Match Cut Director Consensus - Michael Haneke

[Ezee E]

http://www.fest21.com/files/images/Michael%20Haneke.jpg

HE STARES INTO YOUR SOUL!

RULES & RESULTS (http://www.match-cut.org/showthread.php?t=426)

[Melville]

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance - 7.5
Funny Games - 8
The Piano Teacher - 7.5
Cache - 7

[Derek]

The Seventh Continent - 9.0
Benny's Video - 7.5
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance - 7.0
The Castle - 7.5
Funny Games - 4.5
Code Unknown - 10.0
The Piano Teacher - 8.5
Time of the Wolf - 7.0
Cache - 7.0
Funny Games USA - 4.5

[Ezee E]

Benny's Video - 4
Funny Games - 9
Code Unknown - 4
The Piano Teacher - 8.5
Time of the Wolf - 9
Cache - 8.5
Funny Games USA - 9

[Watashi]

The Piano Teacher - 3
Cache - 8

[NickGlass]

Benny's Video: 7.0
Funny Games: 8.0
The Piano Teacher: 8.5
Cache: 8.0
Funny Games USA: 7.5

[Amnesiac]

I'm not much for relegating a film to a numerical score, so I'll just say that Cache and Funny Games are two of the more original films I've seen in recent memory. They're both intriguing, hard-hitting, uncomfortable and especially effective films.

[Silencio]

Benny's Video - 7
Funny Games - 10
Code Unknown - 9
The Piano Teacher - 9
Caché - 10
Funny Games U.S. - 10

[Rowland]

Funny Games - 5.0
Time of the Wolf - 6.5
Caché - 9.0

[dreamdead]

Rather love the psychosexual tensions of The Piano Teacher, and I love the articulateness of the man, but I'm seldom drawn into his work.

Benny's Video - 5
Funny Games - 5
Code Unknown - 6.5
The Piano Teacher - 8.5
Cache - 7.5

[Raiders]

Benny's Video (1992) 4.0
Funny Games (1997) 6.0
Code Unknown (2000) 8.5

I'm going to see Cache this week.

[Stay Puft]

Benny's Video - 5
Funny Games - 5
The Piano Teacher - 10
Cache - 9

[eternity]

Benny's Video- 1
Code Unknown- 9
Funny Games- 8.5
Cache- 8
Funny Games U.S.- 8.5

[Spinal]

The Seventh Continent - 9
Benny's Video - 7.5
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance - 10
The Castle - 7.5
Funny Games - 10
Code Unknown - 8
The Piano Teacher - 10
Time of the Wolf - 7
Caché - 9.5
Funny Games (2007) - 8

[Bosco B Thug]

The Seventh Continent - 6.5
Code Unknown - 7.5
The Piano Teacher - 8.5
Cache - 9

[Derek]

The Castle - 7.5

Woops, forgot about this one. Good stuff.

[Ezee E]

I'm curious to those who score the Funny Games versions differently. WHy?

[Raiders]

I'm curious to those who score the Funny Games versions differently. WHy?

I would imagine it is hard to watch exactly the same film re-done without anything in the way of substantial change and feel as strongly about it as you do the original.

[NickGlass]

I'm curious to those who score the Funny Games versions differently. WHy?

The original is in a foreign language; therefore, it gets a ratings bump.

[Spinal]

I'm curious to those who score the Funny Games versions differently. WHy?

Better cast is the main reason.

[Boner M]

The Seventh Continent - 7.5
Benny's Video - 6.5
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance - 5
Funny Games - 5.5
Code Unknown - 8.5
The Piano Teacher - 8.5
Time of the Wolf - 6
Cache - 9
Funny Games U.S. - 5.5

[Ezee E]

Better cast is the main reason.
It sort of evens out for me. I prefer Watts/Roth to the parents. But I prefer the European villains to the Americans.

[thefourthwall]

The Piano Teacher - 9
Caché - 7
Funny Games (2007) - 7.5

[Mysterious Dude]

Benny's Video - 7
Funny Games (1997) - 10
Code Unknown - 4
The Piano Teacher - 8
The Time of the Wolf - 8.5
Caché - 8.5

[origami_mustache]

The Seventh Continent - 8
Benny's Video - 9
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance - 7.5
Funny Games - 9
Code Unknown - 9
The Piano Teacher - 7
Time of the Wolf - 9
Cache - 8.5

[soitgoes...]

The Seventh Continent (1989) - 10
Benny's Video (1992) - 9.5
Funny Games (1997) - 9.5
Code Unknown (2000) - 8.5
The Piano Teacher (2001) - 8.5
The Time of the Wolf (2003) - 6.5
Caché (2005) - 9.0
Funny Games U.S. (2007) - 7.0

One of the best contemporary directors out there.

[B-side]

Caché- 7

[Yxklyx]

The Seventh Continent - 8
Funny Games - 8
The Piano Teacher - 7
Caché - 7

[Teh Sausage]

Funny Games (1997) - 5.0
Caché (2005) - 7.5
Funny Games (2008) - 5.0

I never saw the Funny Games remake, but I'm assuming I'd give it the same rating.

[Spinal]

I never saw the Funny Games remake, but I'm assuming I'd give it the same rating.

:rolleyes:

[Ezee E]

Funny Games (1997) - 5.0
Caché (2005) - 7.5
Funny Games (2008) - 5.0

I never saw the Funny Games remake, but I'm assuming I'd give it the same rating.

Riiiiigghhhtt.

Even though I did give it the same rating, there are different actors here, and there is potential, as seen on this board, that people will have different reactions.

You should edit it to what you actually have seen.

[Teh Sausage]

Sorry about that, I just read the first couple of posts and assumed everyone else was doing the same thing.:P I wasn't trying to be snarky or anything, because I would've done this even if I gave the original a more positive score. Guess I was influenced by Gonzalez, whose review of the remake was a duplicate of his original.

You don't have to count my second score.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

Funny Games (orig) - 6
Code Unknown - 7.5
The Piano Teacher - 10
Cache - 8

[Ezee E]

added Benny's Video.

4.

So, while in jail, does Benny become Paul? :)

[Winston*]

I can't see myself seeing the Funny Games remake. I liked the original but I don't feel like there would be any benefit to me in seeing the same story told again.

[eternity]

I can't see myself seeing the Funny Games remake. I liked the original but I don't feel like there would be any benefit to me in seeing the same story told again.

There's only subtle difference, yes, but a lot of the messages have been changed a ton by simply staying the same. ;)

[baby doll]

The Seventh Continent (1989) [8]
72 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) [6]
The Castle (1997) [6]
Funny Games (1997) [8]
Code inconnu: Recit incomplet de divers voyages (2000) [8]
La Pianiste (2001) [10]
Le Temps du loup (2003) [8]
Cache (2005) [7]

[Ezee E]

Time of the Wolf is pretty damn good. It's practically what I envision The Road turning out to be as the look and pace of it goes.

I had no idea where the movie would go after that first scene. phew!

Available to watch on Instant Netflix guys, check it out.

[Philosophe_rouge]

Funny Games (2008) 6

[trotchky]

The Seventh Continent - 9.5
Funny Games - 5
Code Unknown - 7.5
The Piano Teacher - 10
Cache - 10

[Torgo]

The Seventh Continent - 5/10
Funny Games ('97) - 9/10
Cache - 8/10

[BirdsAteMyFace]

The Seventh Continent - 8
Funny Games ('97) - 9
The Piano Teacher - 10
The Time of the Wolf - 6.5
Caché - 7.5
Funny Games U.S. - 8.5

Might not get around to 71 Fragments and Code Unknown anytime soon.

[MacGuffin]

The Seventh Continent (1989) 5.5
Benny's Video (1992) 6.0
Funny Games (1997) 6.5
Code Unknown: Several Tales of Incomplete Journeys (2000) 8.0
The Piano Teacher (2001) 5.0
The Time of the Wolf (2002) 5.0
Caché (2005) 8.5
Funny Games (2008) 7.0

[Kurosawa Fan]

The Piano Teacher - 4.0
Cache - 8.5

[dreamdead]

The Piano Teacher - 4.0


Interesting. Do you have any thoughts on why it didn't connect with you? It remains Haneke's best in my eyes because Ruppert's character openly desires the masochism that underscores much of Haneke's cinema. And though Haneke does other things in cinema well (some of the Cache images are incredible), that sense of masochism in cinema, to me, remains his strength.

[Boner M]

Added Funny Games U.S., bumped my rating up for the original by one point, reminding E to tally these, waiting for KF's response to dreamdead, and drawing attention to dreamdread's amusing typo for all to enjoy.

[Ezee E]

RESULTS:
1. The Piano Teacher - 8.29 (21)
2. Cache - 8.20 (27)
3. The Seventh Continent - 7.83 (12)
4. Code Unknown - 7.73 (15)
5. Funny Games USA - 7.42 (12)
6. Funny Games EUROPE - 7.37 (23)
7. Time of the Wolf - 7.18 (11)
8. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance - 7.17 (6)
9. Benny's Video - 6.14 (14)

DNQ:
The Castle - 7.0 (3)

= 7.60

THE COMLETIST: Spinal
THE TWO THAT DID NOT SEE CACHE: Raiders and Philosophe
THE HATER: Eternity's 1 for Benny's Video

[Spinal]

5. Funny Games USA - 7.42 (12)
6. Funny Games EUROPE - 7.37 (23)


Weird.

[Ezee E]

Weird.
Indeed. It makes sense with the amount of viewers. If I took only the people who saw both, the results would be much different.

Nonetheless, weird.

[soitgoes...]

I was hoping someone here had seen something from his pre-Seventh Continent days. I would love to get a hold of a subtitled version of his Austrian TV work.

[balmakboor]

Funny Games (1st one) - 6
The Piano Teacher - 7
Caché - 6

[StanleyK]

I skipped the Funny Games remake because I saw it once and I know exactly what I would get from it.

The Seventh Continent (1989) - 5.5
Benny's Video (1992) - 5.5
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) - 5.5
Funny Games (1997) - 7
Code Unknown (2000) - 8.5
The Piano Teacher (2001) - 7
Time of the Wolf (2003) - 7
Caché (2005) - 8.5
The White Ribbon (2009) - 10
Amour (2012) - 8.5
Happy End (2017) - 5.5



I'm glad he moved on from his earlier, for lack of a better word, edgier stuff. His latter movies are no less impactful but much more engaging.

[baby doll]

The Seventh Continent (1989) [8]
72 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) [6]
The Castle (1997) [6]
Funny Games (1997) [8]
Code inconnu: Recit incomplet de divers voyages (2000) [8]
La Pianiste (2001) [10]
Le Temps du loup (2003) [8]
Cache (2005) [7]Thirteen years later:

Der siebente Kontinent (1989) spicy
Benny's Video (1992) warm
71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (1994) mild
Funny Games (1997) warm
Das Schloß (1997) mild
Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (2000) spicy
La Pianiste (2001) spicy
Le Temps du loup (2003) warm
Caché (2005) spicy
Das weiße Bande—Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009) spicy
Amour (2012) cold