Oscar-winning “Amour” helmer to get Zurich Fest lifetime honorAugust 29, 2013 - 14:36 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Zurich International Film Festival will this year honor Oscar-winning director Michael Haneke with its A Tribute to… honor, the festival’s lifetime achievement award, The Hollywood Reporter said. Haneke, who won the best foreign language Oscar this year for Amour, a drama about love and dying, will attend Zurich to receive the award. Zurich will also screen a retrospective of Haneke’s work, including Amour, the Oscar-nominated and Palme d’Or-winning The White Ribbon, Funny Games, The Piano Teacher and Cache, in a retrospective titled "World Of Haneke." The Austrian filmmaker was born in Germany and raised outside of Vienna, Austria. The 9th annual Zurich Film Festival opens Sept. 26 with Ron Howard's Formula One racing drama Rush. Other gala premieres include Gravity from Alfonso Cuaron, Devil's Knot from Atom Egoyan and Robert Redford-starrer All is Lost from director J.C. Chandor. Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Putin congratulates Pashinyan’s birthday Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on his birthday on June 1. Opposition motorcade en route to Gyumri for large rally A motorcade of protesters headed by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is heading to the city of Gyumri. Ruling MPs, Foreign Minister talk Armenia-Azerbaijan processes MOs from the ruling Civil Contract party met with the Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in the Armenian parliament. Russia: Armenia’s frozen membership weakens CSTO position in Caucasus A Russian envoy said any step that could alienate the CSTO member states from each other is “deeply wrong”. |