Michael Haneke

Cannes 2012: Michael Haneke's 'Love' Sweeps Audience Away

Karin Badt | Posted 05.22.2012

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The film -- as the title suggests -- is a testimony to love. It is one of my favorite films at the festival -- and clearly a great hit with the public.

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Cannes: The Home Edition

John Lopez | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Moonrise Kingdom, Abbas Kiarostami, John Hillcoat, Jacques Audiard, Michael Haneke, Marion-Cottilard, Cannes, Wes Anderson, Andrew Dominik, David Cronenberg, Cannes 2012, Festival De Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Los Angeles News

Behold: the cerulean sparkle of the Cote d'Azur, the endless waft of chain-smoked Gitanes over the Croisette, the private yachts. Cannes. And its megaton line-up has arched the eyebrow of even the most indifferent cineastes this year.

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HuffPost Review: Kidnapped

Marshall Fine | Posted 08.15.2011

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There's dramatic movie violence -- and then there's sadistic, nihilistic movie violence. If you've got a taste for the latter, Kidnapped should be right up your alley.

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Cannes 2011 Day Five: Can Cannes Handle A Truly Fun Film? "The Artist" Debuts

Michael Giltz | Posted 07.15.2011

Read More: Michael Haneke, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Movies, Michael Shannon, Entertainment News

Okay, one more day until Malick's The Tree Of Life. Should this really be seen as the only hope for the fest? I've already seen several movies that we...

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On the Culture Front: Beowulf at Joe's Pub, The Housemaid, and the New York International Fringe Festival

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Beowulf, Im Sang-Soo, NY Culture, Michael Haneke, New York Fringe Festival, Toronto Film Festival, The Housemaid, Joe's Pub, Luis Bunuel, New York News

Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage is the kind of piece that's ripe for a cult following, so it'd be great to see it land a residency somewhere in the city.

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The Night of the Oscar

Sam Wasson | Posted 05.25.2011

In trying to appeal to the young, the producers of the 82nd Academy Awards turned what could have been a meaningful evening into a bloodless night of dinner theater.

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An Academy Conspiracy Against Foreign Films?

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: "Hurt Locker, Jacques Audiard, Michael Haneke, " Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Awards, Foreign Films, "The Messenger, Dissenting Views, The Palme D'Or, Entertainment News

Perhaps the Academy's thinking is, why give its imprimatur to important works of artistry that detract from stories for 14 year-olds with game-changing effects?

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Shutter Island Paradise

Sam Wasson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Aviator, Film Noir, Vertigo, Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese, After Hours, Horror, Alfred Hitchcock, Bringing Out the Dead, The Age of Innocence, The Departed, Taxi Driver, Dennis Lehane, Cape Fear, Leonardo Dicaprio, Michael Haneke, Entertainment News

Shutter Island pushes our conception of Scorsese to the brink. It tests him, proving that he has what it takes to navigate through the film's several time frames and planes of consciousness.

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HuffPost Review: The White Ribbon

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Unless you're a dog undergoing house-breaking, you don't need to have your nose rubbed in s**t to be reminded that it exists. But that seems to be Michael Haneke's raison d'etre.

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Lessons Learned at the 75th New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Sarris, Kathryn Bigelow, Michael Haneke, Rex Reed, George Clooney, Coen Brothers, Jeremy Renner, Frank Rich, Christian Berger, Anthony Mackie, Christine Laht, Christoph Waltz, Entertainment News

#4: Pay attention to Freud. Austrian Christoph Waltz, the oxymoronic charming Nazi of Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, insists he is not German. There is a huge cultural difference, he assured me.

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Michael Haneke: When the Nazis Were Children

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Essential Viewing, Haneke in His Own Words, Germany on Eve of WWI, Origins of Nazism, Michael Haneke, New York Film Festival, Palme D'Or, The White Ribbon, Entertainment News

Haneke's masterful drama unfolds in a rural German town on the eve of World War I, in an attempt to unearth the origins of Nazism.

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Knife in the Auteur

Sam Wasson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Roman Polanski is arguably the world's greatest living filmmaker. Who else, since Hitchcock, has managed to mine terror from the most seemingly innocuous sources?

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TIFF's Guilty Pleasures

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oscar Wilde, Ricky Gervais, U.S. Open, "The Invention of Lying, Michael Haneke, Jennifer Garner, Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter, Colin Firth, Entertainment News

The past day's crop of films has ranged from moderately interesting to guilty pleasure.

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Dust-Up in Toronto

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: "Bleak Is the New Black, Cannes Versus Toronto, " George Clooney, Michael Haneke, Protest, Toronto Film Festival, Michael Moore, "Brand Israel" Controversy, Capitalism Movie, Entertainment News

Many of the biggest films coming to the Toronto Film Festival this year have inspired the motto from Telluride: "bleak is the new black."

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Amat Escalante on Los Bastardos

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Los Bastardos is a spare and brutal survey of the suburban wasteland.

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Palme d'Or Winner of Cannes 2009: Michael Haneke's "White Ribbon"

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

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The intent of the movie is to show how the imminent war -- or any imminent war -- results from the sickness of a culture as well as from inherent human malice.

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Cannes Wrap Up: What Journalists are Saying

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jury Decision at Cannes, Palme D'Or, Jane Campion, Isabelle Huppert, Michael Haneke, Michael-Haneke, Cannes Winners, Marco Bellocchio, Cannes Film Festival 2009, Cannes, Entertainment News

Fish Tank tells the story of an alienated adolescent girl fighting her way to have an identity with a mother who hates her and a peer group which shuns her.

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'The White Ribbon' Wins Palme d'Or At 2009 Cannes

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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CANNES, France — Austrian director Michael Haneke's somber drama "The White Ribbon" claimed the top prize Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival, wh...

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Cannes Buzz: Which Film Will Win?

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ang Lee, Marco Bellochio, Agora, Michael Haneke, Pedro Almodovar, Ken Loach, Lars Von Trier, Cannes Film Festival 2009, Cannes, Entertainment News

All charismatic, powerful men ruthlessly destroy other people's lives as they cheer on "Vincere!"

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Cannes 2009 Day Eight: Jews Fighting Back, Jews In Love, Singing Nuns and Dour Germans

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Quentin Tarantino, Michael Haneke, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes-France, Entertainment News

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a revenge fantasy where a band of Jews head into occupied France and kick some ass in the most violent, frightening way possible.

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