Bela Tarr

International News: Helmer laments 'crisis' in art cinemaRead Full Story

Friday, February 10, 2012 Alan Cumming Launches An 'Old-Fashioned Salon Series' For the record, Alan Cumming saying the word "babyism" is funny. His Scottish accent clips the vowels, so "baby" sounds like "bebe," and the "-ism" follows swiftly like the whole thing is a word everyone's familiar with. Susan Sarandon, the inaugural guest at what's set to be a monthly gathering of Cumming's friends and friends-of-friends, was confused. During the hour of conversation she and Cumming...Read Full Story

Damn. Check this out. László Krasznahorkai’s novel Satantango, the title of which does not apparently include diacritical marks in its new (first published!) English translation. Publisher New Direction’s description: Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is proof, as the spellbinding, bleak, and hauntingly beautiful book has it, that “the devil has all the good times.” The story of Satantango, spread over a couple of days of endless...Read Full Story

“The Man from London may be a lesser work from Béla Tarr, but masterful direction and austere cinematography, not to mention Zeitgeist’s top-notch transfer, make it an indelible, if occasionally exhausting, experience.” Read my review of Béla Tarr’s The Man from London, out on DVD last week from Zeitgeist Films, at Slant Magazine.Read Full Story

Tagged: Art, Béla Tarr, Cinema, Film, Nietzsche, The Turin HorseRead Full Story