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By Daniel D'Addario 12/11/12 6:34pm

The Transom

Michael Haneke

Haneke Puts On His Amour

The Austrian director Michael Haneke is in a very exclusive club, having won the Palme d’Or for best picture at the Cannes Film Festival for both of his last two films, the Nazi allegory The White Ribbon (2009) and the end-of-life drama Amour, which will be released in the U.S. this month. Late in his career—Mr. Haneke is 70—the onetime provocateur (whose earlier films contained graphic violence and a strong sense of dread) has come to be embraced by the critical establishment. Amour, and its 85-year-old lead actress, Emmanuelle Riva, are considered front-runners in the coming Oscar race. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 12/10/12 8:00am

The Eight-Day Week

"Portlandia" star Carrie Brownstein (Getty Images)

To Do Monday: Portland on the Hudson

Portland—the one in the Northwest, not the one to our north where our friends have that charming beach house—is a little like Brooklyn and a little like a nursery school full of adults. Or at least that’s what we’ve been led to believe from two seasons of Portlandia, the sketch show that takes on Oregonian hipster/layabout culture, from its obsession with organics (we East Coast urbanites can relate!) to its disdain for anything even remotely corporate (what are they talking about?!). Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 12/09/12 9:00am

The Eight-Day Week

To Do Sunday: Gifted Performers

Tonight, a group of actors will celebrate the season with a show that benefits their colleagues. The cabaret Feinstein’s at Loews Regency puts on “My Gift of Thanks,” a revue of holiday songs performed by past Broadway players from A Little Night Music, Million Dollar Quartet and little cheerleading-musical-that-could Bring It On. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 12/07/12 8:30am

The Eight-Day Week

Gentleman Norman

To Do Saturday: Dog Days of Winter

It’s a big day for the city’s pampered pups—and the very social humans who love them! The Santa Paws event at the Ink48 Hotel will give dachshunds and schnauzers alike the chance to bond with Kris Kringle and ask the jolly gift-giver, in woofs and whimpers, to bring that special collar on the 25th… Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 12/07/12 8:00am

The Eight-Day Week

Malcolm Gladwell (Getty Images)

To Do Friday: Glad to See You

The New Yorker writer on trends in neuroscience who didn’t get in trouble this year continues to rake in the speaking engagements: Malcolm Gladwell drops by the Tropfest Roughcut Symposium today, a daylong event at which various notables discuss the art of film. Speakers joining Mr. Gladwell include Sofia Coppola’s film editor Sarah Flack and movie star Liev Schreiber (to either or both of whom Mr. Gladwell should talk about adapting some of his well-crafted anecdotes into a movie), as well as film criticism icon Lisa Schwarzbaum … Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 12/06/12 8:00am

The Eight-Day Week

Jane Friedman

To Do Thursday: Pub Crawl

Amid constant rumors about random pairs of major publishers merging, we’ve never felt more confused about the state of the industry. Tonight’s panel discussion at the Center for Jewish History won’t shed much new light on the matter, but at least it will remind us of the industry’s glorious history. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 12/05/12 12:18pm

Theatre

Kathie Lee Gifford (Drew Friedman)

The Anarchist, Scandalous Close on Broadway

Two shows are departing the Great White Way before the competitive holiday season even begins. Onetime Observer cover girl Kathie Lee Gifford is saying goodbye to her charismatic-Christian-themed passion project Scandalous, which will have played 31 previews and 29 regular performances when it says goodbye on Sunday. It departs this weekend, allowing Ms. Gifford to return her full energies to broadcasting the famously wine-drenched fourth hour of Today each morning.  Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 12/05/12 8:00am

The Eight-Day Week

Judd Apatow (Getty Images)

To Do Wednesday: Fairly Humorous

Today is the street date of the most anticipated Vanity Fair cover since Jennifer Aniston announced that, yes, she did want kids. Judd Apatow has guest-edited the glossy rag (it’s sort of like when Roseanne guest-edited The New Yorker, but five times as long and far more self-serious), presumably commissioning photo spreads of his coterie Read More