The Uses of Guilt: The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia edited by Ben...
There’s a scene in Michael Haneke’s Code Unknown (2000) that epitomises both the brilliance and the frustrations that mark his entire body of work. It takes place on the Parisian Métro, where a woman...
View ArticleLove, Death, Truth – Amour
Once again, Michael Haneke gives us a story about Georges and Anne, the bourgeois couple that, in various incarnations, has populated his films since the 1980s. (1) In Amour (2012) they are two...
View ArticleWelcome to Issue 65 of our journal
What an odd event the European Film Awards is. Recently broadcast, the European Film Awards this year celebrated its Silver Jubilee edition. Like the Eurovision Song Contest, it has a revolving door...
View ArticleDo the Right Thing: the Films of Michael Haneke
Fragmented yet logical, estranging yet compassionate, Haneke's films find new ways to dramatise and diagnose contemporary alienation. The post Do the Right Thing: the Films of Michael Haneke appeared...
View ArticleBetween Action and Repression: The Piano Teacher
Haneke's latest film takes us to the limits of empathy in its analysis of sexual dysfunction and the repressions of high culture. The post Between Action and Repression: <em>The Piano...
View ArticleFunny Games
Funny Games (1997 Austria 103 mins) Source: Bavarian Films Prod Co: Wega Film Prod: Vit Heiduschka Dir, Scr: Michael Haneke Phot: Jürgen Jürges Ed: Andreas Prochaska Prod Des: Christoph Kanter Mus:...
View ArticleThe Seventh Continent
The Seventh Continent/Der Siebente Kontinent (1989 Austria 104 mins) Source: Bavaria Films Prod Co: Wega Film Prod: Veit Heiduschka Dir, Scr: Michael Haneke Phot: Anton Peschke Ed: Marie Homolkova Art...
View ArticleThe Time of the Wolf
The Time of the Wolf/Le Temps du loup (2003 France/Austria/Germany 110 mins) Source: Bavaria Films Prod Co: ARTE/Bavaria Films/CNC/Eurimages/France 3 Cinéma/Le Studio Canal+/Les Films du Losange/Wega...
View ArticleModern Times: Notes Toward a Reading of Michael Haneke’s 71 Fragments of a...
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994 Austria 96 mins) Source: Bavaria Films Prod Co: Wega Film Prod: Vit Heiduschka Dir, Scr: Michael Haneke Phot: Jürgen Jürges Ed: Marie Homolkova Prod Des:...
View ArticleCode inconnu: Récit incomplete de divers voyages
Code inconnu: Récit incomplete de divers voyages (2000 France 118 mins) Source: CNC Prod Co: ARTE France Cinéma/Bavaria Films/Filmex/Les Films Alain Sarde/France 2 Cinéma/MK2 Productions/Romanian...
View ArticleHidden’s Disinherited Children
A thorough examination of Michael Haneke’s troubling film about the sins of the past and their effects on the present. The post <em>Hidden</em>’s Disinherited Children appeared first on...
View ArticleMichael Haneke’s Cinema: The Ethic of the Image by Catherine Wheatley
Michael Haneke, the Austrian director who has crossed national boundaries to make films in France, the US and now in Germany with Das weisse Band (The White Ribbon, 2009) – newly crowned with the Palme...
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