On this episode of the podcast, we're talking about the films of Michael Haneke. He sometimes seems to be making the same film over and over with intriguing variations. His latest, Funny Games -- the story of a family that is tormented for a few hours by a couple of white-gloved hooligans -- has even fewer of those variations than usual, but the obvious repetition certainly fits among his usual obsessions.
0:00 Intro
2:58 Clip: Funny Games (2007)
3:47 Funny Games Remade
9:07 Caché (2005), Serge Daney on Perspective
17:37 Benny's Video (1992)
19:35 The Seventh Continent (1998)
21:03 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
23:18 Time of the Wolf (2003)
32:30 Time of the Wolf and Funny Games
36:16 Funny Games as a Loop
39:41 Examples of Rigor
44:05 A Different Kind of Watching
49:47 The Piano Teacher (2001)
50:17 Code Unknown (2000)
52:58 Places to Start
54:06 Revisiting Funny Games
56:52 Misremembering Movies
58:37 Revisiting Benny's Video
1:02:38 Absorbing Violence
1:06:13 Cleaning Up
1:08:42 What are we really like?
1:11:07 Outro
Coming Up: A discussion of Errol Morris's new film, Standard Operating Procedure and an interview with the filmmaker.
Related Links
- Rob on Caché
- J. Robert on Caché
- Rob on Funny Games (2007) (short review)
- Interview with Haneke on Funny Games (1997)
- Rob superimposes the two Funny Games and confuses them with Last Year at Marienbad
- Thoughts from Girish on Caché. He also quotes a bit from acquarello's Haneke-as-scientist observation, which I mentioned in the podcast. (I'd link to the comments directly, but they were made on the now defunct Cinemarati site.)
- Harry Tuttle has notes from a radio interview