The White Ribbon Articles

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 [...]

Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (Roger Arpajou / Sony Pictures Classics) The Cesar winners will be announced on Feb. 27. MEILLEUR FILM / BEST FILM A L’ORIGINE / IN THE BEGINNING, Edouard Weil and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam; directed by Xavier Giannoli LE CONCERT / THE CONCERT, Alain Attal; directed by Radu Mihaileanu LES HERBES FOLLES / WILD GRASS, Jean-Louis Livi; directed by Alain Resnais LA [...]

Avatar may be the king of the box office, but it surely wasn’t king of anything at the London Film Critics’ Circle Awards held this evening in, where else, London. The London Critics’ best film of 2009? Jacques Audiard’s prison drama A Prophet, the first French-made production to win the Circle’s top award in its 30-year history. Starring European Film Award winner Tahar Rahim (above), [...]

Best Foreign Language Film: Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon Other nominees: Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani’s Ajami (Israel), Juan José Campanella’s The Secret of Her Eyes (Argentina), Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow (Peru), Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet (France). Because only a relatively small group of Academy members vote in the special categories — short films, documentaries, foreign language films — winners often surprise and [...]