AFS Essential: BENNY's VIDEO
- WHEN:
- Tue. 04/10 | 7:00PM
- WHERE:
- Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, at the Ritz on 6th Street map
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Theater: Alamo Downtown
Director: Michael Haneke
Rating: Unknown
Runtime: 105min.
Age Policy: 18 and up; Children 6 and up will be allowed only with a parent or guardian. No children under the age of 6 will be allowed.
AUSTIN FILM SOCIETY ESSENTIAL CINEMA SERIES:
THE FILMS OF MICHAEL HANEKE THROUGHOUT APRIL/MAY AT THE ALAMO DOWNTOWN
Haneke is, perhaps, the most controversial of contemporary European directors. His films, all of which determinedly make no concessions to the viewer, have both alienated audiences (being booed at Cannes) and won them over; he has established a position as one of cinema's important provocateurs, a concept lost in an era where cultural/political subversion is often seen as passe, or conceived with jaundiced, anti-humanist cynicism. Equally importantly, he has presented demanding philosophical questions in a formal cinematic language that has a bold and uncomprising nature to match its content.
Tickets for all AFS shows available at the AFS Website
APRIL 10 - 7:00pm: BENNY'S VIDEO
Haneke's "bone-chilling" (Stephen Holden, The New York Times) sophomore film opens with 14-year-old Benny watching amateur footage of a pig being slaughtered with a butcher gun. Benny's preferred mediums of experience are video cameras, action movies and surveillance monitors, and thus begins Haneke's lucid depiction of human beings deprived of their capacity to empathize with others.
Showings (click on a show time to buy tickets):
Tuesday, April 10
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