over thirty named characters in "The White Ribbon" (Das Weisse Band), Austrian auteur Michael Haneke's newly anointed Palme d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival.
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