Recommend me some Michael Haneke

It's possible if any of the baseball series end early, since I get in free w/member card. (Funny Games is the only pre-Code Unknown one I've seen.)

As much as I hate Haneke's stuff, I actually think most of his early movies are worth watching once.

I thought Caché was brilliant.

I might try this 2-part 4-hour TV epic Lemmings on Saturday, as '79 sounds like long enough ago that he was probably free of the recent bad habits.

http://moma.org/calendar/films.php?id=6249&ref=calendar

i know this is prob a long shot, but has anyone seen the german film "this very moment"

Funny Games is good but I'd steer clear of the American shot for shot remake by Haneke himself..Time Of The Wolf is mind blowing and terrifying..definetly don't watch late at night

Cannes goes bananas. "Tender" (???) but "grueling."

http://www.fandor.com/blog/cannes-2012-michael-haneke%e2%80%99s-amour/

https://twitter.com/Michael_Haneke

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I saw his four hour tv-miniseries Lemminge from 1979 today. Quite interesting. Thematically, seemed very of a piece with most of what he has done, even though there were a few scenes of true tenderness between young lovers, which is something very rarely seen further on. Filmically only minor things in place, a few jarring jumpcuts; some shocking violence, obliquely shown. Well and good. Haneke has apparantly made 11 tv-films - if the two-part Lemminge counts as two - but I think that with these two and The Castle, I'm not going to investigate it much further.

so should i see his adap of Kafka's The Castle?

http://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-castle/

It's just as absurd, amusing, and unfinished as the book.

It's bad!

I liked it better than a lot of his stuff, but I'm not a huge fan of his.

There you go morbs, yes/no/maybe. Take your pick.

Morbs - its not prime Haneke (made for TV), but as you don't like prime Haneke. It has a v good central performance (Ulrich Mühe)

i like a few, just not lately

btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr_U_cXgzBo

10-part English-lang TV series "set in a dystopian world"

http://deadline.com/2018/01/michael-haneke-first-tv-series-kelvins-book-fremantlemedia-ufa-fiction-1202270382/

Is Code Unknown good

It's great. It's my favourite Haneke.

Cool I might watch that tonight. Either that or L’eclisse

thanks for the recommendation, I enjoyed it quite a bit! I like The Piano Teacher more but that was great, and refreshingly optimistic

Over on The Current, @GarthGreenwell explores one of the quietest, most unassuming moments in Michael Haneke’s THE PIANO TEACHER (2001) and how it serves as a microcosm of his themes of control and sexuality: https://t.co/mZ3ssgYzu1 pic.twitter.com/i3W3BX2kCF

— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) May 13, 2019

i pretty much hated the original funny games. might be the first time i have strongly felt much much smarter than a filmmaker.

The Seventh Continent was quite something as a first film

One of those directors some of whose work I hate (Benny's Video) and love (71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance, but I haven't seen a lot of his biggest films yet.

Agreed. Stuff I hate (Benny's Video; Funny Games), stuff I love (Code Unknown; Cache; probably Time of the Wolf on re-watch), and really big ones I still haven't seen yet (The Piano Teacher; The White Ribbon).

No-one's yet explained to me why I should see Funny Games, a film apparently meant to implicate the viewer in the violence of spectatorship etc. etc. OK, I won't watch it and Haneke and I can both win.

I'm now disappointed to discover that the only scene with any energy in Benny's Video is actually a clip from Toxic Avenger.