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Updated: The White Ribbon - A-

Updated: Funny Games (2008) - A- Can't capture lightning in a bottle twice. This is a difficult film to rate. I still find it fascinating, and the power of the base story is intact, but much of the subtext doesn't survive the translation and the 4th wall stuff just didn't have the same effect...

Updated: The Castle - A- Fascinating and inscrutable, with the feeling of being lost in a completely foreign realm where one has no idea of the rules.

NM, it's shipping tomorrow, all is well.... :)

Updated: Benny's Video - B Good, but I didn't find it close to the level of Seventh Continent or 71 Fragments. I wasn't caught up in the tensions or emotion of the situation the way I am in virtually every other Haneke film. Perhaps because the actor playing Benny isn't terribly compelling but...

Updated: The Seventh Continent - A- I would have loved to see this with a live audience. A favorite aspect of Haneke is how he controls the viewer. I almost didn't rate it and I'm still not totally sure how I feel about it. It's perhaps more apocalyptic then Time of the Wolf. It attacks our...

Updated: 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance - A- I was pretty happy with the image quality. I was caught up in the film and wasn't carefully stuying it for artifacts, but aside from some slight image pulse at the beginning, I didn't notice anything wrong with the image. The newscast scenes...

Agreed Rich, I'm a big fan too. I'm not buying Kino discs for the reasons you mention, but have them queued up at Netflix. I'd like to see your input in the Fassbinder thread when you have the time. Seeing as how you're the one who introduced me to him.

Updated: Caché - A I'll be buying this one.

Austrian director born around the time of the German New Wave directors like Fassbinder, Herzog, and Wenders, success came much later for Haneke. His films are thought-provoking and often masterfully filmed statements about the things that unite us and the things that keep us apart. *1. Code...

Rate 'em, Rank 'em, Review 'em, whatever Volume #213 - Micheal Haneke Caché (2005) ... aka Hidden (International: English title) (UK) The Time of the Wolf (2003) The Piano Teacher (2001) Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys (2000) The Castle (1997) Funny Games...