Haneke

The third installment of Haneke's "glaciation trilogy" is a mosaic of 71 film tableaux that portrays a number of people and events in the lead-up to a Christmas shooting spree undertaken by an Austrian student, Christmas 1993.

Michael Haneke's film of Franz Kafka's The Castle pairs one of the most influential voices in 20th century literature with one of the most visionary filmmakers of the new millennium. Originally broadcast on Austrian television in 1997, Kino offers The Castle on US DVD for the first time. A film as complex, vivid, and "intriguing" (New York Times) as Orson Welles' The Trial, The Castle is both an ingenious, perversely faithful interpretation of the master of alienation's novel, and a worthy companion to The Piano Teacher, Caché and other films from the darkest leading light of contemporary cinema.

Michael Haneke’s brilliant follow up to his critically acclaimed 'The Piano Teacher', which won the Grand Prix, Best Actress and Best Actor awards at Cannes in 2001, was presented at this year’s Cannes Festival, where it screened out of competition (Patrice Chéreau, the president of this year’s jury, stars in the film which made TIME OF THE WOLF ineligible for any award). Taking its title from Codex Regius, an ancient Germanic poem which describes the time before the ‘Ragnarok’ the end of the world, TIME OF THE WOLF is a dark and brutally compelling apocalyptic drama. Reuniting Haneke with Isabelle Huppert, his award-winning star from 'The Piano Teacher', TIME OF THE WOLF brings together an impressive ensemble cast, including the French speaking talents of Patrice Chéreau, Béatrice Dalle, Olivier Gourmet and Serge Riaboukine.

Written and directed by Michael Haneke, one of modern cinema's most distinctive and ambitious directors, CODE UNKNOWN is a complex film of powerful emotional force and a fascinating study of the subtle connections and barriers between people, social class, race, and the difficulty of communicating in the modern world.

THE PIANO TEACHER is a powerful and controversial new drama from the award winning filmmaker Michael Haneke.

Georg and his wife Anna realize how monotonous and isolated their lives are when their daughter Eva, in a desperate attempt to get attention, suddenly pretends to be blind. The family decides to break with their routine and plans to emigrate to Australia. This film is a stark look at lives severed from feelings.

A story about a boy called Benny, who watches violent movies, including a home-made video of a pig being slaughtered. Soon after, Benny loses his mind and kills a girl and films the murder with his video camera.

Erika (Isabelle Huppert) is a French piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory in Austria. At a recital she meets the young, talented and attractive Walter Klemmer (Benoit Magimel). Their meeting kicks off an obsessive and counter-obsessive sexual relationship delving into perverse sexuality and extraordinary mind games based on humiliation and abuse.

Georges, journaliste littéraire, reçoit des vidéos - filmées clandestinement depuis la rue - où on le voit avec sa famille, ainsi que des dessins inquiétants et difficiles à interpréter. Il n'a aucune idée de l'identité de l'expéditeur. Peu à peu, le contenu des cassettes devient plus personnel, ce qui laisse soupçonner que l'expéditeur connaît Georges depuis longtemps. Georges sent qu'une menace pèse sur lui et sur sa famille, mais comme cette menace n'est pas explicite, la police lui refuse son aide...

In this deconstruction of the way violence is portrayed in the media, a family settles into its vacation home, which happens to be the next stop for a pair of young, articulate, white-gloved serial killers on an excursion through the neighborhood.