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The British actress won a prestigious Academy Award for her turn as a former concentration camp guard in the 2008 drama, as well as picking up prizes at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Awards and the Screen Actors Guild.

Opening a trailer with a quote comparing the advertised film to The Godfather could be considered the greatest act of hubris in the movie advertising world.

The White Ribbon , Michael Haneke 's film about a small German village that, in the year leading up to World War I, experiences a series of odd, brutal, and mysterious crimes, earned top honors at the European Fim Awards on Saturday earning Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenwriter.

Austrian director Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon," a chilling exploration of the roots of Nazi terror, dominated the European Film Awards on Saturday, winning three prizes including best film.

Get the latest version of QuickTime to view movie trailers. A Prophet In theaters: February 26, 2010 Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read not write.

Jacques Audiard's crime drama 'A Prophet' was awarded the Louis Delluc prize by Cannes film fest prexy Gilles Jacob at a ceremony held Friday in Paris.

'Break of a lifetime' ... Tahar Rahim, right, with Niels Arestrup and Jacques Audiard, centre.

From : Nairi Hakhverdian Date : Wed, 9 Dec 2009 23:57:07 PST Interview: Jacques Audiard Jason Solomons The Guardian / The Observer Sunday 6 December 2009 Jacques Audiard's new prison thriller is the most stylish film to come out of Europe for years, following up on the promise of his previous movies Read My Lips and The Beat that My Heart Skipped ...

FRENCH IMPACT: The gritty Gallic offering 'A Prophet' has not only created huge buzz on the festival circuit but has raised the profile of helmer Jacques Audiard, showing squatting on set, with American talent agencies.

Yesterday we gave you a list of all the films playing in-competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

A celebration of all things Hollywood it may be, but when it comes to the race for the foreign-language film Academy Award, the kudocast begins to resemble another globally televised, multinational event: the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics.

Sundance Film Festival 2010's out-of-competition lineup announced, NEXT (), Spotlight launched December 3, 2009 1:00 pm The latest features from such acclaimed directors as Michael Winterbottom, Jay and Mark Duplass, Gaspar Noe and Rodrigo Garcia are among the lineup of out-of-competition films scheduled to screen at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival ...

The second Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in India will be held December 2-6 in Mumbai featuring eight French films, including a restored version of Jean-Luc Godard's classic "Pierrot le Fou." Organized by the Embassy of France and Unifrance and held at Fun Cinemas, the event will also be attended by 11 French film figures such as directors ...

Seven movies are on the menu of the week-long European Film Festival starting today in Buenos Aires.

It's dangerous to generalize about an event as vast and sprawling, and with such disparate elements, as the European Union Film Festival , although the temptation to do just that is well nigh irresistible.

When Jacques Audiard began his ambitious project about an illiterate young French thug's rite of passage, he wanted to name it after Bob Dylan's song Gotta Serve Somebody .

The 40th International Film Festival of India opens Monday in Goa with Chinese historical epic "Wheat" by director He Ping and closes December 3 with Pedro Almodovar's dark love story "Broken Embraces." Sir Ben Kingsley is expected to be the guest of honor at the opening ceremony with chief guest, veteran actress Waheeda Rehman.

And the Oscar for Most Prolific Composer of 2009 goes to: Alexandre Desplat. The Paris-born composer has written music for nine films over the past 12 months, six of which are potentially eligible in this year's round of awards-giving and two of which are presumably major contenders for next year's honors.

In the early 1960s, Clouzot, a manip ulative control-freak, decided to go all new wave with a hallucinatory psychological thriller, L'Enfer , starring Romy Schneider, below.

Jessica Hausner's "Lourdes" and Urszula Antoniak's "Nothing Personal," two rewardingly thoughtful works by budding femme auteurs, took the top Golden and Silver Giraldillo at a lively 6th Seville European Film Festival.