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Ahead of the release of Michael Haneke 's Palm D'or winning The White Ribbon this Friday in the UK and on December 30th in the US, we have the exclusive unveiling of a new online scene from the film to tempt you with.

Absolutely extraordinary and easily arriving in the top 5 movies of the year. How do you begin to describe this film? Show in black and white, in German, over two and half hours long and depicting a small village on the eve of World War 1.... that's enough perhaps to put some off.

The White Ribbon, the new film from arthouse heavyweight Michael Haneke, is a work of startling psychological brilliance.

Has any director, European or otherwise, made as many top-rate films this decade as the Austrian Michael Haneke? Code Unknown ; The Piano Teacher , in which Isabelle Huppert gave one of the great performances in recent times; the eerily-apocalyptic Time of the Wolf ; Hidden : leaving aside his misguided English-language remake of Funny Games, and ...

Michael Haneke's Palme D'or winner offers a spellbinding tale of bigotry and brutality in a pre-Great War rural German community, says Philip French Numerous novelists, dramatists and film-makers have been attracted to the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the First World War to give their work a touch of nostalgia, irony or historical ...

But the 67-year-old's latest film, The White Ribbon , which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in May, looks set to become his most acclaimed yet.

London, The White Ribbon is an unholy masterpiece Trapped by tradition: Thibault Serie as Gustav, one of the children in a strictly Lutheran village Other reviews Village of dangerous secrets in White Ribbon A bit of understanding about Germany's strange social, cultural and political history explains a lot about Austrian director Michael Haneke's ...

When a story is set in the years just prior to the First World War, one can usually expect its keynote to be one of lament and loss.

White Ribbon tied to pre-war cruelty, By Ian Soutar WINNER of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes festival, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon is a disturbing study of human cruelty.

German director Michael Haneke talks about directing his Palme d'Or winner The White Ribbon , working with children, getting to grips with Fascism and period detail and whether he'll be making another American movie.

Writer-director Sophie Barthes marks our card with her first film, a smart existential comedy.

For a film director who demands quite so much of his audience, and even more uncompromisingly of himself, it has taken the Austrian director Michael Haneke a long time to gain the Palme d'Or at Cannes, that quintessential approbation of the art-house auteur.

Jacques Audiard's prison thriller "A Prophet" leads the nominations for this year's European Film Awards -Europe's equivalent of the Oscars - with six mentions.

Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they're seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect.

In 'A Christmas Carol,' Robert Zemeckis's visual design creates a world of convincing substance that has an element of fantasy.

The AFI Fest defines itself as the festival of festivals and as director of programming, Robert Koehler pointed out before this screening, there would have been a glaring hole without this year's Palme d'Or winner from Cannes, Michael Haneke's Das weisse Band .

Hard-hitting French prison drama "A Prophet" won the first-ever best film prize at the London Film Festival on Wednesday.

IT was a Thursday evening at this year's New York Film Festival , and a polyglot audience of several hundred cinephiles, trending toward the young and smartly dressed, was wondering aloud about the depravities of north German villagers almost a century ago.