Game Culture: Alexander Horwath on Funny Games
Alexander Horwath, film historian, curator, and former director of the Austrian Film Museum, discusses FUNNY GAMES (1997) and its place in director Michael Haneke’s oeuvre. »Horwath establishes FUNNY GAMES not only as a response to the violent postmodern films of Quentin Tarantino and Oliver Stone, in vogue in the early to mid-’90s, but as a forebearer to popular Hollywood films that tackle the nature of cinematic reality and reality itself. The most intriguing of Horwath’s insights, however, are the parallels he draws between Haneke’s film and today’s video games and gaming culture« (Derek Smith, www.slantmagazine.com).
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