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 to teach ...

“Daring” and “dangerous,” “sensual” and “savage,” “brutal” and “brilliant” — these are only some of the alliterative adjectives that pepper the trailer for Michael Haneke’s first American film, Funny ...

A nice lady (Naomi Watts) and her caddies (Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet) Briefly described, Funny Games presents the ultimate bourgeois nightmare. A picture-perfect family retreats to their ...

The latest by Europe’s philosopher of violence, Michael Haneke, whose Benny’s Video (1992) was a mixed blessing at best. If you’re the sort of person who complains about violence in movies, don’t even ...

Michael Haneke’s decision to recreate his film Funny Games and release it as his English-language debut is one of the strangest gambits in recent commercial American cinema. Haneke’s latest ...

MK2 Films has acquired films by Michael Haneke, Ang Lee and Xavier Dolan as part of its strategy to reposition auteur ...

(indieWIRE/ 12.04.01) — There’s a moment in Michael Haneke‘s 1997 film, “Funny Games,” when a distraught mother blasts a shotgun shell into one of the two sadistic intruders who have kept her family ...

Everyone has those formative movie moments. Maybe it’s a movie that filled you with awe. Maybe the movie filled you with dread. Or, perhaps, the movie challenged you in a way you weren’t used to. Such ...