Funny games /
"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 unsp...
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | German |
| Language Notes: | German dialogue with optional English subtitles. |
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[New York, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2019]
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| Edition: | Director-approved Blu-ray special edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
975. |
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| Summary: | "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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. Widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) Features: New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Michael Haneke, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack; 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. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (109 min.) : video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm) |
| Format: | Blu-ray, region A; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); DTS-HD master audio 5.1 surround. |
| Audience: | Rating: Not rated. |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Jürgen Jürges ; editor, Andreas Prochaska ; music, Georg Friedrich Hándel, Pietro Mascagni, W.A. Mozart, John Zorn. |
| ISBN: | 9781681435824 1681435829 |