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Oscars: 9 Films make Shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film

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The Oscars are almost upon us, and with just two weeks to go before we hear the final nominations, the race is on, with all the main categories wide open and still to play for. And now one of those categories, for the Best Foreign Language Film, is narrowing. So far, we’ve had the shortlists [...]




First US Trailer for Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or Winner, Amour

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Michael Haneke, the BAFTA-nominated writer-director behind The White Ribbon, Caché, and Funny Games, returns to bring us Amour, one of the most talked-about films of the year. Making its debut at Cannes, where it came away with the coveted Palme d’Or, the film has been continuing the film circuit in recent months – you can [...]




LFF 2012: Amour Review

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Good or indeed great films about older couples seem to be something of a rarity, but there are those unique films that tackle the subject with elegance and intelligence. Masterpieces such as Make Way for Tomorrow and Tokyo Story immediately come to mind and Michael Haneke’s latest, Amour, now earns a place alongside those very [...]




Win Michael on DVD

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To mark the release of Michael (out now!), we’ve been given three copies of the box set to give away. A protégé of Michael Haneke, Markus Schleinzer’s acclaimed first feature is a triumph of uneasy cinema. With an unorthodox level of restraint, the director tells the story of a dull of cedrone who keeps a kidnapped [...]




Cannes 2012 Lineup Announced: Hillcoat, Haneke, Audiard Among Those in Competition

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This morning the 2012 Cannes lineup was announced at a press conference in Paris and there’s a number of intriguing films in and out of competition this year. John Hillcoat’s Lawless makes an appearance with Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Jessica Chastain and Guy Pearce forming an excellent cast for the director’s follow up to The [...]




Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Michael Haneke’s Amour (Love)

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Sony Pictures Classics have acquired the North American distribution rights to Amour, French filmmaker Michael Haneke’s follow-up to the multi-award winning The White Ribbon. Amour, known as Love in English-speaking countries, tells of the struggles felt by a cultivated, retired couple, Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva), when Anne unexpectedly suffers a life-threatening stroke. [...]




Sleeping Beauty Review

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On face value, Australian author Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty is both a sordid and brave film-making debut that will literally divide opinion. It’s not the nudity that is the main issue for most, rather the treatment of the main character, Lucy, played by Sucker Punch’s Emily Browning that triggers deep feelings of revulsion. At the [...]




Exclusive Interview: Emily Browning Talks About Sleeping Beauty

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Famed for her lead role as Baby Doll in Zack Snyder’s fantasy action adventure Sucker Punch about an institutionalised young girl who retreats into an alternative reality as a coping mechanism while planning to escape from a mental facility, Australian actress Emily Browning talks to us about her next controversial film, Sleeping Beauty. Officially selected [...]




Exclusive Interview: Writer-director Julia Leigh Talks About Sleeping Beauty

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Known as a novelist first and foremost, author and debut film-maker Julia Leigh wanted to ask the question, what would it be like to be a ‘sleeping beauty’, after reading two novellas by Yasunari Kawabata and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Officially selected at Cannes 2011, Leigh’s film, Sleeping Beauty, is a haunting portrait of Lucy (played [...]




Review: The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band)

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  The Palme d’Or. The prize awarded by the jury at the Cannes International film festival, for the best film in the competition. In recent times, it has been awarded to both up and coming film directors, like Steven Soderbergh, the Coens, and perhaps most famously Quentin Tarantino, and veterans of their art like Gus [...]




International Trailer: The White Ribbon

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Here’s the new international trailer for the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Palme D’or winner, The White Ribbon. The White Ribbon is directed by Michael Haneke’s and stars Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Tukur, Theo Trebs, Michael Schenk, Leonie Benesch, Josef Bierbichler, Rainer Bock, Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaussner, Steffi Kuhnert and Ursina Lardi. Set in a village in [...]