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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #28 Funny Games

Published on June 19, 2012

#28. Funny Games

Director/Writer: Michael Haneke
Producers: Christian Baute, Chris Coen, Hamish McAlpine, Andro Steinborn
Distributor: Warner Independent Pictures

The Gist: This is an English-language remake of his 1997 film, but the setting will now be the Hamptons. The film is about a middle-class family on holiday who are terrorized by two young men.

Fact: This is an exact copy of his 1997 film: literally shot by shot with only 1 minute more in length than the original. The question is why?

See It: Notorious for making quality-infused uncomfortable narratives – his filmography acts as one big masterwork for the 7th art form.

Release Date/Status?: WIP releases this March.14th.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).