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Béla Tarr

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“I think censorship is always there. Then it was the censorship of the state and now it's the censorship of the market.”

 

Biography

Born in 1955, Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr began making amateur films at the age of 16, later working as caretaker at a national House for Culture and Recreation. His amateur work brought him to the attention of the Bela Balazs Studios (named in honor of the Hungarian cinema theorist), which helped fund Tarr’s 1979 feature debut Family Nest, a work of socialist realism clearly influenced by the work of John Cassavettes. The 1981 piece The Outsider and the following year’s The Prefab People continued in much the same vein, but with a 1982 television adaptation of Macbeth, his work began to change dramatically; comprised of only two shots, the first shot (before the main title) was five minutes long, with the second 67 minutes in length. Not only did Tarr’s visual sensibility move from raw close-ups to more abstract mediums and long shots, but also his philosophical sensibility shifted from grim realism to a more metaphysical outlook similar to that of Andrei Tarkovsky. After 1984’s… read more

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Lefteris Becerra

23Oct11

es difícil decidir qué es mejor, si el cine de tarr o sus reflexiones. tal vez sea inútil diferenciar: son lo mismo parten de la misma energía y están dirigidos contra la misma estupidez y falsedad que nos rodea. sin duda, EL acontecimiento cinematográfico de la ciudad de méxico del 2011: su retrospectiva y su inolvidable presencia. se agradece ¿a quién? que existan personas con esos tamaños --y una cámara para filmar

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Lefteris Becerra

20Oct11

tarr is in da house!

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Leandro Schonfelder

3Oct11

Missing : Utolsó Hajó (imdb link : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264139 ), nice short film.

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