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You can catch several of Michael Haneke's best films streaming now as part of a new collection on The Criterion Channel.
Austrian director Michael Haneke (Caché, La Pianiste) made the original Funny Games in 1997 as a response to what the director considered to be the deplorable and irresponsible treatment of ...
But there’s more going on in Funny Games than a moral tirade against movie violence. Haneke is less concerned with violence as such than with movie consumers’ voyeuristic consumption of it.
Funny Games (R) Warner Independent Pictures (108 min.) Directed by Michael Haneke. With Naomi Watts, Tim Roth. Now playing in New York. ONE STAR Michael Haneke hates you. Oh, the director likes a ...
Michael Haneke wanted to provoke American auds with his "Funny Games" redo -- and by all accounts he has succeeded.
Funny Games: Thriller. Starring Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet. Directed by Michael Haneke. (R. 107 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) There's no denying Austrian director ...
Two years ago, I was the butt of Michael Haneke's sick joke. The folks at Kino Video sent me a package of the German director's pre-Cache features, among them Funny Games, which Haneke has now ...
Funny Games” is an unpleasant, unsettling and harrowing film that will send all but the strongest constitutions racing for the theater exits. It may also be some kind of horror masterpiece, n… ...
Michael Haneke ‘s 1997 “ Funny Games ” always seemed more like an instruction manual than a thriller, with the famously dyspeptic Austrian auteur hesitantly going through the genre motions ...
Euro helmer Michael Haneke’s almost shot-by-shot remake of his 1997 chiller “Funny Games U.S.” is as shocking and deliberately manipulative as the original movie.
Michael Haneke makes a point of not explaining the meaning behind his films, so it’s interesting to be seated at a table with him and invited to ask him questions, but knowing you probably won ...