NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Foreign films predominate in the lineup of the New York Film Festival, announced Tuesday. The festival, which opens September 25, will showcase such European filmmakers as Michael Haneke ("The White Ribbon"), Alain Resnais (who will open the fest with his "Wild Grass"), Pedro Almodovar ("Broken Embraces") and Claire Denis ("White Material"). Only two U.S. directors ...

Alain Resnais, at 86 the grand old man of French cinema, was Sunday awarded a special prize for his half-century career at the Cannes film festival. The onetime "New Wave" icon returned to Cannes this year with the surreal-tinged romantic comedy "Wild Grasses", 50 years after he raised a storm with his arthouse hit "Hiroshima Mon Amour". About to turn ...

Awards presented Sunday at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, chosen by a jury headed by French Actress Isabelle Huppert: _Palme d'Or (Golden Palm): "The White Ribbon," by Michael Haneke (Austria) _Grand Prize: "A Prophet," by Jacques Audiard (France) _Jury Prize: "Fish Tank," by Andrea Arnold (Britain) and "Thirst," By Park ...