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Doom, gloom and Michael Haneke.
Mon, Nov 2 2009 4:26 PM

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... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Michael Haneke, Controversy, The White Ribbon, Nazis, Hari Kunzru, Stuart Klawans

Michael Haneke's abiding sadness.
Thu, Oct 8 2009 9:55 AM

Michael Haneke's fondness for scolding didacticism just don't work for some people, myself among them. But "The White Ribbon" is a whole other thing, a movie where anything dreadful that can happen will, just to prove that people are so terrible you can't even count on them not to turn into ***, or something like that. Set in a small German... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Michael Haneke, New York Film Festival 2009, NYFF, Arthur Schnitzler, The White Ribbon, Village of the Damned, Arthur Miller

Cannes do.
Thu, Apr 23 2009 6:17 AM

The competition line-up for this year's Cannes Film Festival has been announced! A fair amount of Euro provocateurs -- Lars von Trier, Gaspar Noé, Michael Haneke -- and France in general, and only two American films, the expected Tarantino and the unexpected Ang Lee comedy, which hopefully has more to it than its trailer would indicate. New films from Jane... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Quentin Tarantino, Cannes 2009, Ang Lee, Terry Gilliam, Antichrist, Lars von Trier, Johnnie To, Park Chan-wook, Gaspar Noé, Michael Haneke, Jane Campion, Pedro Almodóvar, Taking Woodstock, Inglourious Basterds