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ELECTRA, MY LOVE
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In an awesome leap of imagination, Miklos Jancso relocates the classic myth of Electra to a desolate Hungarian plain. "A masterpiece" (Film Comment).
MY WAY HOME
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Jancso's signature style was first realized in his third solo feature, a World War II drama about a young Hungarian soldier on an arduous trek back to his wife.
PRIVATE VICES AND PUBLIC VIRTUES
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After politicizing Greek myth with Electra, My Love, Miklos Jancso went to Italy to direct Private Vices, Public Pleasures (Vizi Privati, Pubbliche Virtu), a loose, even promiscuous retelling of a royal scandal that shook the court of Austria-Hungary in the late nineteenth century. Lajos Balazsovits plays Crown Prince Rudolf, whose wild orgies at the family estate of Mayerling have angered the King. Troops are sent from the capital to "correct" the heir, his mistress (Teresa Ann Savoy), and fellow revelers in this "playful, often childishly shocking, representation of history" (Faber Companion to Foreign Films). Nominated for the Golden Palm at Cannes. In English. ADULTS ONLY.

Miklos Jancso---Italy/Yugoslavia---1976---101 mins.
RED AND THE WHITE
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Miklos Jancso's haunting work about the absurdity and evil of war. Set in        Central Russia during the Civil War of 1918, the story details the constant      shifting of power between the White guards and the Red soldiers, first at an     abandoned monastery, and later, at a field hospital. Using the wide-screen     technique consisting of very long takes and a ceaselessly tracking camera      movement, Jancso has fashioned a brilliant visual style that gives his film    the quality of a surreal nightmare. In Hungarian with English subtitles.         Miklos Jancso---Hungary---1968---92 mins.
RED PSALM (IMPORT)
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Earning him the best director prize at Cannes, Miklos Jancso's Red Psalm is arguably his best film. Set in the 1890s, it traces a rebellion of striking farmers, ultimately cut down by landowners and soldiers. Jancso has become synonymous with epic movies that employ deep-focus compositions, long takes, choreographed bodies, and slow, nonstop, deliberate camera movements. Comprising only 28 shots, Red Psalm is the ultimate "Jancso film," in that the formal qualities amplify, not overshadow, the operatic story and its themes of oppression and revolt. In Hungarian with optional English subtitles.

Miklos Jancso---Hungary---1972---87 mins.
SILENCE AND CRY
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The friendship between two childhood friends is tested in this political drama   from the great Miklos Jancso (The Round-Up, Electra, My Love). After an    abortive attempt by the Communists to seize power in 1919 Hungary, the           authorities set out to find the insurgents. A lone Communist takes refuge in a rural area with a family, unaware that his friend, an army officer, knows his  whereabouts. In Hungarian with English subtitles.                              Miklos Jancso---Hungary---1967---85 mins.