When Michael Haneke unveiled The Seventh Continent in 1989, it came without the guideposts that viewers usually need in order to make sense of tragedy. There is no backstory to explain things, no ...

Michael Haneke's films are audience provocations in disguise. At first glance, his movies make us think we've signed on for a regular European art film. We see upper-middle-class families and hear ...

Recently on Blu-ray from Criterion is Michael Haneke Trilogy, showcasing the Austrian director’s first three theatrical features. The trilogy combines the qualities of being aesthetically formal and ...

Michael Haneke’s powerful, provocative, and highly disturbing film is about the collective suicide of a young and seemingly “normal” family (1989). Prompted by Austria’s high suicide rate and various ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Spanning five decades and twenty-four films, director Michael Haneke’s career is one of the most significant in the history of European art cinema. However, critical reception has long lagged behind ...

Michael Haneke’s powerful, provocative, and highly disturbing film is about the collective suicide of a young and seemingly “normal” family (1989). Prompted by Austria’s high suicide rate and various ...