This website is new but it has some interesting videos from interviews on a variety of topics.

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It's impossible to remain indifferent to the controlled ferocity of Haneke's films. An in-depth article on the director from the Times with a slide-show commentary.

Quoted: "I like to show my students ‘Triumph of the Will,’ by Leni Riefenstahl, then something by Sergei Eisenstein — ‘Battleship Potemkin,’ for example — and then ‘Air Force One,’ the movie in which Harrison Ford plays the U.S. president. Each of these films has a distinct political agenda, but all make use of exactly the same techniques, all have a common goal — the total manipulation of the viewer. What’s terrible about the Harrison Ford film, though, especially terrible, is that it represents itself as simple entertainment."