SAT JUNE 4, 2022 10:00 PM FUNNY GAMES $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | Pre-recorded introduction by film critic A. A. Dowd. ‘BLEAK WEEK: Cinema of Despair’ Series. Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILM: 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. FORMAT: 35mm DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films