- "A feature film is twenty-four lies per second." -- Michael Haneke, Cannes (2005)
Michael Haneke (born March 23, 1942 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany) is an Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theater and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work.[1]
Biography
The son of actor and director Fritz Haneke and actress Beatrix von Degenschild, Haneke was raised in the city Wiener Neustadt. He attended the University of Vienna to study philosophy, psychology and drama after failing to achieve success in his early attempts in acting and music. After graduating, he became a film critic and from 1967 to 1970 he worked as editor and dramaturg at the southern German television station Südwestfunk. As a playwright, he directed a number of stage productions in German, which included Strindberg, Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist in Berlin, Munich and Vienna. He made his debut as a television director in 1973.
Haneke's feature film debut was 1989's The Seventh Continent, which served to trace out the violent and bold style that would bloom in later years. Three years later, the controversial Benny's Video put Haneke's name on the map. Haneke's greatest success came in 2001 with his most critically successful film, The Piano Teacher. The film won the prestigious Grand Prize at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and also won its stars, Benoit Magimel and Isabelle Huppert, the Best Actor and Actress awards. He has worked with Juliette Binoche on two occasions, after she expressed interest in working with him. [1]
Quotes
- "My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus."
- -- From "Film as catharsis".[2]
- "Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable"
Filmography
Feature films
TV films
Short films
References
- ^ "Minister of Fear.", New York Times Magazine, September 23, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-08-21. "Making waves, however, is what Haneke has become famous for. Over the last two decades, the director has developed a reputation for stark, often brutal films that place the viewer — sometimes subtly, sometimes explicitly — in the uncomfortable role of accomplice to the crimes playing out on-screen. This approach has made Haneke one of contemporary cinema’s most reviled and revered figures, earning him everything from accusations of obscenity to a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art next month. “Funny Games,” the movie Haneke was shooting in New York and Long Island, is the American remake of a highly controversial film by the same name that he directed in 1997."
- ^ Haneke, Michael - "Film als Katharsis": in "Austria (in)felix: zum österreichischem Film der 80er Jahre" - Bono, Francesco (ed.), 1992. ISBN 3901272003
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