Funny Games

...he fights to reclaim his home. The White Ribbon » In this year's Palme D'Or winner at Cannes, director Michael Haneke ("Cache," "Funny Games") tells a story of strange doings in a German village just before World War II -- and the abused...

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...hidden anxieties - tickling their sense of post-imperial guilt with films such as Hidden, or their fears of youth with Benny's Video and Funny Games. While middle England has the Daily Mail, art-house audiences have Haneke to scare them with...

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The White Ribbon (15) Running time: 144min By LARUSHKA IVAN-ZADEH - Friday, November 13, 2009 Michael Haneke's enigmatic follow-up to Funny Games is unsettling in a very different way. Shot in glacial black and white, it reports the...

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Michael Haneke's films are never a barrel of laughs, but at their best - and here I'm thinking of Hidden and his original version of Funny Games - they are masterpieces of story-telling, immaculately composed and edited, with a memorably...

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...a strange fellow. One year, he churns out a nasty, pointless and thoroughly mean-spirited shot-for-shot remake of his own sadistic thriller Funny Games, the next, he gives us The White Ribbon, a film so good it bears comparison with just about...

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...compositions and in the obliqueness of its meaning. Haneke may have pulled back a little from the provocative shock tactics of Funny Games, The Piano Teacher and Hidden, but he's replaced them with long, patience-testing moments...

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...in recent times; the eerily-apocalyptic Time of the Wolf (2003); Hidden (2005): leaving aside his misguided English-language remake of Funny Games, and sidestepping the question of whether it's possible to like a Haneke film - they can be so...

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...problematic. Haneke is also highly adept at creating psychological and emotional disturbance. His terrifying home invasion thriller, Funny Games, premiered in Cannes 12 years ago but it is hard to forget the ashen faces of some reporters as...

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...and the vicious circle of violence. The failure of the family unit to provide adequate support is once again brought into focus in Funny Games (1997). Another feature of his career is how his canvas has continued to grow and his...

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...movies even though, for the most part, I hate scary movies. What I'm saying is that I have already seen Funny Games. At least the original Funny Games of which this week's Hunt nominee is a remake. But sometimes in life, apparently, you have...

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