  Haneke is perhaps Austria's most well known artist these days,
a director whose films ("Cache," "Code Inconnu," "Benny's
Video," "La Pianiste," "Le Temps du Loup" and others) contain
violent and intense episodes combined with queasy comedy that
tend to disturb, shock and dismay his fans and his foes. He also
enjoys the distinction of having made "Funny Games," the only
film to ever make me physically ill. In terms of his provocative
content, think Peter Greenaway, not Steven Spielberg.  Zeiler
told me that he used to work for ORF, the Austrian public
broadcaster (which just got a cash infusion from Vienna after
repeatedly going over budget). Not only did he know Haneke's
work, he was responsible for financing it because it's a
government obligation. As for the movies? He doesn't like them;
the brutality turns him off -- so how do you tell people you
don't like the movie that you just bankrolled?  "I tell them,
'It was very interesting!'" he said.  (Photo: Some people might
not like Haneke's movies, but the