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...
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...
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...
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...
As Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or-winning laugh riot "The White Ribbon" opens in the UK and Sony Classics ramps up for the December 30th US release of the film, Hari Kunzru comes forth to praise the director and Stuart Klawans to (covertly) bury him. What's funny is they both end up pointing out the same thing. Kunzru -- the awesome British novelist whose "Transmission" is one of my...
I finally caught up with Mother from Bong Joon-ho (The Host) last night at AFI Fest. It’s only been 2 days, but it’s in the running for the best of the festival. Tonight I’ll be sampling Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner and Foreign Language Oscar hopeful The White Ribbon plus Israel’s Oscar entry Ajami. I’m [...]
Jacques Audiard's prison drama hailed as 'a masterpiece' as it takes the festival's inaugural best film prize Jacques Audiard's prison saga Un Prophète (A Prophet) was last night named as the inaugural winner of the London film festival's award for best feature film. The picture was first unveiled at the Cannes film festival back in May, where it took the jury prize but was beaten to the crowning...
Come time travelling with Film Weekly as this week's edition ranges over the state of the British film industry in the noughties to the funny side of life under a dictator in Romania in the 80s, also taking in a review of a coming-of-age tale set in 60s London. First up, Jason Solomons goes behind the scenes at the unveiling of the nominees for the British Independent Film awards and discusses the...
Jacques Audiard’s Palme d’Or runner-up A Prophet took the inaugural Star of London award at the just concluded BFI London Film Festival. John Hillcoat’s The Road received a special mention. France’s official selection for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, A Prophet is set for a US release on February 26, 2010. Audiard’s fifth feature in a [...]
Hot on the heels of its LFF screening, Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winning The White Ribbon is getting a UK theatrical release on 13th November through arthouse supremos Artificial Eye. "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,...
Genre: Cinema Premiere: 01/01/1970 Production Country: Directed By: Michael Haneke Producer: X-Filme Creative Pool Cast: Susanne Lothar , Ulrich Tukur , Mercedes Jadea Diaz , Janina Fautz , Burghart Klaußner , Josef Bierbichler Film Duration: 144 min Production Year: 2009 Plot Outline: A village in Protestant northern Germany. 1913-1914. On the eve of World War I. The story of the children and...
• UK cinema admissions increased 1% to 164m in 2008 • 20 cinemas could deliver earnings of £3m, analyst estimates "It's like two of your best friends getting married," gushed Four Weddings and a Funeral director Richard Curtis. "Can't think of a better combination," enthused Stephen Fry. At advance screenings last week, actors and Hollywood glitterati gave HMV's...
His uncompromising films deal in sadistic violence, sexual mutilation and the dark menace lurking within normal life. Michael Haneke, Austrian director of the acclaimed Hidden and winner of this year's Palme D'or for his latest movie, The White Ribbon, talks to Elizabeth Day about Nazi Germany, fanaticism, fatherhood – and his own happy childhood When people first meet the film director Michael...
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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....
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