I have just added this entry to my list of the 100 Greatest Films from Germany, Scandinavia, Finland and Austria, which you will find in two parts elsewhere on this site. Whether it is indeed the first feature-length animated film, Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed, largely the work of avant-garde artist Charlotte (“Lotte”) Reiniger, then […]

Written and directed by Belgium’s Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Rosetta (1999) and L’enfant (2005) have both won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Prior to that, the brothers won the Cannes directorial prize for The Promise. (In the U.S., it won best film prizes from the National Society of Film Critics, and the Los Angeles and […]