DVD & Blu-ray: FUNNY GAMES (1997) - Criterion Collection

Product Description: Michael Haneke’s most notorious provocation, Funny Games spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating “games,” the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. A home-invasion thriller in which the genre’s threat of bloodshed is made stomach-churningly real, the film ratchets up shocks even as its executioners interrupt the action to address the audience, drawing queasy attention to the way that cinema milks pleasure from pain and stokes our appetite for atrocity. With this controversial treatise on violence and entertainment, Haneke issued a summation of his cinematic philosophy, implicating his audience in a spectacle of unbearable cruelty.

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Director: Michael Haneke

Starring: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering

Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror

Runtime: 108 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: German

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: May 14, 2019

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Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 1.86:1
Encoding Format: 16:9
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.86:1
Region: Region A/1

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DVD: Dolby Digital 5.1
Blu-ray: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

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DVD: English

Blu-ray: English

SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS

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New interviews with Haneke and actor Arno Frisch
New interview with film historian Alexander Horwath
Press conference from the 1997 Cannes Film Festival featuring Haneke and actors Susanne Lothar and Ulrich Mühe
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Bilge Ebiri