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Flashback #34
Sátántangó (1994) (aka Satan’s Tango) Béla Tarr Hungarian “They haven’t a clue that it is this idle passivity that leaves them at the mercy of what they fear most” Since the death of Andrei...
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Flashback #46
Panelkapcsolat (1982) (aka The Prefab People) Béla Tarr Hungarian “What about those who are away for years? They never see their kids. The kids grow up with no dad. They grow up and the dad gets them...
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Flashback #52
Werckmeister Harmóniák (2000) (aka Werckmeister Harmonies) Béla Tarr Hungarian “And now, we’ll have an explanation that simple folks like us can also understand, about immortality. All I ask is that...
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Ellipsis #36
Essential Killing (2010) Jerzy Skolimowski English/Polish/Arabic Jerzy Skolimowski’s Essential Killing (2010) opens with helicopter shots of a nearly otherworldly desert with dizzyingly abstract...
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Of Horse And Man
The Turin Horse (Image Courtesy: MottoMagazinBlog) There are 30 shots in all in Hungarian couple Béla Tarr’s and Ágnes Hranitzky’s The Turin Horse (2011), 29 of which involve a moving camera and most...
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Favorite Films Of 2011
It was the best of years, it was the worst of years. Best because a dizzying number of big and important projects surfaced this year and worst because I haven’t even been able to see even a fraction of...
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Ellipsis #57
Podzemlje (1995) (Underground) Emir Kusturica Serbian/German/French/English/Russian Emir Kusturica’s Underground (1995) has been torn apart in certain sections as pro-Milosevic propaganda that...
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Out of the Dark
[The following is a translation of Georges Didi-Huberman’s Sortir du Noir, a long, open letter to László Nemes on his film Son of Saul, published by Ēditions de Minuit in 2015.] — Paris, 24th...
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