Welcome to Issue 65 of our journal the editors December 2012 Editorial Amour What an odd event the European Film Awards is. Recently broadcast, the European Film Awards this year celebrated its Silver Jubilee edition. Like the Eurovision Song Contest, it has a revolving door p...
Love, Death, Truth – Amour Roy Grundmann December 2012 Feature Articles Once again, Michael Haneke gives us a story about Georges and Anne, the bourgeois couple that, in various incarnations, has populated his films since the 1980s. (1) In Amour (2012) they are two dignified octoge...
The Uses of Guilt: The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia edited by Ben McCann and David Sorfa Richard Martin November 2012 Book Reviews There’s a scene in Michael Haneke’s Code Unknown (2000) that epitomises both the brilliance and the frustrations that mark his entire body of work. It takes place on the Parisian Métro, where a woman named Anne...
Michael Haneke’s Cinema: The Ethic of the Image by Catherine Wheatley Yun-hua Chen December 2009 Book Reviews Michael Haneke, the Austrian director who has crossed national boundaries to make films in France, the US and now in Germany with Das weisse Band (The White Ribbon, 2009) – newly crowned with the Palme d’Or at ...
Hidden’s Disinherited Children Helen Macallan and Andrew Plain February 2007 Cinema Engagé A thorough examination of Michael Haneke’s troubling film about the sins of the past and their effects on the present.
Funny Games Chris Justice February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Funny Games (1997 Austria 103 mins) Source: Bavarian Films Prod Co: Wega Film Prod: Vit Heiduschka Dir, Scr: Michael Haneke Phot: Jürgen Jürges Ed: Andreas Prochaska Prod Des: Christoph Kanter Mus: Excer...
The Seventh Continent Christopher Sharrett February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Seventh Continent/Der Siebente Kontinent (1989 Austria 104 mins) Source: Bavaria Films Prod Co: Wega Film Prod: Veit Heiduschka Dir, Scr: Michael Haneke Phot: Anton Peschke Ed: Marie Homolkova Art Di...
The Time of the Wolf William “Bill” Blick February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Time of the Wolf/Le Temps du loup (2003 France/Austria/Germany 110 mins) Source: Bavaria Films Prod Co: ARTE/Bavaria Films/CNC/Eurimages/France 3 Cinéma/Le Studio Canal+/Les Films du Losange/Wega Fil...
Modern Times: Notes Toward a Reading of Michael Haneke’s 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance Adam Bingham February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994 Austria 96 mins) Source: Bavaria Films Prod Co: Wega Film Prod: Vit Heiduschka Dir, Scr: Michael Haneke Phot: Jürgen Jürges Ed: Marie Homolkova Prod Des: Chri...
Code inconnu: Récit incomplete de divers voyages Darragh O’Donoghue February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Code inconnu: Récit incomplete de divers voyages (2000 France 118 mins) Source: CNC Prod Co: ARTE France Cinéma/Bavaria Films/Filmex/Les Films Alain Sarde/France 2 Cinéma/MK2 Productions/Romanian Culture...
Do the Right Thing: the Films of Michael Haneke Maximilian Le Cain May 2003 Michael Haneke Fragmented yet logical, estranging yet compassionate, Haneke's films find new ways to dramatise and diagnose contemporary alienation.
Between Action and Repression: The Piano Teacher Nina Hutchison May 2003 Michael Haneke Haneke's latest film takes us to the limits of empathy in its analysis of sexual dysfunction and the repressions of high culture.
