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Il Grido
(Antonioni, 1957)

The Fortune
(Nichols, 1975)

-30-
(Webb, 1959)

Betrayal
(Jones, 1983)

Play It As It Lays
(Perry, 1972)

The Outfit
(Flynn, 1973)

Alex in Wonderland
(Mazursky, 1969)

The Legend of Lylah Clare
(Aldrich, 1968)

In The Cool of the Day
(Stevens, 1963)

That Cold Day in the Park
(Altman, 1969)

The Fox
(Rydell, 1967)

Thumb Trippin'
(Masters, 1972)

Midas Run
(Kjellin, 1969)

At Long Last Love
(Bogdanovich, 1973)

Brewster McCloud
(Altman, 1972)

Outcast of the Islands
(Reed, 1951)

Mike's Murder
(Bridges, 1984)

Reader Submissions

1930's-1950's
The Moon's Our Home
(Seiter, 1936)
Sh! The Octopus
(McGann, 1937)
The Mating Season
(Leisen, 1951)
Bad for Each Other
(Rapper, 1953)
The Phenix City Story
(Karlson, 1955)
Run of the Arrow
(Fuller, 1956)
House of Secrets
(Green, 1956)
Saint Joan
(Preminger, 1957)
Macabre
(Castle, 1958)
The Fiend Who Walked the West
(G. Douglas, 1958
Five Gates to Hell
(Clavell, 1959)
1960's
Key Witness
(Karlson, 1960)
Summer and Smoke
(Glenville, 1961)
The Chapman Report
(Cukor,1962)
Bachelor Flat
(Tashlin, 1962) [on Hulu]
The L Shaped Room
(Forbes, 1963)
The Chalk Garden
(Neame, 1964)
A Thousand Clowns
(Coe, 1965)
You're a Big Boy Now
(Coppola, 1966)
The Whisperers
(Forbes, 1967)
Dark of the Sun
(Cardiff, 1968)
Skidoo
(Preminger, 1968)
Last Summer
(Perry, 1969)
The Comic
(C. Reiner, 1969)
1970-1974
The Revolutionary
(Williams, 1970)
The Landlord
(Ashby, 1970)
Diary of a Mad Housewife
(Perry, 1970)
Tropic of Cancer
(Strick, 1970)
I Never Sang for My Father
(Cates, 1970)
Sometimes a Great Notion
(Newman, 1971)
Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
(Turman, 1971)
'Doc'
(Perry, 1971)
The Music Lovers
(Russell, 1971)
Drive, He Said
(Nicholson, 1971)
The Steagle
(Sylbert, 1971)
The Last Movie
(Hopper, 1971)
Made For Each Other
(Bean, 1971)
The Day the Clown Cried
(Lewis, 1972)
Hickey & Boggs
(Culp, 1972)
The Carey Treatment
(Edwards, 1972)
Pete 'n' Tillie
(Ritt, 1972)
Slither
(Zieff, 1973)
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
(Pakula, 1973)
Man on a Swing
(Perry, 1974)
Open Season
(Collinson, 1974)
The Tamarind Seed
(Edwards, 1974)
Law and Disorder
(Passer, 1974)
Homebodies
(Yust, 1974)
Stardust
(Apted, 1974)
Celine and Julie Go Boating
(Rivette, 1974)
1975-1979
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
(Richards, 1975
At Long Last Love
(Bogdanovich, 1975)
Hearts of the West
(Zieff, 1975)
Welcome to L.A.
(Rudolph, 1976)
W.C. Fields and Me
(Hiller, 1976)
Citizens Band
(Demme, 1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming
(Aldrich, 1977)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
(Brooks, 1977)
Girlfriends
(Weill, 1978)
Movie Movie
(Donen, 1978)
The Medusa Touch
(Gold, 1978)
American Hot Wax
(Mutrux, 1978)
Hot Stuff
(DeLuise, 1979)
Scavenger Hunt
(Schultz , 1979)
Players
(Harvey, 1979)
Rich Kids
(Young, 1979)
Nightwing
(Hiller, 1979)
Screams of a Winter's Night
(Wilson, 1979
When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?
(Katselas, 1979
1980's
Resurrection
(Petrie, 1980)
The Awakening
(Newell, 1980)
Simon
(Brickman, 1980)
God's Angry Man
(Herzog, 1980)
Fast-Walking
(Harris, 1982)
Twice Upon a Time
(Korty & Swenson, 1983)
Trouble in Mind
(Rudolph, 1985)
When the Wind Blows
(Murikami, 1986)
Housekeeping
(Forsyth, 1987)
The Glass Menagerie
(Newman, 1987)
Patty Hearst
(Schrader, 1988)
Running on Empty
(Lumet, 1988)
Drowning by Numbers
(Greenaway, 1988)
Haunted Summer
(Passer, 1988)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
(Spheeris, 1988)
1990's
Men Don't Leave
(Brickman, 1990)
Old Times
(Curtis, 1991)
Prospero's Books
(Greenaway, 1991)
City of Hope
(Sayles, 1991)
The Baby of Macon
(Greenaway, 1993)
King of the Hill
(Soderbergh, 1993)
Dadetown
(Hexter, 1995)
SubUrbia
(Linklater, 1997)

Upcoming

June 11

Tetro

June 12

Call of the Wild 3D

Food, Inc.

Imagine That

Moon

Sex Positive

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love

June 16

Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

June 19

$9.99

Dead Snow

The Proposal

Whatever Works

Year One

June 24

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

June 26

Cheri

Fireflies in the Garden

The Hurt Locker

My Sister's Keeper

The Stoning of Soraya M. 

Surveillance 

July 1

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Public Enemies

July 3

The Girl from Monaco

I Hate Valentine's Day

July 10

Bruno

I Love You, Beth Cooper

Soul Power

July 15

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

July 17

(500) Days of Summer

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane

July 24

All Good Things

The Answer Man

G-Force

In the Loop

Orphan

The Ugly Truth

July 29

Adam

July 31

The Cove

Funny People

Lorna's Silence

They Came from Upstairs

August 7

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Julie & Julia

Paper Heart

Shorts

When in Rome

August 14

A Perfect Getaway

Bandslam

District 9

The Goods: The Don Ready Story

I Sell the Dead

Ponyo

Pool Boys

Spread

Taking Woodstock

The Time Traveler's Wife

August 21

Five Minutes of Heaven

Goose on the Loose!

Inglorious Bastards

It Might Get Loud

Post Grad

World's Greatest Dad

August 28

The Boat that Rocked

Final Destination: Death Trip

H2

September 4

All About Steve

Amreeka

Black Dynamite

Carriers

Citizen Game

Extract

Pandorum

Shanghai

September 9

9

September 11

The Red Canvas

Tyler Perrys: I Can Do It All Myself

Whiteout

September 17

The Burning Plain

September 18

Armored

Brand New Day

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Jennifer's Body

Splice

September 25

Fame

The Invention of Lying

Surrogates

October 2

A Serious Man

More Than a Game

Sorority Row

Toy Story/Toy Story 2

Olsen's "Funny Games" story

Mark Olsen's 3.9 L.A. Times interview with Funny Games director-writer Michael Haneke mentions British-based producer Chris Coen buying the U.S. remake rights, but it doesn't explain why the people at Warner Independent saw it as a worthwhile film to distribute. If it had been my decision, I would have said no.

Consider, for example, what a guy who calls himself "Mr. Mystery" wrote earlier today about seeing a Funny Games preview last weekend at a suburban theatre: "Total silence until the end when someone said 'fuck you!' to the screen, [and] the audience applauded." What loon would say to him or herself, "Now that's a film I want my company to distribute." I respect Funny Games for what it is and I admire Haneke tremendously, but what could Warner Independent president Polly Cohen have been thinking?

Olsen writes that Haneke "insisted on casting Naomi Watts -- he said he would likely have not made the new film if she had said no." But why is Watts listed as the film's executive producer? What was that about? Did she agree to cut her price to nothing so she could have a juicy role to play?

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on March 11, 2008 at 4:35 PM

comment #1

T. Holly Author Profile Page says ...

Why would she have to cut her price to get passive payments on prequel and sequel rights? They could terrorize another family.

Posted by T. Holly Author Profile Page at March 11, 2008 5:51 PM

comment #2

Gordie Lachance Author Profile Page says ...

First No Country and now this. I love the whole fat, lazy, illiterate American sense of entitlement (ie. "I paid my $9.50, and I DEMAND an ending).

We can't see what's coming, but boy do we deserve it.

Posted by Gordie Lachance Author Profile Page at March 11, 2008 7:29 PM

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T. Holly Author Profile Page says ...

someone has to acknowledge this, it's a script ripe for mumblecore

http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2007/11/no-country-for.html

Posted by T. Holly Author Profile Page at March 11, 2008 10:22 PM

comment #4

George Prager Author Profile Page says ...

C'mon Jean Luc Godard, how about a shot by shot remake of WEEKEND starring J-Lo?

Posted by George Prager Author Profile Page at March 12, 2008 6:00 AM

comment #5

George Prager Author Profile Page says ...

Reviewing the original version of “Funny Games,” the critic J. Hoberman wrote: “His movies are founded on the denial of catharsis and, to compound the creepiness, Haneke insists he is occupying the moral high ground. . . . The wheel is rigged so only Haneke can win.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/magazine/23haneke-t.html

Posted by George Prager Author Profile Page at March 12, 2008 6:10 AM

comment #6

OtownRog Author Profile Page says ...

Is it the ending that has people saying "Fuck you," or the smug, talk to the camera pitiless pointlessness of it all?
It's enough like the original to make it watchable, but he takes you out of the movie time and again, and it's not the sort of thriller where that is going to pay off for you.

Posted by OtownRog Author Profile Page at March 12, 2008 8:45 AM

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monsieur hire Author Profile Page says ...

I've seen the original and the new version, and this one feels more powerful to me, perhaps because of my admiration for the depths that Watts goes to in what has to be one of the all-time great pieces of acting in a thriller. She really blows you away, particuarly in the middle of the film when she and Roth get some alone time. But my problem with the original still nagged me here, which is that I disagree that Haneke's director's tricks, including the self-conscious and asides and the rewind, have much impact in diffusing the actual barbarism and emotional torture he conjures up. This is a painful movie, and that Haneke believes the hogwash that he is making a profound statement about our desensitized tolerance level for movie violence and willingness to applaud "acceptable" acts while deriding others. The artifice does nothing but remove us from the drama, and someone should clue him that in a thriller as extreme as this, we are obviously going to indentify with the victims and applaud their retribution against their persecutors. While it has power, Funny Games is more than pretentious and fails to justify its premise. It is an ugly, mean and cruel experience, and Haneke gets his last laugh all right, making us care deeply for characters then....well, it is what it is.

Posted by monsieur hire Author Profile Page at March 12, 2008 10:11 AM

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T. Holly Author Profile Page says ...

Making your movie over again is reverse filmmaking. It's the ultimate pre-vis; I'd love to know how many days it took and the tech craft involved.

For endings, let's not forget the fracus over The Sopranos.

Not sure I need my name twice, so I'm abbreviating.

Posted by T. Holly Author Profile Page at March 12, 2008 12:48 PM

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korryer Author Profile Page says ...

Did you ever posted it on a celebrity and millionaire dating site called wealthysoulmate.com. I saw it there a few weeks ago.

Posted by korryer Author Profile Page at March 13, 2008 1:07 AM

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