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Michael Haneke discusses 'The White Ribbon'

Michael Haneke discusses 'The White Ribbon'

Dave Calhoun met with Michael Haneke in Munich to mull over his masterly Palme d'Or winner, 'The White Ribbon'

 

The White Ribbon
Rated 5 star(s)

The extraordinary new film from Michael Haneke

The White Ribbon

2012
Rated 4 star(s)

Large-scale destructo-porn from Roland Emmerich

2012

Tulpan
Rated 4 star(s)

Birth, death and romance on the Kazakh steppe

Tulpan

Harry Brown
Rated 2 star(s)

Hateful, London-set vigilante flick

Harry Brown

Amelia
Rated 3 star(s)

Mira Nair’s solid biopic of aviatrix Amelia Earhart

Amelia

Taking Woodstock
Rated 4 star(s)

Ang Lee's take on the World's Greatest Rock Festival

Taking Woodstock
 

Still running

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Bob Zemeckis places a digitally animated Jim Carrey into Dickens’s seminal Christmas tale

Cold Souls

Paul Giamatti heads-up this soul-swapping head scratcher from Sophie Barthes

Lala Pipo – A Lot of People

Chronically bad Japanese sex comedy, the second film this year (after 'Bruno') to feature a talking penis

Love the Beast

Eric Bana vanity project in which builds and rebuilds a 1974 Ford Falcon XB Coupe

Michael Jackson's This Is It

A last hurrah for the troubled entertainer in this surprisingly thrilling and uplifting doc

Jennifer's Body

Described by director Karyn Kusama (‘Girlfight’) as ‘a tribute to the fierce power of oestrogen’, this coming-of-age horror comedy...

Fantastic Mr Fox

Wes Anderson thrillingly mixes Roald Dahl's England with Upper East Side New York

Up

The animation studio that can do no wrong (Pixar) release yet another uplifting gem


Critics' choice

Bright Star

Bright Star

Jane Campion’s breezy and beautiful film about the last days of John Keats

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

Doc that charts the development of French filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1964 folly

We Live in Public

Ondi Timoner, director of ‘DiG!’, returns with this eye-opening profile of internet entrepreneur Josh Harris

An Education

Lone Scherfig's ‘Fish Tank’ for the suburbs rides on a superb performance from Carey Mulligan

Love Exposure

Sono Shion’s four-hour countercultural romantic epic is the ‘Gone with the Wind’ de nos jours

The Cove

Doc meets espionage thriller in this attempt to put an end to a brutal Japanese dolphin cull

Thirst

Park Chan-Wook throws out the vampire clichés in this this operatic study of lust and desire

Triangle

Melissa George heads on the cruise ship from hell on this seabound horror thriller


News & Features

A gateway to all things 'New Moon'

A gateway to all things 'New Moon'

In anticipation of 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon', Time Out is offering the chance to pick up a limited edition pack with three exclusive magazines

Ang Lee talks 'Taking Woodstock'

Ang Lee talks to Tom Huddleston about his tale of the men behind history’s greatest music festival

Roland Emmerich's guide to disaster movies

Emmerich gives David Jenkins tips on creating the perfect global catastrophe

The Coen brothers discuss 'A Serious Man'

Masters of contrary comedy, Joel and Ethan Coen have struck gold again with their latest, ‘A Serious Man’

Grant Heslov: interview

The director of 'The Men who Stare at Goats' talks about his old pal George Clooney and his memories of working on 'Happy Days'

Michael Haneke: The man behind the menace

From Cannes to Munich to London, Dave Calhoun tours Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winner, 'The White Ribbon'

How Jane Campion brought John Keats back to life

Time Out gets Romantic with the ‘difficult’ New Zealander about her new film 'Bright Star'

Time Out's 50 greatest directorial debuts

Time Out lists the 50 finest, most fully formed debuts of all time



Classic Film Club

Classic Film Club: 'Grave of the Fireflies'

Classic Film Club: 'Grave of the Fireflies'

Each week Tom Huddleston watches a classic film he's never seen before. This week: Isao Takahata's 'Grave of the Fireflies'


Ten spot

Cinema's best stand-ups

Cinema's best stand-ups

As 'Funny People' hits cinemas, Adam Lee Davies looks back over a century of cinematic stand-ups

Cinema's craziest car chases

With the release of petrol-head actioner 'Fast & Furious', Time Out look back over some of cinema's craziest car chases

Bad dog movies

The crazy mutt in 'Marley and Me' got Time Out thinking about some other bad dog movies...

Footlight follies - films ripe to be made into musicals

Time Out offers some suggestions for films that that could be given the Broadway treatment


London cinemas

London's first in-store cinema

London's first in-store cinema

Later this month, Wimbledon will play host to the country’s first in-store cinema. Dave Calhoun was given an exclusive guided tour

The best film quizzes in London

David Jenkins puts aside his well-thumbed film encyclopedia and rounds up the city’s best film quizzes

Outdoor film screenings in London 2009

Our guide to the best places to see films outside in London this summer.

The essential guide to filmgoing in London

Hate popcorn? Like to drink wine in the cinema? Need Bollywood? Love short films? We present Time Out’s essential guide to London filmgoing





Blogs and videos

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Competition

Review a Coens' movie and win!

Review a Coens' movie and win!

A signed copy of the script for 'A Serious Man' is up for grabs, and we want you to look to your inner film reviewer to win it

Hippies who work for The Man

Hippies who work for The Man

To celebrate George Clooney comedy 'The Men who Stare at Goats', we look back at six memorable onscreen hippies who fought the system from within

Ten inspirations behind 'Avatar'?

Ten inspirations behind 'Avatar'?

As a new trailer for James Cameron's highly-anticipated CG space-opera 'Avatar' is released, Time Out ponders what the influences behind the film might have been




List

Time Out's 50 greatest animated films, with added commentary by Terry Gilliam

Time Out's 50 greatest animated films, with added commentary by Terry Gilliam

In celebration of the release of Pixar's 'Up' and Wes Anderson's 'Fantastic Mr Fox', read our rundown of fifty classic feature length animations


Profile

Sam Rockwell: a life in film

Sam Rockwell: a life in film

Sam Rockwell shows us his acting mettle in 'Moon', but isn't it high time he made it on to the Hollywood A-list?

Nicolas Cage: a life in film

Nicolas Cage: a life in film

To celebrate the release of his latest movie, 'Knowing', Time Out takes a look at the enduring box office appeal of Nicolas Cage