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Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: I am almost at a loss as to where to begin to talk about Hungarian director Bela Tarr's 1994 human epic Satantango . Taking two years to film and clocking in at seven hours, Tarr's adaptation of L szl Krasznahorkai's novel is a masterwork of cinema, managing to maintain the style and scope of a rich prose work while still speaking with the living tongue of film language....
Finally, and at last, and released on the day after filmmaker Bela Tarr's 53rd birthday, you can hold Satantango (1994, ****) in your hands. Facets Video has been working on this project for ages—a November release date came and went—but this impressively rich, epic yet minute seven-and-a-half hour accomplishment may be the week's most impressive release (although as an our-DVD set than as an exhibition...
A director came into my office the other day wearing one of the fantastic "film director name rendered in heavy metal script" T-shirts that can be found at CineFile Video in L.A. Our whole office was knocked out, and I made a point of stopping by the store when I was in L.A. to pick some up... but forgot. Fortunately, they're available by mail order, so I can order them and so can you. Each
In honor of the DVD release of Satantango, I have decided to write an entry for Jim Emerson's ongoing Opening Shots Project for it. The entry will give away no significant details of the film's plot and should help create a framework to view the opening shot, if not the entire film. It does discuss some major themes and ideas, so if you want to go in with no knowledge, then I suppose there are spoilers...
Let's start with lists because, as much as I try to keep the Daily not about me, to be asked to draw one up by Criterion is pretty damn exciting. The second list to mention is Simon Augustine's terrifically...
What other movie would it be this week? Being released on DVD for the first time today (well...unless you bought a DVD for $25 on Ebay ripped from old VHS copies (like me!), or if you nabbed the Region 2 disc in the time it was available), Tarr's seven-and-a-half hour masterpiece can FINALLY be seen by everyone in what has to be a beautiful (director approved and supervised) transfer. Originally supposed...
Reviewer: Maria Komodore Rating (out of 5): ***** Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr has always been notorious for his long, slow, and exceedingly bleak cinematic explorations of life in the former Soviet bloc. But the mere two hours and twenty...
Once more today, the first of the year, I try to write this text which has occupied me nearly exclusively for a week, but each day the difficulty of finding the words, of constructing sentences, of arriving at a whole...
I was looking around for some information on Hanna Schygulla after watching The Edge of Heaven a couple of days back and found this short interview of her with Susan Sontag. Actually it's Sontag who does most of the talking but still it is interesting. She also had a short role in Bela Tarr's Werckmesiter Harmonies but she didn't have much to do in it (unlike in Heaven ) which was specially disappointing...
This is my comment in Girish Shambu’s blog: http://www.girishshambu.com/blog/2008/06/cinema-revulsion.html Marc Raymond, thank you very much for the information on Bela Tarr. Maya, thank you for telling me about that painting of Caravaggio. It is disturbing. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3052/2551143676_c302ffec59_o.jpg Apart from paintings, I found some photos disturbing and great at the same time,...
As the fest folds its tent, in this tepid market American distribs have failed to make a major buy. Last year, after all, Miramax bought The Diving Bell and the Butterfly for 3 million and James Gray's We Own the Night brought 11.5 million. This year IFC went on a buying spree, picking up at least six titles. And last minute, SPC acquired two. Overall, the fest has been a letdown,
Film News: 'Delta' may be produced by Bela Tarr -- Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo, whose “Delta” got its competition screening Tuesday, is planning a film about the 15th century sodomy trial of Italian genius Leonardo Da Vinci.
by Shane Danielsen (May 12, 2008) This year's Jeonju International Film Festival , the 9th, boasted ten world premieres of features and feature-length documentaries. There was a retrospective dedicated to Bela Tarr , and another to Alexander Kluge . There were works by James Benning and Nina Menkes and sidebars dedicated to Vietnamese and Central Asian cinema. But with the exception of a brief revisit...
Budapest Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo is hoping to restore some lustre to the Hungarian film industry at this year's Cannes festival following the former east bloc nation's less-than- inspiring return to the main competition last year. Maste...
