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Bookmark or Share- Michael Haneke: Trilogy Review :: Criterion ForumThe Criterion Collection groups together three of Michael Haneke’s early feature films forming a loose trilogy: The Seventh Continent, Benny’s Video and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance. Each film is presented in this set (aptly titled Michael Haneke: Trilogy) on an individual dual-layer disc in the aspect ratio of 1.66:1. All three ...
- Michael Haneke: Trilogy Review :: Criterion ForumThe third and final dual-layer disc in Criterion’s new set, Michael Haneke: Trilogy, presents 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance, delivered here with a 1080p/24hz high-definition encode in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1. The master was taken from a scan of the 35mm original camera negative.
- The Piano Teacher Review - Criterion ForumAcademy Award–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a ...
- Funny Games Review - Criterion ForumMichael Haneke’s most notorious provocation, Funny Games spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating “games,” the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. A home-invasion thriller in ...
- Code Unknown Review - Criterion ForumOne of the world’s most influential and provocative filmmakers, the Oscar–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke diagnoses the social maladies of contemporary Europe with devastating precision and artistry. His drama Code Unknown, the first of his many films made in France, may be his most inspired work. Composed almost entirely of brilliantly shot, single-take vignettes focusing ...
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