Strangers in the house

FUNNY GAMES, Michael Haneke’s notorious treatise on violence and entertainment, is out now on Blu-ray and DVD. THE CRITERION COLLECTION - MAY 14, 2019 [Are You Not Entertained?]( This one’s not for the faint of heart. A merciless look at the nature of violence and modern media, Funny Games is Michael Haneke’s most notorious provocation, a home-invasion thriller that implicates the audience’s appetite for other people’s pain. Presented in our edition in a director-approved restoration, this spellbinding shocker is accompanied by new interviews with Haneke, actor Arno Frisch, and film historian Alexander Horwath, and a press conference from the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Out now on Blu-ray and DVD! Peek Inside - “A film can do nothing, but in the best case it can provoke so that some viewer makes his own thoughts about his own part in this international game of consuming violence.” —Michael Haneke - “Haneke wants to make an ‘unwatchable’ film—one that disturbs us with its cruelty—but the only way to do that is to make a film that is supremely watchable, one that we cannot simply turn off, or leave.” —Critic Bilge Ebiri [The Current]( [ESSAY]( [Bilge Ebiri on Funny Games]( [CLOSET VIDEO]( [A Visit from Terry Gilliam]( [ONE SCENE]( [Garth Greenwell Dissects a Turning Point in The Piano Teacher]( [STUDIO VISITS]( [How Sam Smith Finds Inspiration in the History of Poster Art]( [SONGBOOK]( [The Hot-Blooded Love Cry at the Cold Heart of Badlands]( For further information on Criterion and our products, please visit our website at [criterion.com.]( If you are not already on our mailing list and would like to be added, please [click here]( to register at [criterion.com](. To unsubscribe, [click here.]( © 2019 The Criterion Collection.