The Best DVDs of 2025
The Best DVDs of 2025 are the works of serious auteurs whose films will stick in your brain like haunting melodies – or shards of glass.
Michael Haneke
Life Is Killing Us: Metaphysics of Facts and Form in Michael Haneke’s Films
Michael Haneke’s films partly alienate viewers by demonstrating that his characters feel alienated from their lives, cultures, and themselves, so one form of alienation breeds another.
2017 Fall Film Preview: At Last, the Film Industry Awakens From Its Slumber
From Gary Oldman in The Darkest Hour to James Franco's meta-experiment Blade Runner: 2049 and Daniel Day-Lewis's final role, here are the movies you'll want to watch ... and a couple you might not.
The Tangled, Trailing Tale of Michael Haneke’s WWI Mystery, ‘The White Ribbon’
The mystery conceit in Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon acts as a hook and alludes to the larger mystery of wartime conformity and dangerous obedience, which it partly seeks to address.
Hitchcock, Haneke and the Psycho-Sexual Voyeur Apparatus
Much like Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Haneke uses the framework of voyeurism to push the audience to take notice of themselves within the narrative structure, to push the audience to wonder: are we voyeurs too?