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Michael Haneke: When the Nazis Were Children

Erica Abeel | Posted 10.09.2009 | Entertainment

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
Erica Abeel

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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Cannes Wrap Up: What Journalists are Saying

Karin Badt | Posted 06.25.2009 | Entertainment

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
Karin Badt

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

Karin Badt | Posted 06.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Palme D'Or, White Ribbon, Michael Haneke, Cannes Film Festival 2009, Civil War, World War I, Cannes, Weimar-Germany, Protestants, Film, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

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

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 06.24.2009 | Entertainment

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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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The Class: Inside the Walls of French Education

Karin Badt | Posted 07.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: French Society, Social Mobility, Cannes Film Festival 2008, Sarkozy, Palme D'Or, French Schools, The Class, Cannes Film Festival, French Education System, Nicolas Sarkozy, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

The Class, despite its intentions to show dynamic pedagogy at work, reveals its the opposite: how "learning" in France consists of accumulating "facts."

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