Dedicated to the memory of Peter Brunette, 1943-2010
The above is a new video essay produced for Film Studies For Free's baby sister site Filmanalytical. It explores some of the obvious, as well as the more obscure, similarities between two films: Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960) and Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages/Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys (Michael Haneke, 2000). Like all mash-ups it's best enjoyed and/or most effective if you know the original films. Read an explanation of the context of this work here.
Thomas Elsaesser on Michael Haneke (excerpt) And see Elsaesser's book chapter on this work here (pdf -details below)
Film Studies For Free created a big Michael Haneke links list in October last year to coincide with the flood of online material on this filmmaker as a consequence of the cinematic release of Das Weisse Band/The White Ribbon. The flood shows no sign of abating, however, and so here's a new and updated list of material. For ease of use, FSFF has listed at the top items that weren't included in the October entry.
At the top of this post is a new video essay made by FSFF's author for a new companion website to this blog: Filmanalytical. The site will focus on video and written essays on films and will necessarily be more "occasional" than FSFF, but hopefully useful nonetheless for those of you who like your Film Studies to be online and freely accessible.
This entry, like two other FSFF posts here and here, is dedicated to the memory of Peter Brunette, the film critic and scholar who died last week. Peter's last book was on Michael Haneke, and below is a link to a wonderful podcast interview that he gave on the subject of this filmmaker.
Finally, there are some other great new English-language books on Michael Haneke -- to join Catherine Wheatley's 2008 Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethics of the Image -- some of which FSFF's author has been poring over. Here are links to limited previews or listings of each of them on Google Books:
- Brian Price and John David Rhodes (eds), On Michael Haneke (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010)
- Roy Grundmann (ed), A Companion to Michael Haneke (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
- Peter Brunette, Michael Haneke (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010)
- Ben McCann and David Sorfa, The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia (London: Wallflower Press, 2010)
New freely accessible items:
- Peter Bradshaw, 'What Haneke owes to Kafka', The Guardian, November 5, 2009
- Peter Brunette interviewed by Colin Marshall about his University of Illinois Press study of Michael Haneke's films (Podcast), April 15, 2010
- Caché - Videoed roundtable discussion of Michael Haneke's film with Roy Grundman, Edward Nersessian, Brigitte Peucker, Brian Price, and Garrett Stewart (1hr25), Philoctetes Center
- Matthew Croombs, 'Algeria Deferred: The Logic of Trauma in Muriel and Caché', Scope, no. 16, February 2010
- Thomas Elsaesser, "Performative Self-Contradictions Michael Haneke's Mind Games," in Roy Grundmann (ed), A Companion to Michael Haneke (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
- Catherine Grant, "True Likeness: Peeping Tom and Code Unknown", Filmanalytical, June 26, 2010
- Jan Jagodzinski, 'Michael Haneke: The Spectatorship of Self-refleXivity; Between Lacan and Deleuze', 'The Scope of Interdisciplinarity' Conference, Center for Integrated Studies, November 2008
- Dan North, 'Funny Games, Funny Games', Spectacular Attractions, October 14, 2009
- David Sorfa, "Uneasy domesticity in the Films of Michael Haneke", Studies in European Cinema, 3.2 (2006)
- Robin Wood, 'Michael Haneke: beyond compromise', CineAction, Summer 2007
- Paul Arthur, 'Endgame [on Caché]', Film Comment, November/December 2005
- Karin Badt, 'Family Is Hell and So Is the World: Talking to Michael Haneke at Cannes 2005', Bright Lights Films Journal, Issue 50, November 2005
- Pamela Biénzobas, 'Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon": The Sins of the Father Are to be Laid Upon the Children', Undercurrent, 2009
- Adam Bingham, 'Long night's journey into day Michael Haneke's Le Temps du loup (The Time of the Wolf, 2003)', Kinoeye, Vol 4, Issue 1, Mar 2004
- Adam Bingham, 'Life, or something like it: Michael Haneke's Der siebente Kontinent (The Seventh Continent, 1989)', Kinoeye, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Mar 2004
- Adam Bingham, 'Modern Times: Notes Toward a Reading of Michael Haneke's 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance', Senses of Cinema, January 2005
- Bill Blick, 'The Time of the Wolf', Senses of Cinema, January 2005
- Joe Bowman, 'The Year 2001: The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)', Film For the Soul, April 28, 2009
- Peter Bradshaw, 'What Haneke owes to Kafka', The Guardian, November 5, 2009
- Peter Brunette interviewed by Colin Marshall about his University of Illinois Press study of Michael Haneke's films (Podcast), April 15, 2010
- Caché - Videoed roundtable discussion of Michael Haneke's film with Roy Grundman, Edward Nersessian, Brigitte Peucker, Brian Price, and Garrett Stewart (1hr25), Philoctetes Center
- Zach Campbell, 'Blog-a-thon: Code Inconnu', Elusive Lucidity, February 12, 2006
- Mary Caputi, 'Ambivalence and Displacement in Michael Haneke’s Caché', Centre for Cultural Studies Research Conference Journal 2007
- John Champagne, 'Undoing Oedipus: Feminism and Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 36, April 2002
- Matthew Clayfield, 'Every Sequence an Unfinished Senten', Esoteric Rabbit Blog, February 13, 2006 [link currently not working]
- Dennis Cozzalio, 'Code Unknown and Crash: Collisions, Connections and Catharsis', Sergio Leone & The Infield Fly Rule, February 13, 2006
- Matthew Croombs, 'Algeria Deferred: The Logic of Trauma in Muriel and Caché', Scope, no. 16, February 2010
- Rob Davis and Robert Parks, 'Podcast Discussion: The Films of Michael Haneke', Errata, April 27, 2008
- Dipanjan, 'Haneke's Optimism' Dipanjan's Random Muses, February 13, 2006
- Maria van Dijk, 'Alienation & Perversion: Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 36, April 2002
- Peter Eisenman, 'Interview with Haneke for Icon', Iconeye
- Thomas Elsaesser, "Performative Self-Contradictions Michael Haneke's Mind Games," in Roy Grundmann (ed), A Companion to Michael Haneke (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
- Christine Evans, 'Cache', UBCinephile, Volume 2, March 2006
- Richard Falcon, 'Code Unknown', Sight and Sound, May 2001
- Hamish Ford, 'Hidden: A film for our times', RealTimeArts, 75, Oct-Nov 2006
- Mattias Frey, 'Supermodernity, Capital, and Narcissus: The French Connection to Michael Haneke’s Benny’s Video', Cinetext: Film & Philosophy, September 27, 2002
- Mattias Frey, 'Michael Haneke', Senses of Cinema, August 2003
- Andrew Grant/Film Brain, 'A Crumpled Piece of Paper: Scattered and Inconsequential Musings on Code Unknown', Like Anna Karina's Sweater, February 13, 2006
- Catherine Grant, "True Likeness: Peeping Tom and Code Unknown", Filmanalytical, June 26, 2010
- Asbjørn Grønstad, 'Downcast Eyes: Michael Haneke and the Cinema of Intrusion', Nordicom Review 29 (2008) 1, pp. 133-144
- Roy Grundmann, 'Auteur de force: Michael Haneke's "cinema of glaciation"', Cineaste, March 22, 2007
- Michael Guillén, 'Code Unknown', The Evening Class, February 13, 2006
- Steffen Hantke, 'Postwar German Cinema and the Horror Film: Thoughts on Historical Continuity and Genre Consolidation', in Caligari's Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945, Edited by Steffen Hantke (Scarecrow Press, 2006)
- Eric Henderson, 'Code Unknown', When Canses Were Classeled, February 13, 2006
- Lee Hill, 'How Do You Think It Feels', Vertigo Magazine, No 16, March 2008
- Aaron Hillis, 'Code Well Known, Or, How to Build a Better Blog-a-thon', Cinephiliac, Fevruary 13, 2006
- Andrew James Horton, 'Locked Out! Michael Haneke's Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages', Central Europe review, Vol 3, No 19, May 2001
- Andrew J Horton, 'De-icing the Emotions: Michael Haneke's retrospective in London', Central Europe Review, Vol 0, No 5, October 1998
- David Hudson, 'The Auteurs Daily: The White Ribbon, How German is it?', The Auteurs Notebook, August 28, 2009
- Darren Hughes,'Code Unknown', Long Pauses, February 13, 2006
- Daniel Hui, 'Fun and Games: On Michael Haneke's 2007 Remake of His 1997 Funny Games', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 61, August 2008
- Nina Hutchison, ' Between Action and Repression: The Piano Teacher', Senses of Cinema, April 2003
- Jan Jagodzinski, 'Michael Haneke: The Spectatorship of Self-refleXivity; Between Lacan and Deleuze', 'The Scope of Interdisciplinarity' Conference, Center for Integrated Studies, November 2008
- Ian Johnston, 'Lost World: Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf Reconsidered', Brights Lights Film Journal, Issue 56, May 2007
- Chris Justice, 'Funny Games', Senses of Cinema, January 2005
- Dominik Kamalzadeh for Die Tageszeitung, 'Interview "Cowardly and comfortable" Michael Haneke's new film "Cache" on France's colonial history investigates the point where private and collective guilt spill over into each other', Signand sight.com, January 2006
- Daniel Kasman, 'Cannes 09: Review of The White Ribbon', The Auteurs Notebook, May 22, 2009
- Tarja Laine, '"What are you looking at and why?" Michael Haneke's Funny Games (1997) with his audience', Kinoeye, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Mar 2004
- Maximilian Le Cain,' Do the Right Thing: the Films of Michael Haneke', Senses of Cinema, May 2003
- David Lowery, 'Following [On Code Unknown], Drifting, February 13, 2006
- Kartik Nair, 'Caché and the secret image', Wide Screen, Vol 1, No 1 (2009)
- Darragh O'Donoghue, 'Code inconnu: Récit incomplete de divers voyages', Senses of Cinema, January 2005
- Ara Osterwell, 'Caché ', Film Quarterly, Vol. 59, Issue 4, 2006
- Dan North, 'Funny Games, Funny Games', Spectacular Attractions, October 14, 2009
- Brigitte Peucker, 'Effects of the real Michael Haneke's Benny's Video (1993)', Kinoeye, Vol. 4 Issue 1, Mar 2004
- Peter Sainsbury, 'Visions, illusions, and delusions', RealTimeArts, 53, Feb-Mar 2003
- A. O. Scott, 'A Nice Middle Class Couple with their own Stalker [on Caché]', New York Times, December 23, 2005
- Girish Shambu, 'Cache', girish, January 23, 2006
- Girish Shambu, 'Code Unknown: An Auto-Dialogue', girish, February 13, 2006. and for the remaining contributions to the Code Unknown Blogathon:
Aaron Hillis at Cinephiliac;Darren Hughes at Long Pauses; David Lowery at Drifting; Dennis Cozzalio at Sergio Leone & The Infield Fly Rule; .Dipanjan at Random Muses; Eric Henderson at When Canses Were Classeled; Filmbrain [Andrew Grant] at Like Anna Karina's Sweater; Matthew Clayfield at Esoteric Rabbit; Michael Guillen at The Evening Class; and Zach Campbell at Elusive Lucidity.
- Christopher Sharrett, 'The Seventh Continent', Senses of Cinema, February 2005
- Christopher Sharrett, 'The World that is Known: Michael Haneke Interviewed', Kino Eye vol. 4, no. 1, 8 March 2004
- Christopher Sharrett, 'The horror of the middle class: Michael Haneke's La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher, 2001)', Kinoeye, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Mar 2004
- David Sorfa, "Uneasy domesticity in the Films of Michael Haneke", Studies in European Cinema, 3.2 (2006)
- Joerg Sternagel, 'From Inside Us: Experiencing the Film Actor in Michael Haneke’s Cache', Film International, Issue 39
- Harry Tuttle, 'Haneke on Hidden', Screenville, October 17, 2005
- Harry Tuttle, 'Three Times 4 Eggs - Funny Games (2)', Screenville, June 18, 2008
- Justin Vicari, 'Films of Michael Haneke: Utopia of fear', Jump Cut, No. 48, Winter 2006
- Catherine Wheatley, 'Secrets, Lies, & Videotape', Sight and Sound, February 2006
- Catherine Wheatley, Michael Haneke: The Ethic of the Image (London: Bergahn Books, 2008) limited preview on Google Books
- Robin Wood, 'Michael Haneke: beyond compromise', CineAction, Summer 2007
