The Piano Teacher (Unrated Edition)

Starring:Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, BenoÃ®t Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch, Cornelia KÃ¶ndgen, Thomas Weinhappel, Georg Friedrich, Philipp Heiss, William Mang, Rudolf Melichar, Michael Schottenberg, Gabriele Schuchter, Dieter Berner, Volker Waldegg, Martina Resetarits, Annemarie Schleinzer, Karoline Zeisler, Liliane Neiska
Director: Michael Haneke
Studio: Kino Video
Product Type: DVD

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Jelinek, Haneke, & Huppert
A work of art. A masterpiece. Not for everyone.
Exceptional in Every Way a Film Can Be!
A dark and sometimes disturbing film
A movie that will make you fall asleep.

The Piano Teacher (Unrated Edition)
Starring: Isabelle Huppert , Annie Girardot , Benoît Magimel , Susanne Lothar , and Udo Samel
Director: Michael Haneke
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Jelinek, Haneke, & Huppert.......2007-07-01

Nobel or no, it surprised me Jelinek's novel got made into a movie. There is of course a filmable plot to the book, but its blunt narrative is so stylized, symbolic, almost childish in its urgent impetus, and hounded all throughout with a foreboding sense of reader-voyeurism, that it seemed to me totally unfilmable or at least very difficult to reproduce on film.

And then I thought - of course, Haneke. The master of cool intellectual voyeurism, done in a visually often flat but (for the viewer) psychologically harrowing way. Plus, Huppert, the master of sangfroid surrender. It could not be any more perfect. Who else but these two to translate onto film the strange, disinterested yet intense tone of the book?! Yet, curiously, the result is surprisingly a lot less like either Jelinek or Haneke.

For one thing, I've never seen his camera as romantic as it is here. It's almost lyric, and although unblinking in its gaze on Erika, it also clearly pities her. It shows her depravity, but it *sees* her as ill. I found myself wondering why Haneke did this. He could not have failed to see the book has far less pity than a slight contempt in its clinical scrutiny. Nor could it quite have been the usual 'movie' reason of having to make its main character sympathetic enough to stay with -- at least not for the director of movies like 'The Seventh Continent.'

These aren't complaints. I have no complaints against this movie. But it should be said that even if Haneke isn't interested in a transparent novel-to-film transfer, it's not as obvious in its being a 'Haneke' film (again, not a complaint).

Actually, I think the movie is all Huppert's. She's devastating and devastated and completely searing.

A work of art. A masterpiece. Not for everyone........2007-05-30

This film is extremely well made and delves deep within the psyche, to reveal one woman's tortured soul... This is neither a happy film, or a pleasant, neatly packaged work that answers all questions before it ends. The journey we take exposes this woman's psychosis, which she keeps under wraps, in fact, under layer upon layer. And, so it goes. It is not pretty, and one must pay attention, and read subtitles. This means, of course, that the uneducated masses may not be suitable viewers for this one, being that so few adults in America actually read, these days... but then again, those who would seek out this film and view it, must certainly be above the crowd. This film is certainly not suitable for children. It is, however, a great work that explores madness, life and issues within the upper echelon so often held on a pedestal. I thought the imagery and eroticism conveyed, even during and considering the main characters apparent mental episodes, were engaging, to say the least; Beautiful performances by a stellar cast.

Exceptional in Every Way a Film Can Be!.......2007-05-22

Michael Haneke is an artist of rare vision who demonstrates in "The Piano Teacher" (La Pianiste), the depth of his insight into the human condition. However, be warned that, in this film, the director demonstrates a levity of mood and captures a portrait of reality that many may find uncomfortable, and even unwatchable. The film was booed by audiences at Cannes 2001 despite the fact that the film's two main performers won best actress and actor awards respectively for their performances. I think the film is one of the most amazingly well-directed and well-acted that I've seen in many years. However, you should be aware that this film is NOT for the faint-hearted.

The central character of the film, Erika Kahut, is more complex than any I've seen, and Isabelle Huppert plays her to perfection. Huppert is my favorite actress and with her icy eyes and cold, even cruel manner, she is riveting to watch. You find yourself asking from the beginning of the film and throughout, what is behind those blank eyes? Is it madness, pain, desire, need? Is it all of these? Whatever it is, it is utterly compelling. The character never explains her actions, nor does the film. Perhaps that is why she is so fascinating. It is as if her face is an opaque surface upon which we can read whatever we wish to.

Erika Kahut, the piano teacher, is a woman in her 40s, lives with her mother, and teaches at a prestigious music school in Vienna. By day, she is an exacting, even monstrously cruel teacher who is constantly reminded by her mother of her failure to become a famous pianist. This is perhaps what compels Erika to be so utterly sadistic toward her students. She resents their potential successes and tries to sabotage the work of the more talented students to ensure that they will not succeed. After abusing her students by day, she goes home to her overbearing mother. She then invents excuses to go out.

At night, the "daytime Erika" of the conservatory is left behind as she goes to porn booths and watches sexually graphic films and sniffs leftover tissues of former patrons to, we presume, get a sexual kick. She does other sexually exotic things throughout the film that are kinky enough to give the kinky pause.

When Erika meets a young, handsome piano player, Walter Klemmer (Benoit Magimel), her world of sexual sadism and self-destruction is taken to the extreme. Walter wants a traditional love affair with Erika, but she has something very different in mind.

The climactic scene where the two of them fight for dominance is one that will go down in cinema history as one of the most horrifying, sad, real, and insightful sex scenes ever filmed. You will NEVER forget Erika's face when she looks fully into the heart of darkness with Walter.

This is a must-see for film lovers and a must-have for Huppert fans.

A dark and sometimes disturbing film.......2007-05-13

Some may be put off by the length of the film (and even more by the fact that it is not in English) but I urge you to sit through this film, watch it to its disturbing end.

This is an exelllent film which looks more into how we view people and how they realy are. Huppert is exellent as a middle class piano teacher who on the outside is a rigid woman in control of her life as much as she is in control of her students, she demands perfection and accpets no excuses. In her private life however, she is torn appart by contradictions. Hupperts commentary in additional material sums it up perfectly, she is almost like a child. Smothered by a mother who controls every aspect of her private life she resorts to what many would consider a 'peverse' private life.

She becomes the unwilling victim of the attractions of one of her students, a young man who has it all, well off family, friends and the social standing that means what he wants, he gets. After a long persuit Hppert finaly gives in only to discover that by opening up to this young man she may lose more than she ever imagined.

This is a film that does at time demand your attention as does last over 2 hours but sit through it, you will be rewarded by the end.

A movie that will make you fall asleep........2007-03-11

Wow,what an amazing movie! This film is great for an insomniac like me. I simply pop it in my dvd player and presto,im out like a light. This is one of those movies from europe that people love or hate and i must say im in the latter. Its not deep,thoughtful or even erotic for that matter(even though there is a very brief scene of XXX peepshow sex). The plot is about a woman that has a lot of sexual frustration in her life because of her family situation. She has...blah blah blah,who cares. This thing has an uninteresting plot with many situations that are simply filler. Avoid this one.

A Lesson With Steve Allen: An Introduction to Jazz Piano

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Intro to jazz piano playing
Perfect for any jazz piano enthusiast or student

A Lesson With Steve Allen: An Introduction to Jazz Piano
Starring: Steve Allen
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ASIN: B0002PYS1A
Release Date: 2004-08-31

Description

One of America's most beloved entertainers divulges his personal tricks of the trade (trills, octave vibrato, "fake runs," blues riffs etc.) and shows you how to build arrangements and spice up jazz pieces with a variety of easy techniques.

In his only instructional lesson, Steve Allen covers basic blues, boogie woogie, stride, walking basses, the use of 10ths, descending bass lines and more, while he plays and analyzes "Honeysuckle Rose," "Spring Is Where You Are," "I'm Confessin' That I Love You," "You Can Depend On Me," "A Time For Love" and other jazz standards.

You'll get inside tips about the musical contributions of several jazz masters too, including Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, Count Basie and Art Tatum in Steve's entertaining and informative overview of jazz piano. A great springboard to further jazz studies!

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Intro to jazz piano playing.......2007-05-12

The late Steve Allen was a modern renaissance man or maybe just a jack of all trades in music and performing. He wrote and played popular jazz standards as well as being a funny comedian, an author, and a very likeable TV personality. In this DVD made from a 1994 tape he shares a lot of little 'tricks' which he either discovered or learned from the greats of jazz like Art Tatum and others.

I'm just a beginner in piano and I can't pick up eveything he is doing the first time going though this. It will be something you will want to go over many times. There are a lot of things here that if you go over them on your own or better with a teacher can make you sound a lot better than you are.

The DVD is divided into 33 sections of 2-3 minutes each so you can find any of tricks to go over easily.

Perfect for any jazz piano enthusiast or student.......2006-04-01

This DVD presents a great insight into the world of jazz piano. Taught by Steve Allen, this is a great how-to on the tips and tricks of being a successful jazz pianist. Includes a number of great arrangements of standards.

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Jelinek, Haneke, & Huppert
A work of art. A masterpiece. Not for everyone.
Exceptional in Every Way a Film Can Be!
A dark and sometimes disturbing film
A movie that will make you fall asleep.

The Piano Teacher (R-Rated Edition)
Starring: Isabelle Huppert , Annie Girardot , Benoît Magimel , Susanne Lothar , and Udo Samel
Director: Michael Haneke
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A work of art. A masterpiece. Not for everyone........2007-05-30

Exceptional in Every Way a Film Can Be!.......2007-05-22

A dark and sometimes disturbing film.......2007-05-13

A movie that will make you fall asleep........2007-03-11

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Dark Layers of a Twisted Psyche

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ASIN: B000067DCZ
Release Date: 2002-10-08

Album Description

Region 1/NTSC 2001 film directed by Michael Haneke. Winner of Best Actress, Best Actor & the Jury's Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Featuring the music of Chopin, Schubert, Beethoven, Bach & Rachmaninov. The story, adapted from Elfriede Jelinek's own novel 'The Piano Teacher', is a stunning look at how a middle-aged woman, a piano professor at the Vienna Music Conservatory, is gradually self-destructing. Erika Kohut, who had a weird love-hate relationship with her mother, was torn by her emotions to music & her dark desires. She often visited the peep show & a porn cinema in the low-class district of Vienna, & watched couple's random mating at night in the park. One day, after one of her students expressed his feeling during the private class, her uninhibited desires explode. Features English subtitles. Special features include theatrical trailers & 5.1 Dolby Surround. Color. 125 minutes.

Customer Reviews:

Dark Layers of a Twisted Psyche.......2006-03-29

Usually I am not the type who likes dark, indeterminate, artsy movies -- I prefer to be entertained by a good story, quality comedy or satire. Had I read these reviews, I probably would have not chosen to view this film. However, not knowing what to expect, I found this one very engaging, gripping and more than a bit haunting. Increasingly repulsive, yet fascinating on a number of levels. There is less plot than in the visually-stunning "The Talented Mr. Ripley" or beautiful muscial "Sweeney Todd," (both highly recommended), but this similarly takes you deeper into the twisted psyche of a monstrous human being -- in this case, a repressed middle-aged, French classical piano teacher. Powerful images stayed with me long after viewing. It's a well-crafted, superbly-acted film on a very difficult, abstract subject. Highly recommended if you like looking into the darker layers of humanity, society and sexuality, without Hollywood's mandatory PC crap or in-your-face politicizing. The French may be pains-in-the butt in terms of international relations, but boy can they paint a twisted celluloid portrait. Excellent, but not a first-date movie!

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good to explain - the music pieces played too short
Bob Hoban Rocks! Highly recommended!

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Starring: Bob Hoban
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ASIN: B0006ZIEI4
Release Date: 2004-12-01

Description

Learn the rollicking '50s and '60s rock 'n' roll piano styles made popular by Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino. Bob Hoban makes it easy to learn how to do slides, rolls, melodic figures, rhythm patterns, shuffles, right-hand licks, slurs, solos, runs, single-note leads, "pushed" notes and "power beginnings." You'll learn the importance of proper finger-crossing techniques, exercises for smaller hands, how to develop your muscle memory and the licks and techniques that will ready you to play hundreds of rock 'n' roll classics.

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good to explain - the music pieces played too short.......2007-05-12

should have been combined with bass and drums, so it gives a better sound picture while played.

Bob Hoban Rocks! Highly recommended!.......2006-11-15

For starters, Bob Hoban is a jovial guy with awesome chops, so this DVD is a pleasure to watch. It is packed with information and know-how, history of rock, suggestions for playing with a band, and recommended recordings for further study. He shows you each lick played at full speed and then plays it very slowly so you can clearly see what he is doing, and he even names the notes he is playing to make sure you get it. A booklet is included with some examples written out in notation (but many more are not notated, which you could do for yourself). This is one DVD I will be using a lot, and when I saw that Bob Hoban also has done a Country Piano DVD for Homespun Tapes, I had to get that one as well.

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What a creepy movie.
Don,t bother!!!!
Clever low budget

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DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS! Carl Ray Hicks (Frankie Ray), a piano teacher with psychopathic tendencies due to his overbearing mother, picks up and kidnaps Dawn (Stephanie Shaub) while she's hitchhiking a ride home to her mother. Keeping her stashed in a secret area of his house, he begins subjecting her to various torture rituals to satisfy his violent desires. Bound to each other in a love/hate relationship, when Dawn finally escapes she finds herself undeniably drawn to return for the fulfillment only Carl could provide for her.

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What a creepy movie........2006-08-02

It was definitely worth picking out from my local video store. Thank goodness, this was not a slasher horror movie. I love this movie cause it was creepy and strange. It made the story seem more real compared to the recently produced and commercialized horror movies. Carl is an evil man. He made me cringe everytime he was flirting with the girls. You can tell from this, he doesn't know how to socialize cause he spent so much time being home alone and browbeatened by his mom. What a psychotic family. This is a movie worth seeing.

Don,t bother!!!!.......2006-07-12

I ordered this movie,having never seen it. Once is more than enough. It was just an all-around dud. It might appeal to some people,but it just didn,t grab my interest. Buy at your own risk.

Clever low budget.......2005-06-03

With a good director, good unkown actors, and a good script, this is what quality story telling is about. The story is compellig and twisted, but you can't take your eyes away. The dialogue is witty and snappy. The funniest scene is when the killer talks to his Mom on the phone and she's telling him her story as to why she ran out of toilet paper on Tuesday instead of Sunday.The sickest is the dinner with the killer, the captive and Mom.I highly reccomend this taunt thriller. It never goes where you think it will.

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Great Movie but distorted Swedish audio!

Intermezzo (1936 Swedish version)
Starring: Gösta Ekman , Inga Tidblad , Ingrid Bergman , Erik 'Bullen' Berglund , and Hugo Björne
Director: Gustaf Molander
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Anxious to recapture his youth, a family man leaves his wife and begins an illicit love affair with his daughter's piano teacher.

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Great Movie but distorted Swedish audio!.......2004-02-08

I loved the movie and highly recomend it for Ingrid fans. Of course I needed the Swedish subtitles, but you must be aware that the audio in the movie is distorted and of very poor quality, so beware! The movie is expensive and one would think it would be of better quality. I kept the movie in my collection because in this case, I don't need the sound to follow the storyline. Thank god for the subtitles.

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Seniors/Teacher
Starring: Seniors , and Teacher
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Dolby Digital Souond
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Standard Full Frame
This Disc is Compatible with all DVD players Worldwide
Color

ASIN: B000EN1C0A
Release Date: 2006-03-28

Product Description

The Seniors-Starring Dennis Quaid When faced with graduation, four seniors plot to prolong their college experience for fear of steady employment, but they're also loathe to leave behind their accommodating housemate Sylvia (played by a pre-Three's Company Priscilla Barnes), who functions as a live-in maid and concubine . In between sumptuous meals and bouts in the sack, the boys pester their parents to pay for post-graduate studies, without success. Luckily, a Poindexter science major named Arnold is desperate to lose his virginity to Sylvia, so the guys trade her sexual favors for his complicity in an elaborate scam. He's the only trusted assistant of reclusive genius Professor Heigner (Alan Reed, the voice of Fred Flintstone), a three-time Nobel Prize winner studying the mating habits of mosquitoes. Foundations are eager to fund the professor's work with generous grants, and since Heigner signs anything Arnold hands him without question, the seniors draft their own letter of request for cash and claim to be studying the sexual habits of college-age girls. It works, and with a 50,000-dollar-grant they offer coeds a 20-dollar honorarium to participate in the study by engaging in any kind of sex they like with our four heroes as the only male volunteers. Eventually, exhaustion and avarice lead them to expand the study and allow local businessmen to take part for a 50-dollar fee, which leads to huge profits. Only the intervention of "the establishment" will show the seniors the folly of their ways, when they enter into partnership with a feminine hygiene corporation and find themselves targeted for murder. Includes A Piano Tooners Cartoon. The Teacher-Starring Jay North Jay North (Dennis the Menace of television fame) stars as a student who learns more about the birds and bees than the basic schoolroom courses from his teacher (Angel Tompkins). Meanwhile, a homicidal maniac (Anthony James) chooses to harass them. Includes a Betty Boop Cartoon

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