Screen and Stage
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27 January 20123Politiken Copenhagen
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20 January 20121Público Lisbon
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10 January 20121Aftonbladet Stockholm
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19 September 2011Postimees Tallinn
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2 September 20111The Guardian London
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29 August 20113NRC Handelsblad Rotterdam
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22 August 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita
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Theatre
New talent comes from the East
27 May 2011Polityka Warsaw -
26 May 2011PresseuropDagens Nyheter
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Cannes film festival
Lars von Trier steps over the line
20 May 20113PresseuropBerlingske Tidende -
8 March 2011El País Madrid
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10 February 2011Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
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United Kingdom
The King’s Speech – a national fairy tale
21 January 2011The Guardian London -
30 November 2010PresseuropLa Stampa
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13 September 2010PresseuropLibération
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Comedy
Funny foreigners
20 August 2010The Guardian London -
9 August 2010PresseuropEvenimentul zilei
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Cinema
Europe sweet-talks Hollywood
9 August 2010Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
9 July 2010El Correo Bilbao
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A town in Europe
Oberammergau, a passion for the Passion
2 June 2010Die Zeit Hamburg -
18 May 2010PresseuropJyllands-Posten
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Cannes 2010
Rome snubs film festival
10 May 2010PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Cinema
A Prophet, language is power
1 March 20102The Guardian London -
European of the Week
Agata Buzek, not just daddy's girl?
19 February 2010Polska The Times Warsaw -
11 February 2010PresseuropDer Tagesspiegel
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10 February 2010De Standaard Brussels
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27 January 2010Svenska Dagbladet Stockholm
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European of the Week
Eric Cantona : striker universalis
26 January 2010Le Monde Paris -
11 November 2009PresseuropDe Volkskrant
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20 October 2009PresseuropLidové noviny
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Comedy
Yes, we kann
11 September 2009Cafebabel.com Paris -
Documentary
Filming the forgotten frontier
4 September 2009Cafebabel.com Paris -
Romania
For the love of Dacia
28 August 2009PresseuropCotidianul -
Germany
Making a drama out of the crisis
27 August 20091Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Animation film
Putting Belgium back together again
22 July 2009PresseuropLe Soir -
The Stage
All the world's a train station
22 July 2009Die Zeit Hamburg -
Obituary
Pina Bausch, the final curtain
1 July 2009PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
22 June 2009Die Presse Vienna
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10 June 2009PresseuropNeue Zürcher Zeitung
Can the radical manifesto of the killer of Oslo and Utøya really be staged? A theatre project in Copenhagen has raised strong protests in Norway and Denmark. But hearing the words of Breivik’s Manifesto 2083 is vital for understanding our times, responds its director, Christian Lollike. 
At a time when the drive for austerity has led most countries to cut back on cultural budgets, the Danish film industry remains one of the most successful in Europe thanks to a pro-active policy of grants and support for young film makers. 
Is this a racist movie? Ruben Östlund’s latest film — a story of poor black and middle class white children which deliberate plays on the audience’s prejudices — has sparked controversy in Sweden. 
Since independence, Estonian film makers appear to be incapable of producing anything other than films where melancholy plays the leading role, remarks Postimees, which argues that a certain dolefulness has become the hallmark of culture made in Estonia. 
Are the brilliantly strange films of Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari a product of Greece's economic turmoil? And will they continue to make films in this troubled country? 
The opera, The Mute Girl of Portici, has been a symbol of Belgian unity since 1830. But to see it staged today, you have to go to Paris, because in Brussels it could arouse political controversy. 
Europe has lost six great names in the performing arts, but their succession is assured by a new generation of directors, most of whom hail from Central and Eastern Europe. 
Seven Oscars and eight Palmes d'Or in 10 years: the results of the MEDIA programme that has subsidised film production in Europe are largely positive. But now the funding is on the chopping block – to the dismay of filmmakers, who have started a petition. 
A film by a German director about the Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky was to premiere at the Berlinale. But it’s been stolen – and the director is afraid. 
Hotly tipped for the Oscars, the newly released film confirms that World War 2 is now creation myth number one for Britons – and the Queen their only living connection to it. 
Heard the one about the German, the Italian and the Norwegian? They are all reinventing comedy in English by playing on nuances in their own languages 
For years, European film boards have been competing with offers of tax breaks and subsidies to lure major US film producers to their studios. France is the latest country to adopt such a strategy, but it still lacks the appropriate infrastructure. 
Take eight illiterate gitanas to perform a play by the great Spanish poet. The point of this experiment in Seville is to take at least the barb of artistic exclusion out of social segregation: a subject of debate for the European Encounters series at the Avignon Summer Festival. 
For nearly four centuries, the inhabitants of this Bavarian village have performed a Passion Play every ten years to ward off the danger of the plague: a highly colourful event, which attracts tourists from all over the world. 
Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet has swept the board at France’s Césars, and looks set to win the Oscar for best foreign language film. One of its lessons is that in a fast-paced globalised world, the future belongs to those who can master two, or even three, languages. 
Voted one of the year’s ten best European actors at the Berlinale, the Polish film actress is chalking up one high-profile part after another – in life as on the silver screen. Agata, daughter of European Parliament president Jerzy Buzek, is making a first name for herself.
While too unrefined and exotic for the Flemish, and sometimes shown without subtitles, Turkish movies often draw bigger crowds in Belgium than even American or homegrown productions, thanks to a limited but avid audience. A report from De Standaard. 
In the wake of a successful initiative by the New York Metropolitan Opera, national opera companies are increasingly relaying live performances to cinemas across Europe. Svenska Dagbladet waxes lyrical about the new technique which will boost accessibility to high culture.
Having played himself in Ken Loach's Looking for Eric, the former star of Manchester United is now preparing to take on a leading role in a major Parisian theatre production. Le Monde presents a portrait of a legendary footballer who has found a new career as a sensitive and committed artist. 
Comic characters like Bruno, Germany's Horst Schlämmer, and France's President of Groland, are increasingly blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality. This is doubly true now that Horst Schlämmer, AKA Hape Kerkerling threatened to run in the upcoming German elections. A cafebabel.com report. 
Café Babel interviews Berlin-based French students Simon Brunel and Nicolas Pannetier, directors of The Inner Border, a documentary that travels along the former Iron Curtain in search of those whose lives were shaped by the now defunct and once forbidding boundary line. 
If there is one sector that is going strong in Germany and Austria in these days of dearth and doldrums, it is the theatre. The crisis furnishes a wealth of material for stage portrayals of human foibles and troubles in the grip of global capitalism. 
For 80 days, German, Turkish, Romanian, Croatian, Serb and Slovenian actors have been criss-crossing Europe on a train transmogrified into a theatre-on-wheels. The object of this project launched by the Stuttgart National Theatre is "to foster understanding between nations". Easier said than done, says a journalist from Die Zeit, who boarded the train for the stretch from Istanbul to Bucharest. 
After Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen is back as Bruno, the notoriously camp Austrian fashion journalist. The marketing campaign for his latest mockumentary is in full swing, but Austrians are less than amused by the negative national image the film conveys.