Jay Liu is a writer and critic of film and culture hailing from the embattled city of Hong Kong. He was chosen twice to lead the official Cannes Classics x USC School of Cinematic Arts partnership, ...
The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke’s first German-language film since the original Funny Games (1997) and, addressing what used to be called “the German problem” while dodging the filmmaker’s own ...
For 11 of its 12 days, the 62nd Cannes Film Festival was in large part the Cannes Movie Festival. At a hallowed venue where minimalist art films usually dominate, this year sensation often ran rampant ...
The German-French producer led iconic company Les Films du Losange for close to 50 years. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Margaret Menegoz, the head of French production company Les Films du ...
The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke’s first German-language film since the original Funny Games (1997) and it’s his best ever. A period piece set on the eve of World War I in an echt Protestant, ...
Margaret Menegoz, the head of French production company Les Films du Losange, who produced the movies of Michael Hanke, Wim Wenders and Éric Rohmer, among others, has died. She was 83. The company ...
You know those dour German schoolmasters of a century ago who caned their pupils for the slightest offense? Well, those school kids grew up to be sadistic little boot-lickers in search of a scapegoat.