michael haneke

It is the season of lists. Best of the Year/ Decade. Worst of the Year/ Decade.  

Goodness, notoriously, writes white – that is, it won't show up on the page. Evil, no problem at all – the ink flowing black and creating a contrast so sharp that you could read it from across the room. And one of the reasons for this disjunction is that we take evil to be a more active principal than goodness.  

In truly diverse fashion, the last 10 years offered us some of the richest motion pictures the medium has seen. Some stretched the boundaries of cinematic spectacle and redefined the popcorn flick, while others captured poignant moments of humanity, expressing our generational uncertainties through vivid tapestries of images and ideas. The following list reflects the strong variety of the films released this decade.  

Austrian born filmmaker Michael Haneke has left his mark on the international film industry and secured himself a place in history, winning this year's Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or for his haunting black and white film The White Ribbon ( Das Weisse Band ). The film was released on November 13 in Curzon Cinemas around the UK. Justifiably so, Haneke shares this accolade with some of the most highly acclaimed film directors in cinematic history.  

If your long-term spouse casts an eye on others, particularly younger potentials, that's not unusual. That syndrome was codified into hilarious celluloid, Billy Wilder's 1955 film "The Seven Year Itch." The question now is what to do if your husband has been flirting with another and you suspect that he plans to leave you forever (the passion just died) and go with his mistress to Paris on a romantic pre-honeymoon. Louise (Meg Ryan) is faced with that situation, if you can believe that anyone would want t  

T he one sure way to ascertain the fundamental direction of person's artistic sensibilities is to ask her what she thinks of the films of Michael Haneke. If she wrinkles her nose in disgust, if she says, "I can't handle that dark stuff," it means she is a normal person, and you may politely leave her to enjoy herself among normal people, among the CanLit book clubs and the reality-TV dance competitions. Fans of Haneke – like fans of the film genius Catherine Breillat – must find each other somehow, by tri  

I joined Independent because I was looking for a company that was solid enough to get the scripts in but at the same time also had a nice family feeling to it. I knew Jani [Guest] and [Richard] Packer and they were looking for a director like me to joint their roster. It was the right timing for all of us.  

Question: when is a summer blockbuster not a summer blockbuster? Answer: when it's released in November, of course. Roland Emmerich 's patented formula of awesome planetary destruction and human heroics always screams out for a summer release, but this year Sony chose not to throw his 2012 into a competitive market already crowded with Transformers, Terminators and Wolverine.  

In true Michael Haneke fashion, his latest film pretty much caused the Cannes jury to have a meltdown when it was awarded the Palmes D'Or earlier this year.