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ALMANAC OF FALL
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Bela Tarr's intense chamber drama is set in a claustrophobic apartment, in which the inhabitants reveal their darkest fears, obsessions, and hostilities.
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BELA TARR (3 PACK)
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The first three films by Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr. Shot in a cinema verite style, Family Nest (1977, 100 mins.) captures the lives of an ordinary family in a broken society. The Outsider (1981, 146 mins.), one of two Tarr films shot in color, offers a naturalistic view of life in modern Budapest. Tarr communicates a world of limited options and few opportunities through vivid close-ups and evocative urban locales. Finally, Prefab People (1982, 80 mins.) is a relentlessly realistic portrait of a young working-class couple suffering the everyday stresses of marriage. Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader) called it "the best of Tarr's early forays into Cassavetes-style social realism". In Hungarian with English subtitles. Bela Tarr---Hungary---1977-1982---326 mins.
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DAMNATION (DVD-R)
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Bela Tarr's "deeply existential rumination on the miserableness of existence and the search for a meaning or a means of escape" (DVD Times).
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FAMILY NEST (DVD-R)
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This impressive first film by Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr heralded the arrival of one of late 20th century cinema's most compelling and original voices.
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MAN FROM LONDON, THE
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Even though it took Bela Tarr four years to make his eighth feature, The Man from London is a relatively small-scale affair compared to Satantango and Werckmeister Harmonies. The plot of this noir-tinged, black-and-white film concerns Maloin (Miroslav Krobot), a poor railway worker whose line picks up passengers at a French port. When a boat arrives from London one foggy night, a disembarking man is thrown into the murky sea along with his suitcase. A suitcase filled with stolen cash, as Maloin discovers. Despite this set-up, "the movie is really about a manner of looking at things, exploring space in unexpected ways, meditating on qualities of light and the surface of objects" (Nathan Lee, The New York Times). With Tilda Swinton. Co-directed and edited by Agnes Hranitzky. Nominated for the Golden Palm at Cannes. In French and English with English subtitles.
Bela Tarr---Hungary/France/Germany---2007---130 mins.
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OUTSIDER, THE (DVD-R)
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Bela Tarr's second film (and one of only two shot in color) offers a naturalistic view of life in modern Budapest.
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PREFAB PEOPLE, THE (DVD-R)
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Shot in a gritty documentary style, Bela Tarr's third film is a relentlessly realistic portrait of a young couple suffering the everyday stresses of marriage.
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SATANTANGO (DVD-R)
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"Devastating, enthralling for every minute of its seven hours. I'd be glad to see it every year for the rest of my life," wrote Susan Sontag.
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TURIN HORSE, THE
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In what is supposedly Bela Tarr’s final film, the director does not disappoint his base--those who relish extremely long takes, terse narratives, rich metaphors, and unforgettable, albeit bleak, images. At a brisk two and a half hours, The Turin Horse tells of a horse cart driver (Janos Derzsi), his granddaughter (Erika Bok), and their steed. Over the course of six suspenseful days, they toil around their hut in the middle of a windswept plain, boiling potatoes, fetching water, drinking booze, and watching helplessly as the horse refuses to eat or work. As the days wear on, you get the sense that the horse is dying, and that the world is next. What it all means, you’ll have to decide yourself. Fortunately, you’ll have plenty of time to ponder. "A death-haunted masterpiece" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice). Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize and the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. In Hungarian with English subtitles.
Bela Tarr/Agnes Hranitzky---Hungary---2011---146 mins.
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WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES
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In Bela Tarr's celebrated film, the arrival of a couple of bizarre circus attractions sparks unrest in a provincial Hungarian town.
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