Oscar and double Palme d’Or winner Michael Haneke has become the latest prominent European artist to lament what he calls a “witch hunt” in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Speaking with Kurier, the Austrian filmmaker said there is no question that “any form of rape or coercion is punishable… But this hysterical…

Oscar and Palme d’Or winning director and screenwriter Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon, Amour) has teamed with FremantleMedia’s UFA Fiction (Deutschland 83) on his first TV series, drama Kelvin’s Book.

The English language, ten-part, high concept series is set in a dystopian world and will tell the adventurous story o…

The Cannes Film Festival will celebrate its 70th birthday beginning in a little over two months, and that means it's time to start the stroll poll of who'll be on the red carpet for the fest that runs May 17-28. With the majority of the Official Selection set to be unveiled in Paris on April 13, speculation is at a…

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American and Latin American rights to writer-director Michael Haneke’s new film Happy End, which features his Amour stars Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant along with Mathieu Kassovitz and Toby Jones. The French production wrapped in August. Stefan Arndt and Veit…

In response to the outcome of a 2015 poll of the 100 Greatest American Films of All Time, BBC Culture recently threw critics a different question. Finding that last year’s results included only six films made since 2000, editors at the arts pages of the venerable broadcaster commissioned a new poll to determine the…

Oscar- and Palme d’Or-winning Austrian director Michael Haneke is preparing to shoot his latest film, Happy End, in France’s Calais region next spring. The area, which serves as a ferry port for transport to the UK, has made headlines this year as the refugee crisis has escalated. A series of camps there has been…

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