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Haneke on Haneke Conversations with Michel Cieutat & Philippe Rouyer EDITIONS STOCK, Paris www.editions-stock.fr Maÿlis Vauterin ([email protected]) Thomas Guillaume ([email protected]) Haneke on Haneke Conversations with Michel Cieutat & Philippe Rouyer Interviews / Cinema September 2017 – Revised and expanded edition 384 pp. 130 photos and stills (world rights cleared) Rights sold to Italy (Il Saggiatore) and Spain (Gonita Filmaccion) This is the book about the great film marker Michael Haneke that film lovers have been waiting for. This book is not a user’s manual for Michael Haneke’s films. The result of fifty hours of interviews spaced out over two years between Paris and Vienna, this book – which boasts over 100 rare or previously unpublished photographs – gives the director of Funny Games and The White Ribbon an arena to express his concept of the art of film and his perception of our contemporary world. As he talks to Michel Cieutat and Philippe Rouyer, two critics from the film review Positif, Michael Haneke goes back over his youth and the stage plays that he directed before itemising, film by film, his work in television and on the big screen, from his early beginnings in 1974 right up to Happy End which will be released in 2017 worldwide. Over successive free and impassioned conversations comes a series of accounts and secrets about the art of film-making, revealing the figure of a very unusual creator, a perfectionist full of humour. This is the book about the great film maker Michael Haneke that film lovers have been waiting for. Michel Cieutat has been contributing to the review Positif since 1973, and to CinémAction since 1987. He has written almost a dozen books on a variety of American film makers and actors (Frank Capra, Martin Scorses, Oliver Stone, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Audrey Hepburn), as well as Gérard Blain from France and England’s Peter Greenaway. He has lectured on Hollywood iconography and on the history of French and American cinema at the University of Strasbourg. The film critic and historian Philippe Rouyer is a senior editor on the review Positif and editorial director of the film pages for Psychologies magazine. He regularly appears on the France Culture radio show “Mauvais genres” and the TV show “Le Cercle” on Canal + Cinéma. EDITIONS STOCK, Paris www.editions-stock.fr Maÿlis Vauterin ([email protected]) Thomas Guillaume ([email protected]) Table of Contents Foreword 1. Younger years – The beginnings on the radio 2. Theatre years 3. After Liverpool - Household Rubbish - Three Paths to the Lake 4. Lemmings, part one and two. 5. Variation - Who Was Edgar Allan? – Miss 6. Obituary for a Murderer – The Rebellion – The Castle 7. The Seventh Continent - Benny’s Video – 71 fragments of a Chronology of Chance 8. Lumière and Company – Funny Games and Funny Games US 9. Code Unknown, The Piano Teacher 10. Time of the Wolf - Hidden 11. Don Giovanni at the opera – Film teaching 12. The White Ribbon 13. Amour 14. Così Fan Tutte – Happy End 15. Filmography 16. Bibliography 17. Photo credits 18. Index of names 19. Acknowledgements EDITIONS STOCK, Paris www.editions-stock.fr Maÿlis Vauterin ([email protected]) Thomas Guillaume ([email protected]) Haneke par Haneke Entretiens avec Michel Cieutat et Philippe Rouyer Interviews / Cinéma Septembre 2017 – Edition revue et augmentée 384 pages Env. 130 photos et captures d’écran (libres de droits) Droits cédés en Espagne (Gonita Filmaccion) et Italie (Il Saggiatore) Ce livre n’est pas un mode d’emploi des films de Michael Haneke. Fruit de cinquante heures d’entretien échelonnées sur deux années entre Paris et Vienne, ce livre, illustré d’une centaine de photos rares ou inédites, permet au réalisateur de Funny Games et du Ruban blanc d’exprimer sa conception du septième art et sa perception du monde contemporain. Face à Michel Cieutat et Philippe Rouyer, deux critiques de la revue de cinéma Positif, Michael Haneke revient sur ses années de jeunesse et ses mises en scène au théâtre avant d’évoquer, film par film, son travail à la télévision et au cinéma, de ses débuts en 1974 jusqu’à Happy End qui sortira en salles à l’automne 2017. Au gré d’échanges libres et passionnés, anecdotes, récits et secrets sur l’art de faire un film se succèdent pour dégager l’image d’un créateur singulier, perfectionniste et plein d’humour. Voici le livre attendu par les cinéphiles sur ce grand cinéaste qu’est Michael Haneke. Michel Cieutat collabore à la revue Positif depuis 1973, ainsi qu’à CinémAction depuis 1987. Il est l’auteur d’une dizaine d’ouvrages sur divers cinéastes et acteurs américains (Frank Capra, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Audrey Hepburn), français (Gérard Blain) et anglais (Peter Greenaway). Il a enseigné l’iconographie hollywoodienne et les histoires des cinémas américains et français à l’Université de Strasbourg. Critique et historien de cinéma, Philippe Rouyer est membre du comité de rédaction de la revue Positif et en charge des pages cinéma du magazine Psychologies. Il est chroniqueur régulier des émissions « Mauvais genres » sur France Culture et « Le Cercle » sur Canal+ Cinéma. .
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