Friday, August 12 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 4: Samuel Fuller - John Huston
On our fourth day, this journey through the 100 Essential Film Directors continues to twist and turn in unexpected ways. From bold, opinionated Hollywood voices to those who essentially created the language of cinema, today will shed light on kings of genre like Samuel Fuller, through lions like the legendary John Huston.
Tuesday, July 13 2010
The Tangled, Trailing Tale of ‘The White Ribbon’
A la Village of the Damned, the children of this village are a strange breed, suspiciously always present at the scenes of the savage crimes.
Funny Games
Michael Haneke's scene for scene remake of his own 1997 film, Funny Games, appears to be premised on displeasure.
Wednesday, June 28 2006
Caché (Hidden) (2005)
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.
Friday, January 6 2006
Caché (2005)
Caché is Michael Haneke's latest unsettling look at the shaky foundations of bourgeois security.
Monday, February 7 2005
Time of the Wolf (Le Temps du loup) (2002)
In Michael Haneke's version of the end of the world, things are different.
Thursday, July 15 2004
Time of the Wolf (2003)
In Time of the Wolf, a family vacationing in the French countryside is split apart by shocking violence and faced with unspeakable horrors.
Thursday, April 4 2002
The Piano Teacher (2001)
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'.
