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71 FRAGMENTS OF A CHRONOLOGY
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The third film in Michael Haneke's provocative "glaciation trilogy" (Benny's Video, The Seventh Continent) is a profoundly disquieting reflection on the numbing nature of modern life. The formally rigorous work is comprised of 71 film tableaux, including clips of an Austrian student's shooting spree, a homeless man's travels through Vienna, and a young couple's struggles with their newly adopted daughter. Each of these snippets is jumbled and presented out of context, with the persistent presence of a TV newscast shadowing the events in an eerie, foreboding manner. Reminiscent of Haneke's excellent, later work Code Unknown, this film remains "one of the most challenging narrative works of the 1990s" (Senses of Cinema). In French Michael Haneke---Austria/Germany---1994---95 mins.
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ANIMAL LOVE
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The bond between humans and their pets is the subject of Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl's latest documentary, and his meticulous study yields darkly comical and troubling insight into issues of intimacy, loneliness, and emotional sublimation. Seidl doesn't cut any corners to portray his subjects in a flattering light - his portraits are fascinating but also disturbing and often grotesque. Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Toronto Film Festival. In German with English subtitles. Ulrich Seidl---Austria---1996---114 mins.
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ANTARES
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Three individuals weather uncertainty and a loss of purpose in this critically acclaimed film--Austria's 2005 submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. A nurse (Petra Morze), a checkout girl (Susanne Wuest) and a real-estate agent (Andreas Kiendl) search for companionship, love, and some semblance of happiness in this film from Gotz Spielmann. In German and Croatian with English subtitles.
Gotz Spielmann---Austria---2004---120 mins.
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BENNY'S VIDEO
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Michael Haneke directs this chilling portrait of a 14-year-old boy obsessed with mediated experience--action movies, surveillance footage, and worse.
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CASTLE, THE (HANEKE)
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Haneke's adaptation of Kafka's last, unfinished novel is a dutifully complex and appropriately alienating work of near genius. In an austere, dystopian world, a surveyor known only as "K" (Ulrich Muehe, The Lives of Others) is summoned to a distant village by "The Castle," which refers to both the local government and its allegorical mountain stronghold. However, the villagers scoff at his title and Castle authorities only assist K by running him through absurd bureaucratic twaddle. Originally aired on Austrian TV as Das Schloss. With Susanne Lothar (The Piano Teacher). In German Michael Haneke---Germany/Austria---1997---123 mins.
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CODE UNKNOWN
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Juliette Binoche stars in Michael Haneke's challenging film about the intersecting lives (and backstories) of several characters involved in one confrontation.
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COUNTERFEITERS, THE
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This "swift and suspenseful thriller" (The New York Times) from Austrian-born filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky recounts the true story of a group of concentration camp prisoners who are given relatively luxurious accommodations in exchange for operating the grandest counterfeiting scheme of all-time. Conflicts soon arise within the group over their complicity in prolonging the German war effort just to save their own skins. Starring Karl Markovics, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, and August Diehl as real-life counterfeiter Adolf Burger, whose memoir provided the basis for this 2007 Academy Award-winning Best Foreign-Language Film. In German, Russian, and Stefan Ruzowitzky---Austria/Germany---2007---99 mins.
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DAISY CHAIN
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The original title, Das Liebeskarussell, must be German for "weird episodic erotica," because that's what you're getting here. Catherine Deneuve, Anita Ekberg, Nadja Tiller, Ivan Desny, Leticia Roman, Friedrich von Thun, and Gert Frobe unsheathe things and bare stuff in four sexually-charged segments: "Sybill," "Angela," "Lolita," and "Dorothea." All are accompanied by the occasionally humorous commentary of a "Beverly Hills psychiatrist." Rolf Thiele/Axel von Ambesser/Alfred Weidenmann---Austria---1965---90 mins.
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DIE ANFRAU (GERMAN)
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A rare, very early Austrian film, based on the 19th-century German play by Franz Grillparzer. "It is one of the so-called fate-tragedies, in such vogue at the time, and, though crude and full of horrors, it shows unmistakable signs of dramatic power" (The Catholic Encyclopedia). Liane Haid and Karl Ehmann are the top-billed stars. Silent with German titles and original Jacob Fleck/Luise Fleck---Austria---1919---50 mins.
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DOG DAYS
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The unrated director's cut of Ulrich Seidl's film about devastated lives in a Vienna suburb during a summer heat wave. Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice.
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EDUKATORS
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Hans Weingartner's sleek and original thriller follows a pair of young radicals (Daniel Bruhl and Stipe Erceg) as they attempt to charm the lovely and impressionable Jule (Julia Jentsch) by employing her in a variety of night-time break-ins. Emboldened by their successes, the friends kidnap a wealthy businessman and soon find themselves neck-deep in danger. "...a terrific movie that boasts intelligent wit, expert storytelling, delightful characters and grown-up dialogue plus suspense and a wicked surprise ending" (The Hollywood Reporter). In German with English subtitles. Hans Weingartner---Austria---2004---124 mins.
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FALCO: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN 80'S POP ICON
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Since VH1's Behind the Music series never took up Falco, the Austrian one-hit wonder responsible for "Rock Me Amadeus," we're glad filmmaker Thomas Roth filled the void with this surprising biopic. Though Falco (aka Johann Holzel) died in 1998 at the age of 40 after a severe car accident, his name and music still live on in ironic, yet often loving, references and tributes by popular bands, DJs, TV shows, and so on. Starring Manuel Rubey, Nicholas Ofczarek, and Christian Tramitz. Also known as Falco: Damn It, We're Still Alive! In German with English subtitles.
Thomas Roth---Austria/Germany---2008---109 mins.
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FALLING (BARBARA ALBERT)
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Austrian filmmaker Barbara Albert directs this bittersweet drama about former classmates who reunite to attend a teacher's funeral. "The Big Chill...in German!"
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FREE RADICALS (B.ALBERT)
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Barbara Albert's ensemble drama explores the seemingly random interactions that occur between individuals connected to Manu, an Austrian woman who miraculously survives a plane crash to die years later in a banal and unexpected auto accident. Engrossed by questions of fate and chance, Albert crafts a rich character mosaic in the tradition of Robert Altman and P.T. Anderson's Magnolia. An intelligent, viscerally intellectual exercise in ensemble acting and associative montage, enlivened with some terrific visual and dramatic ideas" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice). In German with English Barbara Albert---Austria---2003---120 mins.
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FUNNY GAMES (1997)
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A wealthy couple and their son arrive at their summer home and find themselves at the mercy of a pair of inexplicably calm and cruel young men.
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FUNNY GAMES (2007)
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Self-reflexive, nihilistic, and unflinching, Haneke's Americanized remake of his own 1997 thriller repelled critics across the political spectrum.
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GEBURTIG
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The past catches up with two men, a Jewish emigrant composer Hermann Geburtig and the German journalist Konrad Sachs, in this award-winning tale. While Geburtig is being persuaded by a Viennese journalist to return to his hometown and give evidence in court against a former concentration camp supervisor, Sachs is forced to finally face the agonizing reality that he is the son of a high-ranking SS doctor. In German with English subtitles. Lukas Stepanik/Robert Schindel---Austria---2002---100 mins.
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GOD DOES NOT BELIEVE IN US ANY
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The first part of Axel Corti's acclaimed Where To and Back trilogy, an ambitious dramatic chronicle of the effects of World War II and the Nazi regime on Austria. Armin Mueller-Stahl tops the cast in this story of a Viennese Jewish refugee, a Nazi army deserter, and a Czech relief worker and their attempts to find a route to a safe port in 1938. Made with deliberate understatement that respects the reality of the scenario it portrays, this is a powerful first act to the trilogy. Followed by Santa Fe and Welcom e in Vienna. In German with English subtitles. Axel Corti---Austria---1981---110 mins.
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IMPORT EXPORT
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Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl directs Import/Export, a bleak drama about a pair of struggling young adults living on either end of Europe. Olga (Ekateryna Rak), a single mother and nurse, is barely eking out an existence for her and her child in a depressed Ukrainian town. One day she snaps and sets off to find better wages in Vienna. Conversely, Pauli (Paul Hofmann), a knuckle-dragger from Vienna who can't keep down a job, agrees to help his step-father make deliveries across Eastern Europe, including Ukraine. Ultimately, the characters' hopes for fresh starts and brighter futures are short lived. In German, Slovak, and Russian with English subtitles.
Ulrich Seidl---Austria---2007---141 mins.
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INHERITORS (BANNERT)
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Walter Bannert exposes the terrifying resurgence of neo-fascist groups as 16-year-old Thomas is drawn into a neo-Nazi youth group in contemporary Austria. Winner of numerous festival prizes, The Inheritors is a terrifying psychological study. "Extraordinary, strong and perceptive" (New York Post). In German with English subtitles. Walter Bannert---Austria---1984---89 mins.
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