Funny games
(DVD)

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Published
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019].
Format
DVD
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Status
Main Library - Juvenile Media
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Published
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019].
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Language
ger
UPC
715515229814

Notes

General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1997.
General Note
Widescreen (1.85:1).
General Note
Features: New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Michael Haneke; New interviews with Haneke and actor Arno Frisch; New interview with film historian Alexander Horwath; Press conference from the 1997 Cannes Film Festival featuring Haneke and actors Susanne Lothar and Ulrike Mühe; Trailer; An essay by critic Bilge Ebiri.
Creation/Production Credits
Director of photography, Jürgen Jürges ; editor, Andreas Prochaska ; music, Georg Friedrich Hándel, Pietro Mascagni, W.A. Mozart, John Zorn.
Participants/Performers
Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski, Doris Kunstmann, Christoph Bantzer.
Description
"Michael Haneke's most notorious production, 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 which the game's threat of bloodshed is made stomach-churningly real, the film ratchets up shocks even as its executioners interrupt the action to address the audience, drawing attention to the way that cinema milks pleasure from pain and stokes our appetite for atrocity. With this controversial treatise on violence and entertainment, Haneke issued a summation of his cinematic philosophy, implicating his audience in a spectacle of unbearable cruelty"--Container.
System Details
DVD format, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) Dolby 5.1 surround.
Language
German dialogue with optional English subtitles.

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