Michael Haneke

Michael Haneke, the Austrian director of such unsparing thrillers as “The Piano Teacher” and “Funny Games”, is to make his first television series. The producers of the hit German series “Deutschland 83” about a sleeper Stasi...

News Hour: Sofia Coppola’s Civil War thriller “The Beguiled” starring Nicole Kidman and “Happy End” by Austria’s Michael Haneke starring French icon Isabelle Huppert are among the 18 films picked to compete in Cannes, organisers said...