Premiering at the Venice Film Festival in 2001, Austrian director Ulrich Seidl’s “Dog Days” won the grand jury prize for its unflinching portrayal of social ennui in suburban Vienna. Enervated by the ...

Richie Bravo, the aging Austrian lounge singer shambling his way through Ulrich Seidl’s grimly fascinating new movie, “Rimini,” sure knows his way around a crummy hotel. By day or night you might find ...

“Never have I looked so directly into hell,” remarked Werner Herzog after viewing Austrian provocateur Ulrich Seidl’s “Animal Love,” one of 6 films screening at Anthology Film Archives in New York as ...

The San Sebastian Film Festival is pushing on with a competition screening of Austrian director Ulrich Seidl’s new film Sparta, following a report in German magazine Der Spiegel raising concerns about ...

The Toronto International Film Festival abruptly withdrew the German-language drama “Sparta” from its lineup ahead of its planned Friday world premiere after the film’s Austrian director, Ulrich Seidl ...

The Toronto International Film Festival has withdrawn the film “Sparta” following allegations of on-set impropriety and child exploitation against Austrian director Ulrich Seidl. “Sparta” was due to ...

Taken together, Ulrich Seidl’s three Paradise films will be hard to beat this year for sheer art-house scald. Seidl has a relentless vision, but one worth reckoning with, especially now that he has ...

It’s been a rocky year for Ulrich Seidl. As far back as last February, Rimini was winning over critics at the Berlinale (us included) with its bleak beauty and frankly stunning central turn from ...

The pic was scheduled to have its world premiere Friday at 12:15 p.m. local time at TIFF Bell Lightbox. A TIFF representative tells Deadline tonight, “New information has been presented to TIFF about ...

German film festival Filmfest Hamburg has scrapped its plan to give the Douglas Sirk Prize to the Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, following allegations of on-set impropriety and child exploitation ...

Richie Bravo, the aging Austrian lounge singer shambling his way through Ulrich Seidl’s grimly fascinating new movie, “Rimini,” sure knows his way around a crummy hotel. By day or night you might find ...