Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke | |
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Born | Munich, Germany | 23 March 1942
Nationality | Austrian |
Alma mater | University of Vienna |
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Years active | 1974–present |
Spouse |
Susanne Haneke (m. 1983) |
Children | 1 |
Michael Haneke (German:
Haneke is known for his "glaciation" trilogy, consisting of
Early life and education
Haneke is the son of German actor and director Fritz Haneke and Austrian actress Beatrix von Degenschild . His stepfather, the composer Alexander Steinbrecher , had later married the mother of actor Christoph Waltz.[3] Haneke was raised in the city of Wiener Neustadt, Austria.
Haneke showed a strong interest in literature and music, but as an adolescent developed a "downright contempt for any form of school".
Career
1974–1988: Early work in television
Haneke started his career directing numerous television projects. He made his debut as a writer and director with the 1974 television movie After Liverpool starring
1989–1997: Rise to prominence
Haneke's feature film debut was 1989's
In 1997 he directed the television film The Castle (1997). The project is based of the Franz Kafka's novel of the same name. The film starred Ulrich Mühe and Susanne Lothar. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. Also that year he directed the feature film Funny Games (1997). The plot involves two young men who hold a family hostage and torture them with sadistic games in their vacation home. The film premiered at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. David Rooney of Variety wrote about his continuation of the examination of violence writing, "Haneke is clearly more interested in the implications of violence than the acts themselves, and the psychological wallop they pack is strengthened by having most of the physical and emotional carnage played off-camera".[15]
2000–2009: Breakthrough and acclaim
He directed the French film
Haneke achieved great success with the critically acclaimed French film
A few years later he directed the
In 2006 he gave his debut as an
2012–present
In 2012, Haneke directed
In 2012, he was to direct
In 2017, for his twelfth film,
Haneke says that films should offer viewers more space for imagination and self-reflection. Films that have too much detail and moral clarity, Haneke says, are used for mindless consumption by their viewers.
Style and reception
Haneke is known for directing films which are often unsentimental and uses disturbing imagery to explore social critiques on issues such as
Favourite films
In 2012, Haneke participated in the
- Au Hasard Balthazar by Robert Bresson (France, 1966)
- Lancelot of the Lake by Robert Bresson (France, 1974)
- Mirrorby Andrei Tarkovsky (USSR, 1975)
- Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodomby Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1975)
- The Exterminating Angel by Luis Buñuel (Mexico, 1962)
- The Gold Rush by Charlie Chaplin (USA, 1925)
- Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock (USA, 1960)
- A Woman Under the Influence by John Cassavetes (USA, 1974)
- Germany Year Zeroby Roberto Rossellini (Italy, 1948)
- L'Eclisse by Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy, 1962)
Filmography
Feature films
Year | Title | Credited as | Reception | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Director | Writer | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | ||
1989 | The Seventh Continent | Yes | Yes | 67% (6 reviews)[39] | 89 (7 reviews)[40] |
1992 | Benny's Video | Yes | Yes | 64% (11 reviews)[41] | 60 (9 reviews)[42] |
1994 | 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance | Yes | Yes | 67% (5 reviews)[43] | 71 (8 reviews)[44] |
1995 | The Moor's Head | No | Yes | — | — |
1997 | Funny Games | Yes | Yes | 71% (38 reviews)[45] | 69 (10 reviews)[46] |
2000 | Code Unknown | Yes | Yes | 75% (51 reviews)[47] | 74 (13 reviews)[48] |
2001 | The Piano Teacher | Yes | Yes | 73% (89 reviews)[49] | 79 (26 reviews)[50] |
2003 | Time of the Wolf | Yes | Yes | 67% (54 reviews)[51] | 71 (20 reviews)[52] |
2005 | Caché | Yes | Yes | 89% (135 reviews)[53] | 84 (37 reviews)[54] |
2007 | Funny Games | Yes | Yes | 52% (144 reviews)[55] | 44 (33 reviews)[56] |
2009 | The White Ribbon | Yes | Yes | 86% (147 reviews)[57] | 82 (33 reviews)[58] |
2012 | Amour | Yes | Yes | 93% (227 reviews)[59] | 94 (45 reviews)[60] |
2017 | Happy End | Yes | Yes | 70% (155 reviews)[61] | 72 (30 reviews)[62] |
Television
Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | |
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Director | Writer | |||
1974 | After Liverpool | Yes | Yes | TV movie |
1976 | Three Paths to the Lake | Yes | Yes | |
Sperrmüll | Yes | Yes | ||
1979 | Lemminge | Yes | Yes | TV mini series; 2 episodes |
1983 | Variation – oder Daß es Utopien gibt, weiß ich selber! | Yes | Yes | TV movie |
1984 | Who Was Edgar Allan? | Yes | Yes | |
1986 | Fraulein – Ein deutsches Melodram | Yes | Yes | |
1991 | Nachruf für einen Mörder | Yes | Yes | TV movie documentary |
1993 | Die Rebellion | Yes | Yes | TV movie |
1997 | The Castle | Yes | Yes | |
2013 | Così Fan Tutte | Yes | No | |
TBA | Kelvin's Book | Yes | Yes | TV series [63] |
Short films
- Lumière and Company (1995) (segment "Michael Haneke/Vienne")
Awards and nominations
His
At the
In 2013, Haneke won the
Bibliography
- Catherine Wheatley: Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image, New York: Berghahn Books, 2009, ISBN 1-84545-722-6 review
- Michael Haneke. Special Issue of Modern Austrian Literature. 43.2, 2010.
- Alexander D. Ornella / Stefanie Knauss (ed.): Fascinatingly Disturbing. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Michael Haneke's Cinema, Eugene, Pickwick, 2010, ISBN 978-1-606-08624-7.
- A Companion to Michael Haneke. Germany: Wiley, 2010.
- Fatima Naqvi, Trügerische Vertrautheit: Filme von Michael Haneke/ Deceptive Familiarity: Films by Michael Haneke, Synema, Wien, 2010.
- Wheatley, Catherine. Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image. United Kingdom: Berghahn Books, 2013.
- Grundmann, Roy, Fatima Naqvi, and Colin Root. Michael Haneke: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2020.
References
- ^ Wray, John (23 September 2007). "Minister of Fear". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 21 August 2007.
- ^ "Michael Haneke: Trilogy". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ In his second marriage, the composer Alexander Steinbrecher was married to Degenschild. After her death he married Elisabeth Urbancic , the mother of Waltz. So Steinbrecher is the stepfather of both Haneke and Waltz.
- ^ "Haneke über Haneke" (PDF).
- ISBN 978-3895812972.)
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ "Interview with Michael Haneke". YouTube. Archived from the original on 22 December 2021.
- ^ "After Liverpool". MUBI. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ "Three Paths to the Lake". TCM. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ "Fraulein: A German Melodrama". MUBI. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ "FRÄULEIN - EIN DEUTSCHES MELODRAM". Torino Film Festival. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ "NACHRUF FÜR EINEN MÖRDER". MUBI. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ "Haneke's house of horrors". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ "Review/Film Festival; Video Violence Turns Real for a Boy". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
- ^ "Funny Games". Variety. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ "Film in Review: Code Unknown". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ "Play It Again". The New Yorker. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ Foundas, Scott (20 May 2003). "Time of the Wolf". Variety.
- ^ "Sight & Sound | Code Unknown (2000)". BFI. 8 July 2010. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
- ^ "The 21st Century's 100 greatest films". BBC. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ "The White Ribbon movie review". Rogerebert.com. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ "All 9 Directors Who Have Won 2 Palme d'Or, from Coppola to Östlund". Collider. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ "A Touching, Tragic Look At 'Amour' In Autumn". NPR. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ "Oscars: Hollywood announces 85th Academy Award nominations". BBC News. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
- ^ "Opera News > The Met Opera Guild". Metoperafamily.org. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
- ^ "Giving Così fan tutte a Little Extra Gravity" Archived 3 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine by George Loomis, The New York Times, 5 March 2013
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (14 March 2013). "Michael H – Profession: Director". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
- ^ "Michael H., Profession: Director". Timeout. 12 March 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
- ^ "Michael Haneke's Happy End is tense horror, and the lurking monster is privilege". Vox. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
- ^ "Michael Haneke Interviewed by Alexander Kluge – News und Stories (eng subtitles by dctp)". ProSiebenSat.1 Media. 23 June 2008. Retrieved 28 May 2012.[dead YouTube link]
- ^ Tozard, Will (8 September 2010). "Top directors teach at European film schools". Variety.
- ^ "Filmakademie Wien". Cineuropa. 7 June 2016.
- ^ "L'ANIMALE | Luxembourg City Film Festival". Luxembourg City Film Festival. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Hausbichler, Beate (12 September 2013). "Katharina Mückstein: "Die Discoszene mit Nina Proll ist natürlich ein Zitat"". Der Standard (in German).
- MoMA. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
- ^ "10 Signature Elements of Michael Haneke's Filmmaking Style". Critic Film & News. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
- ^ "Where to begin with Michael Haneke". BFI. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
- ^ "How the directors and critics voted: Michael Haneke". BFI. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
- ^ "THE SEVENTH CONTINENT". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "The Seventh Continent (1989)". Metacritic. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "BENNY'S VIDEO". Rotten Tomatoes. 11 June 2007. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "Benny's Video (1992)". Metacritic. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "71 FRAGMENTS OF A CHRONOLOGY OF CHANCE". Rotten Tomatoes. 16 May 2006. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance". Metacritic. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "FUNNY GAMES". Rotten Tomatoes. March 2007. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "Funny Games". Metacritic. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "CODE UNKNOWN". Rotten Tomatoes. 30 November 2001. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys". Metacritic. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "THE PIANO TEACHER". Rotten Tomatoes. 29 March 2002. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "The Piano Teacher". Metacritic. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "TIME OF THE WOLF". Rotten Tomatoes. 23 November 2004. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "Time of the Wolf". Metacritic. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "CACHÉ". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "Caché (Hidden)". Metacritic. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "FUNNY GAMES". Rotten Tomatoes. 14 March 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "Funny Games (2008)". Metacritic. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "THE WHITE RIBBON". Rotten Tomatoes. 14 March 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "The White Ribbon". Metacritic. 30 December 2009. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "AMOUR". Rotten Tomatoes. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "Amour". Metacritic. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "HAPPY END". Rotten Tomatoes. 22 December 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "Happy End". Metacritic. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie (29 January 2018). "Michael Haneke To Create His First TV Series 'Kelvin's Book' For FremantleMedia's UFA Fiction". Deadline. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "Awards 2012". Cannes Festival. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
External links
- Media related to Michael Haneke at Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Haneke at IMDb
- Luisa Zielinski (Winter 2014). "Michael Haneke, The Art of Screenwriting No. 5". Paris Review.