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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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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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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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MICHAEL HANEKE COLLECTION
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A collection of seven films from Michael Haneke, "perhaps the most important European filmmaker currently active" (Robin Wood, Artforum). Included: The Seventh Continent (Austria, 1989, 104 mins., German with English subtitles), the obsessive tale of a ordinary family's cosmic and suicidal indifference; Benny's Video (Austria, 1992, 105 mins., French with English subtitles), the second film in the director's "glaciation trilogy;" 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Austria, 1994, 95 mins., Fren ch with English subtitles), a formally rigorous work comprised of 71 film tableaux and the third film in the trilogy; Funny Games (Austria, 1997, 108 mins., German with English subtitles), an unnerving, controversial exploration of violence that won Haneke Best Director at the 1997 Chicago International Film Festival; The Castle (Germany/Austria, 1997, 123 mins., German with English subtitles), an austere interpretation of Franz Kafka's novel, Code Unknown (France, 2000, 113 mins., French with English subtitles), starring Juliette Binoche in a complex tale of four lives intersecting; and lastly The Piano Teacher (Austria/France, 2001, 125 mins., French with English subtitles), a challenging adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek's novel which won honors for Best Actress (Isabelle Huppert), Best Michael Haneke---Austria/Germany/France---1989-2001---773 mins.
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PIANO TEACHER (UNRATED)
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Michael Haneke's challenging adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek's novel won honors for Best Actress (Isabelle Huppert), Best Actor (Benoit Magimel) and the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Huppert portrays a single, middle-aged piano teacher whose lonely, unhappy existence includes voyeuristic activities and self-mutilation. Pursued by a talented musician (Magimel), she enters into a disturbing relationship of violent, masochistic sexuality. "...watching Huppert, a great actress tearing into a landmark role, is riveting" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). In French with English Michael Haneke---France/Austria---2001---130 mins.
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SEVENTH CONTINENT
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This challenging, widely acclaimed film by Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke is based on a true story. It charts the unusual progress of a family that seems utterly conventional: life holds no challenge or interest for them--they simply go through the motions of living. The Seventh Continent unsentimentally records their descent into despair and joint suicide. Modern life emerges as the ultimate culprit in this obsessive tale of extreme indifference. In German with English subtitles. Michael Haneke---Austria---1989---111 mins.
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TIME OF THE WOLF (HANEKE)
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Isabelle Huppert is riveting as a mother who guides her children to a train station outpost in this apocalyptic vision of Western society.
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WHITE RIBBON, THE
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Michael Haneke earned the Golden Palm at Cannes for directing this imposing black-and-white film about a German village plagued by violent events.
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