Michael Haneke thinks you're a bad person for watching violence in films
Halcyon Pictures announces the DVD release of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games (2007), remade from his own acclaimed 1997 film Funny Games - available in stores on DVD and Blu-ray from 28 July 2008.
Special extra features include: original theatrical trailer; Interview with Director Michael Haneke; Viral trailers; DTS Digital Surround 5.1; Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround; Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo. A Q&A with Funny Games producers Chris Coen and Hamish McAlpine will feature exclusively on the Blu-ray edition.
Michael Haneke: “Recently a friend and critic who recently watched Funny Games US said to me "now the film is where it belongs." He is right. When I first envisioned Funny Games in the middle of the 90s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American Cinema, its violence, its naiveté, the way American Cinema toys with human beings. In many American films violence is made consumable.
However, because it was a foreign language film and because the actors were not familiar to a US audience, it did not reach its audience. In 2005, a British producer approached me with the idea to do a remake in English. I agreed under the condition that Naomi Watts star in the movie.”
A special edition DVD with exclusive sleeve will be available in HMV stores and a limited edition DVD with four exclusive art cards will be available from Zavvi stores.
