Articles tagged "michael haneke"

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Michael Haneke offers an English version of ‘Funny Games’

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[14.Mar.08] :. When directors decide to remake one of their own films, it is usually because there was something about the first version that they felt could be improved. Alfred Hitchcock gave his 1934...

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Funny Games

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Mar.08] :. Michael Haneke's scene for scene remake of his own 1997 film, Funny Games, appears to be premised on displeasure.

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Caché (Hidden) (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jun.06] :. Michael Haneke's movies are never easy. Instead, they set out complex, multi-layered problems, encountered by ordinary-seeming characters, sometimes worked out but more usually left unresolved.

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Caché (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jan.06] :. Caché is Michael Haneke's latest unsettling look at the shaky foundations of bourgeois security.

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Time of the Wolf (Le Temps du loup) (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Feb.05] :. In Michael Haneke's version of the end of the world, things are different.

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Time of the Wolf (2003)

by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

[15.Jul.04] :. In Time of the Wolf, a family vacationing in the French countryside is split apart by shocking violence and faced with unspeakable horrors.

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The Piano Teacher (2001)

by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

[4.Apr.02] :. Haneke's films challenge not only media violence, but also unsuccessful satires of media violence, like Oliver Stone's indulgent, bloodily hedonistic 'Natural Born Killers'.