Reviews
Friday, May 4 2012
Three Films by Béla Tarr: 'Almanac of Fall', 'Damnation' and 'Satantago'
In a period when cinema accelerated editing and prioritised visual effects that oversimplifed the narrative, Tarr downplayed story-development in favour of formal abstraction, which forced the audience to respond to and reflect upon the material on screen, rather than simply consume it.
Wednesday, March 21 2012
'The Turin Horse': The Daughter Abides
In Béla Tarr's "last" work, the characters' silence speaks to this gorgeously black-and-white film's focus on hardship and brutality, survival and exhaustion.
Tuesday, March 20 2012
Hungarian Master Béla Tarr's Austere, Atmospheric Masterpiece: 'The Man from London'
A visually stunning exploration of fatalism, morality, and temptation, The Man from London is as good a place as any to begin exploring the work of one of cinema's most unique and masterful auteurs
Friday, August 8 2008
Satantango
Béla Tarr’s symphony to the possibilities of cinema, his answer to a cold, unfeeling cosmos by transforming the wretchedness of existence into a vision of wonder and beauty.
