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Michael Haneke |
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Director / Screenwriter |
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Born March 23,
Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
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Key
Production Countries: Austria, Germany, France |
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Key Genres:
Drama, Psychological Drama, Crime Drama, Family Drama |
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Key
Collaborators: Veit Heiduschka (Producer),
Christopher Kanter
(Production Designer), Christian Berger (Cinematographer), Margaret
Menegoz (Producer), Udo Samel (Leading Character Player), Susanne Lothar
(Leading Character Player), Maurice Benichou (Leading Character Player), Jurgen Jurges
(Cinematographer), Nadine Muse
(Editor), Marie Homolkova (Editor) |
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Highly Recommended: Caché
(2005)*^ |
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Recommended: The
Seventh Continent (1989), Funny
Games (1997)*,
The White Ribbon (2009)^ |
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Worth a Look: Code
Unknown (2000), Time of the Wolf (2003) |
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Approach with Caution:
Benny's Video (1992), 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1995), The
Piano Teacher (2001)^ |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
section; ^
Listed in TSPDT's
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films
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Links: [
Amazon
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IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Strictly
Film School ] [
Wikipedia ] [
Central
Europe Review Article ] [
Kinoeye
Interview ] [
Bright
Lights Film Journal Interview (2005 ]
[
Sight & Sound Article (2005) ] [
Time Out Interview (2007)
] [
Guardian Article (2008) ] [
Film Comment Interview (2009) ] [
A.V. Club
Interview (2009) ]
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Books: [
Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image ] [
A Companion to Michael Haneke ] [
On Michael Haneke (Contemporary Film and Television Series) ] [
Funny Frames: Studying the Films of Michael Haneke ] |
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"Most
of Michael Haneke's films shock, not so much with their
violence, but with the cold and ambivalent depiction of that
violence. Haneke, one of Austria's most celebrated directors
(although he works in France), intends his films to be critiques
of European society and of American cinema."
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Ronald Bergan (Film - Eyewitness Companions, 2006) |
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"Haneke
has put European cinema back into the premier league (I won't
say singlehandedly, because frankly the Eurozone seems to be
teeming with gifted directors in a way that it hasn't been since
the 1970s), but while others are promising, he is unquestionably
in the same class as
Antonioni,
Fassbinder,
or Godard.
His films are classics: they are perfect and they are
profound... Haneke's films think, whereas the arty end of US
cinema today seems to have disappeared up its own
self-satisfaction.
But at the same time, the visual beauty of his cinema is
beguiling: he achieves a photographic and theatrical clarity
that is somehow quintessentially of our time, of the digital
age, and yet as rich as anything in cinematic history."
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Jonathon Jones (The Guardian, 2010) |
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"Cheerfully wishing his audience a "disturbing evening" at a
London retrospective of his films, director Michael Haneke
insists that he is an optimist at heart, despite all of the
relentlessly bleak carnage and deeply disturbing imagery so
vividly painted and seared into the mind of anyone who has had
the uncomfortable experience of viewing his work." -
Jason Buchanan (All-Movie Guide)
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"Films
that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's
ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think.
If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer
experience." -
Michael Haneke
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"My films are
intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel
down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are
an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false
(because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of
violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of
consumption and consensus." - Michael Haneke |
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Please
note that the rating given for this director (see top-right) is based
only on the films we have seen (listed above). Films by this director
that we haven't seen include Funny Games (2007). |
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"Benny's
Video (1992) and Funny Games (1997) earned
Michael Haneke an erroneous reputation as a provocateur
aiming primarily to shock. But his desire that audiences
engage on an intellectual level has come, in time, to be
better understood... Even the more linear stories of The
Piano Teacher (2001) and Caché (2005) refuse the
comforts of conventional narrative closure or psychological
motivation. The audience is left asking questions that
illuminate moral issues and social, political, and
historical contexts. This could be dry or uninvolving, but
Haneke is skilled at constructing suspenseful narratives and
working with actors. He is one of modern Europe's most
important filmmakers."
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Geoff Andrew,
501 Movie Directors: A Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest
Filmmakers |
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Top 250 Directors |
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21st Century Top
50 |
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100 Essential Directors (Pop
Matters) |
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Ranked
22nd on The Guardian's 2004 List of the World's 40 Best Directors |
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Ranked 7th on Film Comment's list of the 25 Best
Directors of the Decade (2000-2009) |
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501 Movie Directors: A
Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers |
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See Also |
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Michael Haneke's Favourites |
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hasard Balthazar (1966)
Robert Bresson,
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)
Jean-Marie Straub,
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Luis Buñuel,
Germany, Year Zero (1947)
Roberto Rossellini,
The Gold Rush (1925)
Charles Chaplin,
Lancelot du Lac (1974)
Robert Bresson,
The Mirror (1976)
Andrei Tarkovsky,
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Pier Paolo
Pasolini,
Stalker (1979)
Andrei Tarkovsky,
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
John Cassavetes.
Source: Profil (2004) |
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