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NICOLE RIVELLIMichael Pitt, left, and Tim Roth in "Funny Games." Funny Games (R) Warner Independent Pictures (108 min.) Directed by Michael Haneke. With Naomi Watts, Tim Roth. Now playing in New York.

The filmmaker toys with viewers’ expectations, and they expect no less “Daring” and “dangerous,” “sensual” and “savage,” “brutal” and “brilliant” — these are only some ...

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 ...

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: 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 ...

By this point, to Haneke’s reptilian delight, Funny Games becomes nearly unbearable. “Anyone who leaves the cinema doesn’t need the film,” he said in 1997.

There, I’ve just spared you having to sit through nearly two hours of Michael Haneke’s hectoring “Funny Games,” where he wants to teach the audience that very lesson.

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 only ...

Michael Haneke wanted to provoke American auds with his “Funny Games” redo — and by all accounts he has succeeded. Critics have railed at the shot-by-shot remake, pointedly questioning the ...

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.