Michael Haneke Articles

The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke’s depiction of rural Germany on the eve of World War I — and how the cute (if dangerous) little children of that era grew into the Nazis and their followers of the 1930s and 1940s — received 13 nominations for the Lolas, the German version of the Academy Awards. In the Lolas’ top categories, the 2010 Best Foreign Language Film [...]

The 2010 German Academy Award winners will be announced on April 23 in Berlin. Best film Everyone Else, dir. Maren Ade When We Leave, dir. Feo Aladag Soul Kitchen dir. Fatih Akin Storm dir. Hans-Christian Schmid The White Ribbon dir. Michael Haneke Desert Flower dir. Sherry Hormann Best documentary The Woman with the 5 Elephants dir. Vadim Jendreyko The Heart of Jenin dir. Marcus Vetter, [...]

Ewan McGregor in The Ghost Writer (top); Hichem Jacoubi, Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (bottom) Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island grossed (or rather, is grossing) millions this weekend. The same goes for Cop Out, The Crazies, Avatar and its $700 million, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and Valentine’s Day. But forget those Hollywood flicks for a moment. In fact, if you look at [...]

A good surprise at the American Society of Cinematographers awards ceremony held Saturday at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles: Christian Berger won the ASC Award for Best Cinematography for his work on a "small" black-and-white foreign-language film, Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon. Berger’s competitors were in the running for movies with a much higher profile: Barry Ackroyd for The Hurt Locker, Mauro [...]