Bela Tarr

she doesn't prefer Aki Kaurismaki?

Eek! My Kaurismaki ignorance lost me major points, too :(

(She didn't know who Hsiao-Hsien was, though..)

I can't remember where, but I seem to remember hearing that Artificial Eye had picked up The Man from London. Anyhow - I'd be shocked if it shows up on DVD before the end of 2008.

Speaking of Kaurismaki, Artificial Eye is supposedly releasing ten of his films to DVD in the next month or so - the set of Shadows in Paradise, Ariel & the Match Factory Girl should be available on the 24th!

http://www.artificial-eye.com/dvd/ART350dvd/main.html

this is one of the few directors who probably does need to be seen on a big screen.

kaurismaki is some joke played by the finns.

shd I see Man from London? tonight?

JRo on Satantango:

http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=14983

I'm glad to see that the book's getting a translation too. Krasznahorkai is great.

Reports from the Berlinale on The Turin Horse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vdRTQo39YE

Satantango on Super Bowl Sunday @ LincCtr from 2-11 pm, bitchez

see u dere

lol counterprogramming

they're doing it Saturday too if you're versatile.

the novel Satantango has finally been translated into English and will be available in 2 weeks.

http://www.amazon.com/Satantango-L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3-Krasznahorkai/dp/0811217345

I saw The Turin Horse yesterday in an empty theatre. I am still undecided about how I finally feel about it - at times, I found it incredibly pretentious and dirgey, even for Bela Tarr, which I guess is the point. But the more I think about it, the more I appreciate it, particularly the way it makes some of his other films seem like pretty light fare in comparison. It may be that we have less need for films like this now, but at least phenomenologically, it probably is the most effective of the recent clutch of endtimes art films. I wonder what it is like to work on a Bela Tarr set?

The big dance scene is the newest member of my favorite scenes evah list.
― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Tuesday, January 9, 2007 4:02 PM (5 years ago)

I'm two-thirds of the way through Satantango, so I just lightly skimmed this thread looking for some mention of that scene. Unbelievably good--not the actual tango part, the 10 minutes of insanity before that. I was trying to think of some way to describe the music and couldn't. If you'd asked me yesterday "What movie scene best captures what it's like to be drunk," I probably would have answered the "Rubber Biscuit" scene in Mean Streets. But Satantango beats it.

I wonder why Turin Horse felt less eventful than Jeanne Dielman, when they had a great deal (albeit superficially) in common, but with Dad, the equine, and gypsies added here.

It did win me over after the first 20 minutes of near self-parody, and some of the framing was exqisite, reminding me of Dreyer, Tarkovsky, Ford (counterintuitively, tho I think the b&w helps too), and the silent masters. Dad-actor had a great silent-era face.

Going to get around to watching it in the next week. Been tough to get myself in the mood for it though.

Found this from Sicinski:

Inside the hovel, Tarr stages the lives of the father and daughter as a kind of dour, Kafkaesque structural film, Jeanne Dielman without the tension.

http://academichack.net/TIFF2011.htm#screening

Got The Turin Horse out from the library. (I actually signed it out last year and returned it unwatched.) I didn't find it as weirdly interesting as Satantango or Werckmeister Harmonies, but it looked great, even at home, and it's the kind of thing where I want to go into school tomorrow and play the last scene for my students. Just so they can confront something that's beyond anything they can even begin to get their minds around, and in the hope that a couple of them will vaguely remember it years later. (Sort of like when my grade 8 teacher showed us an NFB film of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." I never forgot that.) The look on the old guy's face when his daughter would dress him was something. I was at a screening of Barry Lyndon yesterday, and the one line near the end describes that look very well: "utterly baffled and beaten," with a little extra baffled throw in, and even a strange sort of defiance. Their dinnertime ritual might be the most miserable thing I've ever seen in a film.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-po_XsQUAb0s/UDqR3Y3ixXI/AAAAAAAACK0/m5wV-vYOTwA/s1600/vlcsnap-2012-08-26-16h14m28s118.png

lmao I think I got the very last one of these

https://shoparbelosfilms.com/products/satantango-blu-ray-with-limited-edition-slipcase

whoa! is the "intermission filmstrip bookmark" like a snip of the intermission frames from the actual film?

My guess is: no, just a reproduction