While I was watching The White Ribbon, I kept thinking back to how lucky I was that I attended a high school with teachers that turned out to be better than any of the professors I had in college.  Without …

The contenders for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film have just been narrowed to an elite nine films: El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Samson & Delilah, The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner, Un Prophète, …

A new international trailer for “The White Ribbon,” the new film by Michael Haneke (“Funny Games”) that walked away with a handful of accolades this year at Cannes, has just been released. The film seems to follow a series of …

The Toronto Film Festival starts in a few weeks and like every year, the Festival is loaded with plenty of world premieres. While I had planned on attending this year’s Festival as a member of the working press, due to …

American readers: did you not have enough money to make it to this year Cannes Film Festival?  Did you find that you lived in the real world and that in this economy, making it all the way over there to …

Michael Haneke, a director whose films are quite good but not for those looking for a nice, pick-me-up (“The Piano Teacher” has nothing do with piano lessons or teaching, I assure you), took home the Palme d’Or, the top prize …