The Films of Michael Haneke Collection, DVD

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Films of Michael Haneke: The Seventh Continent
1. Opening Titles [4:05]
2. 1987 [4:13]
3. Workers [7:52]
4. Consumers [8:57]
5. Blind, Lonely [9:37]
6. 1988 [7:40]
7. Refuge [6:36]
8. 1989 [10:49]
9. Preparations [11:23]
10. An End to Things [13:13]
11. Visitors and Prisoners [9:20]
12. Ways of Escape [10:11]
Disc #2 -- Films of Michael Haneke: Benny's Video
1. Opening Titles [7:02]
2. A Boy's Life [5:55]
3. Kindred Spirit [8:26]
4. On-Screen Violence [7:19]
5. Scene of the Crime [10:06]
6. Life Goes On [8:46]
7. No Apparent Change [6:58]
8. Videotaped Confession [7:14]
9. Parental Involvement [7:14]
10. Planning Stage [4:52]
11. Benny's Travels [6:53]
12. The Inescapable [9:33]
13. The Family Unit [8:15]
14. Giving Evidence [4:04]
15. Closing Credits [2:34]
Disc #3 -- Films of Michael Haneke: 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
2. October 12, 1993: Part 1 [11:42]
3. October 12, 1993: Part 2 [11:47]
4. October 12, 1993: Part 3 [8:52]
5. October 26, 1993: Part 1 [13:09]
6. October 26, 1993: Part 2 [8:06]
7. October 26, 1993: Part 3 [7:56]
8. October 30, 1993 [5:54]
9. November 17, 1993 [6:34]
10. December 23, 1993: Part 1 [7:51]
11. December 23, 1993: Part 2 [6:58]
12. December 23, 1993: Part 3 [6:08]
Disc #4 -- Films of Michael Haneke: Funny Games
2. Opening Titles [5:37]
3. Safe and Secure [5:17]
4. Asking a Favor [6:28]
5. Some Kind of Game [3:32]
6. Georg Intervenes [5:12]
7. A Guessing Game [3:40]
8. Dealing With Visitors [3:00]
9. First-Name Basis [7:50]
10. A Friendly Wager [2:07]
11. Kitten in the Bag [6:06]
12. Schorschi's Gambit [5:56]
13. Unsafe Haven [3:22]
14. TV Time [4:37]
15. Alone it Seems [10:12]
16. A Plan of Action [7:50]
17. Anna's Effort [6:02]
18. The Loving Wife [7:08]
19. The Praying Game [3:05]
20. A New Captain [4:07]
21. Closing Credits [2:48]
Disc #5 -- Films of Michael Haneke: The Castle
1. K's Arrival [8:50]
2. Assistants [11:20]
3. Frieda [13:20]
4. The Order [12:24]
5. Job Offer [5:30]
6. Waiting for Klamm [12:13]
7. Cold Night [5:57]
8. Too Much [10:39]
9. Two Sisters [9:55]
10. Frieda's Scorn [12:27]
11. Sleep... [11:09]
12. Pepi [9:03]
Disc #6 -- Films of Michael Haneke: Code Unknown
1. Opening Titles [3:19]
2. One Paper Bag [10:54]
3. No Way Out [8:49]
4. Spiritual Counsel [7:36]
5. Maria's Homecoming [3:04]
6. Georges's Homecoming [8:46]
7. Dinners With Friends [9:03]
8. An Anonymous Note [10:15]
9. Questions of Guilt [4:05]
10. Retiring the Herd [4:52]
11. Metro Voyeur [7:54]
12. Funeral for Fran�oise [2:52]
13. "What Can I Do for You?" [7:01]
14. Near Tragedy [5:46]
15. Life Underground [6:22]
16. Displaced [11:17]
Disc #7 -- Films of Michael Haneke: The Piano Teacher
1. Erika, the Piano Teacher [11:23]
2. Walter, an Admirer [9:10]
3. After Work [5:40]
4. The Audition [7:39]
5. Student Relations [10:56]
6. Staying Out Late [7:23]
7. A Break in Rehearsal [10:42]
8. The Playing Field [10:04]
9. Lessons [7:15]
10. Erika's Letter [14:19]
11. Desperate Love [11:27]
12. Confrontations [19:11]

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Three members of a middle-class family are followed as their lifestyle slowly disintegrates. Nothing spectacular happens: it's just the dreary un-ending grind of a go-nowhere existence. The film's final scene emulates Fassbinder, as the threesome bid auf wiedersehn to everyone and everything in a gaudy, grotesque manner. It goes without saying that Der 7. Kontinent is not for everyone's taste. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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All Movie Guide

Three members of a middle-class family are followed as their lifestyle slowly disintegrates. Nothing spectacular happens: it's just the dreary un-ending grind of a go-nowhere existence. The film's final scene emulates Fassbinder, as the threesome bid auf wiedersehn to everyone and everything in a gaudy, grotesque manner. It goes without saying that Der 7. Kontinent is not for everyone's taste. Hal Erickson

All Movie Guide

This cerebral Austrian mystery, by avant-garde director Michael Haneke, will disturb those viewers with the patience to wade through it. The film begins with a grisly mass killing. It was Christmas eve 1993 and a 19-year old student inexplicably murders several people and then kills himself. The fragmented film flashes back to October 12 and then progresses toward the fateful night. Throughout the film many characters appear and suddenly reappear. A homeless teenaged Romanian exile roaming Vienna's streets and begging provides continuity. Each fragment begins with a newscast that functions as a surreal Greek Chorus One shows footage of the war in Sarajevo, and the other is a story about Michael Jackson. Sandra Brennan

All Movie Guide

In this exploration of our violent society, writer and director Michael Haneke takes a disturbing look at how depictions of violence at once reflect and shape our culture. A well-to-do German family -- father Georg (Ulrich M�he), mother Anna (Susanne Lothar), and son Georgie (Stefan Clapczynski) -- are settling in for the weekend at their vacation retreat near the lake. While Georg and his son head out for some sailing, a courteous young gentleman named Peter (Frank Giering) appears at the door, asking if he can borrow some eggs. When he breaks them, Anna offers him some more, but the conversation soon takes an odd turn; Peter goes from pleasant to sniveling to confrontational, and he's soon joined by his friend Paul (Arno Frisch). When Georg returns, he demands that Paul and Peter leave, but the two strangers refuse; Paul and Peter react with violence against Georg and his family, and they soon have the family tied up and begin torturing them. Peter and Paul occasionally refer to the camera in a manner recalling Bertolt Brecht, and near the end of the film, they even demand the opportunity to replay a scene so that they may mete out more punishment against their victims. The score includes classical selections by Mozart and Handel as well as performances by avant-garde composer John Zorn. Mark Deming

All Movie Guide

For 14-year-old Benny, anything recorded on videotape is inherently better and more real than what he can see with his naked eyes. He is barely noticed by his professional parents and spends most of his time either viewing wild and violent films or looking at the view outside his window through his video camera. One day, on a whim, he invites a girl to his house and coolly murders her while his video camera is rolling. Then he hides the body temporarily in his closet and goes off to a party. The calm and unexcited way his parents discuss the situation when he explains it to him, using his video film to demonstrate, makes it clear that his own psychopathology has a long background in that of his parents. Clarke Fountain

All Movie Guide

German-born filmmaker Michael Haneke continues the bleak, formalist experimentation of his 1994 breakthrough 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance with this similarly fragmented tale of racism, intolerance, and hatred in modern-day Paris. The focus of the narrative is split between three sets of people: the French actress Anne (Juliette Binoche), her husband and in-laws; a Romanian woman, Maria (Luminita Gheorghiu), who struggles to raise money for her family back home; and Amadou (Ona Lu Yenke), a teacher for the deaf who is at odds with his resolute African clan. The catalyst for the stories begins on a streetcorner, where Anne's brother-in-law Jean (Alexandre Hamadi) insults Maria, who is begging for change; incensed, Amadou picks a fight with Jean, resulting in negative repercussions for the triptych of protagonists. Throughout, Haneke punctuates the action with his unique editing and use of sound. After its Cannes debut, Code Inconnu made its North American premiere at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival. Michael Hastings

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How far is a man willing to go to be with the woman he wants? Erika (Isabelle Huppert) is a veteran piano instructor at a famous music conservatory in Vienna. Erika is highly respected for her remarkable talent and strong discipline, but she's also known to be a harsh taskmistress and does not suffer fools gladly; among her students, Erika's class is considered a highly rewarding challenge, but difficult to weather. Erika seems to get her stern and unforgiving nature from her mother (Annie Girardot), with whom she still lives, and without a husband or a lover, Erika satisfies her strong but frequently perverse sexual appetites through extreme porn videos, voyeurism, and masturbatory practices that sometimes involve pain and self-mutilation. Erika discovers she has attracted the attentions of one of her students, Walter (Benoit Maginel), a gifted and good-looking young man who does not seem at all put off by her icy personality. She refuses to acknowledge Walter's romantic overtures, but when he rises to the defense of a fellow student after a recital, Erika is enraged, and Walter pursues her, finally following her as she storms off to the women's room. Erika abruptly approaches Walter in a rough sexual fashion, but refuses to fully satisfy him until he is willing to allow her to control the relationship. When Walter becomes aware of just how much pain and humiliation is involved in Erika's erotic bill of fare, he refuses to participate, but in time his attraction to her causes him to weaken, and he begins to accede to her sexual demands. La Pianiste was shown in competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where Isabelle Huppert and Benoit Maginel were named Best Actress and Best Actor, and writer/director Michael Haneke received the Jury's Grand Prize. Mark Deming

UPC: 738329055226
Source: KINO VIDEO
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: Alternate Wide Screen (1.77:1), Theatre Wide-Screen (1.85.1)
Presentation: Letterbox
Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo
Language: Fran�ais, Deutsche
Subtitles: English
Time: 12:49:00
Sales Rank: 20,791

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Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Films of Michael Haneke: The Seventh Continent
1. Opening Titles [4:05]
2. 1987 [4:13]
3. Workers [7:52]
4. Consumers [8:57]
5. Blind, Lonely [9:37]
6. 1988 [7:40]
7. Refuge [6:36]
8. 1989 [10:49]
9. Preparations [11:23]
10. An End to Things [13:13]
11. Visitors and Prisoners [9:20]
12. Ways of Escape [10:11]
Disc #2 -- Films of Michael Haneke: Benny's Video
1. Opening Titles [7:02]
2. A Boy's Life [5:55]
3. Kindred Spirit [8:26]
4. On-Screen Violence [7:19]
5. Scene of the Crime [10:06]
6. Life Goes On [8:46]
7. No Apparent Change [6:58]
8. Videotaped Confession [7:14]
9. Parental Involvement [7:14]
10. Planning Stage [4:52]
11. Benny's Travels [6:53]
12. The Inescapable [9:33]
13. The Family Unit [8:15]
14. Giving Evidence [4:04]
15. Closing Credits [2:34]
Disc #3 -- Films of Michael Haneke: 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
2. October 12, 1993: Part 1 [11:42]
3. October 12, 1993: Part 2 [11:47]
4. October 12, 1993: Part 3 [8:52]
5. October 26, 1993: Part 1 [13:09]
6. October 26, 1993: Part 2 [8:06]
7. October 26, 1993: Part 3 [7:56]
8. October 30, 1993 [5:54]
9. November 17, 1993 [6:34]
10. December 23, 1993: Part 1 [7:51]
11. December 23, 1993: Part 2 [6:58]
12. December 23, 1993: Part 3 [6:08]
Disc #4 -- Films of Michael Haneke: Funny Games
2. Opening Titles [5:37]
3. Safe and Secure [5:17]
4. Asking a Favor [6:28]
5. Some Kind of Game [3:32]
6. Georg Intervenes [5:12]
7. A Guessing Game [3:40]
8. Dealing With Visitors [3:00]
9. First-Name Basis [7:50]
10. A Friendly Wager [2:07]
11. Kitten in the Bag [6:06]
12. Schorschi's Gambit [5:56]
13. Unsafe Haven [3:22]
14. TV Time [4:37]
15. Alone it Seems [10:12]
16. A Plan of Action [7:50]
17. Anna's Effort [6:02]
18. The Loving Wife [7:08]
19. The Praying Game [3:05]
20. A New Captain [4:07]
21. Closing Credits [2:48]
Disc #5 -- Films of Michael Haneke: The Castle
1. K's Arrival [8:50]
2. Assistants [11:20]
3. Frieda [13:20]
4. The Order [12:24]
5. Job Offer [5:30]
6. Waiting for Klamm [12:13]
7. Cold Night [5:57]
8. Too Much [10:39]
9. Two Sisters [9:55]
10. Frieda's Scorn [12:27]
11. Sleep... [11:09]
12. Pepi [9:03]
Disc #6 -- Films of Michael Haneke: Code Unknown
1. Opening Titles [3:19]
2. One Paper Bag [10:54]
3. No Way Out [8:49]
4. Spiritual Counsel [7:36]
5. Maria's Homecoming [3:04]
6. Georges's Homecoming [8:46]
7. Dinners With Friends [9:03]
8. An Anonymous Note [10:15]
9. Questions of Guilt [4:05]
10. Retiring the Herd [4:52]
11. Metro Voyeur [7:54]
12. Funeral for Fran�oise [2:52]
13. "What Can I Do for You?" [7:01]
14. Near Tragedy [5:46]
15. Life Underground [6:22]
16. Displaced [11:17]
Disc #7 -- Films of Michael Haneke: The Piano Teacher
1. Erika, the Piano Teacher [11:23]
2. Walter, an Admirer [9:10]
3. After Work [5:40]
4. The Audition [7:39]
5. Student Relations [10:56]
6. Staying Out Late [7:23]
7. A Break in Rehearsal [10:42]
8. The Playing Field [10:04]
9. Lessons [7:15]
10. Erika's Letter [14:19]
11. Desperate Love [11:27]
12. Confrontations [19:11]

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