The Toronto International Film Festival has withdrawn the film “Sparta” following allegations of on-set impropriety and child exploitation against Austrian director Ulrich Seidl.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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richie Bravo, the aging Austrian lounge singer shambling his way through Ulrich Seidl’s grimly fascinating new movie, “Rimini,” ...

“Why does a person go on holiday just to shoot an animal? What is the motivation behind it?” Ulrich Seidl, Austrian director and master of grotesque documentary, still doesn’t have a definitive answer ...

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 ...

Corpulent sex slaves, tuba-playing Nazi obsessives, reborn doll fantasists — just a regular stroll through the neighborhood, then, for patented guru of the grotesque Ulrich Seidl, who makes an ...

“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 ...

Anyone seeking a peek into Ulrich Seidl’s worldview–perhaps his soul–could do worse than Rimini, his first film since Safari in 2016 and first narrative feature in almost a decade. It swells with ...

"We apologize for any inconvenience," the Toronto Film Festival said on Friday ahead of the debut for the pedophilia drama. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief Austrian director Ulrich Seidl’s Sparta ...

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 ...

Austrian director Ulrich Seidl makes a habit of blurring boundaries: his documentaries include staged scenes, and his dramas feature nonprofessional actors who are sometimes playing versions of ...

His subjects, European tourists, make the journey to Namibia to hunt big game, such as zebras and giraffes. At the hunting lodge, Seidl searches the guests for reasons why these otherwise normal ...

Austrian director Ulrich Seidl makes a habit of blurring boundaries: his documentaries include staged scenes, and his dramas feature nonprofessional actors who are sometimes playing versions of ...