A Conversation with Michael Haneke
Funny Games U.S.
Directed by Michael Haneke
Director in Person
Screening on Film
$15 Special Event Tickets
Screening on Film
$15 Special Event Tickets
Michael Haneke discusses his extensive career as a filmmaker from his early German and Austrian television films to his most recent film, a remake of his own 1997 shocker, Funny Games. Moderated by Roy Grundmann.
In this shot-by-shot remake of one of Haneke’s most disturbing works, an upper-middle class family is terrorized by two clean-cut thugs while vacationing in the Hamptons. In the wake of low-budget horror successes such as Hostel and Saw which use game play as gratuitous tools of terror, Haneke’s remake could not be more timely.