September 2007 | Facets CinEvent: Béla Tarr
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A Facets  with a Master of Cinema
Béla Tarr
Béla Tarr is one of the world's great visionary filmmakers -- the director of Damnation, Werckmeister Harmonies and the legendary epic Sátántangó.
Much honored at film festivals across the world, recipient of numerous
awards, named "European Director of the Year," he is an innovator of
film language and called "one of the most celebrated auteurs in world
cinema." In a now-famous quote, the late Susan Sontag said Tarr's Sátántangó is "Devastating, enthralling for every minute of its seven hours. I'd be glad to see it every year for the rest of my life."
WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES
Sunday, Sept. 16 at 12 pm
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WINNER
CFCA Award
Best Foreign Language Film
Chicago Film Critics
Association Awards |
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WINNER
Film Critics Award &
László B. Nagy Award
Hungarian Film
Critics Awards |
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"Tarr's true achievement is to attain the condition of silence, and of bottomless, awesomely inscrutable nightmare."
BFI/Sight and Sound
 "This is as challenging as movies come, alluding to everything from philosopher Thomas Hobbes to the history of Western music."
Christian Science Monitor
"A stunning feature"
Variety
"A work of bravura filmmaking"
Village Voice
"If genius is close to madness, then Tarr's genius - because genius has
to be what it is - is closer to autism, a kind of untrained savant
touch for compelling imagery."
Guardian Unlimited
"A melancholy meditation on social disorder and senseless
violence...Tarr creates a powerful tension between the camera's quest
for unity and scenes of disorder, the camera seeking balance where
there is none."
Chicago Reader
"Tarr belongs to the cinematic tradition of Luis Buñuel and Werner Herzog, in that he twists reality into impressionism...Werckmeister's standout moments are searing like few others in film history."
The Onion
In a remote Hungarian town all order, meaning and reason are about
to break down; for reasons left unexplained, people no longer ask why,
or where, but merely wonder when. At the village center a mob has
gathered, awaiting the appearance of a rabble-rouser called "the
Prince". Tarr's camera (with minutely observed detail) presents a
society poised between civility and barbarism, only steps away from
either inertia or apocalypse, in a film that only has 39 shots.
Directed by Béla Tarr, 2001, 35mm, 145 min. In Hungarian and German
with English subtitles.
Director interview
Senses of Cinema
Senses of Cinema (2)
BFI/Sight and Sound
Variety
Village Voice
Guardian Unlimited
Chicago Reader
The Onion
Admission:
Non-members $9
Members $5
Patron Circle Members FREE
SYMPOSIUM: BÉLA TARR
Béla Tarr in person!
Sunday, Sept. 16 at 3 pm
"Conceivably the most important Eastern European filmmaker currently at work"
-Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader
Three of cinema's sharpest minds come together for an exclusive
encounter with one of the world's greatest visionary filmmakers, Béla
Tarr. Participating in the symposium are: David Bordwell, film theorist, historian professor and author of Ozu, Poetics of Cinema and The Way Hollywood Tells It; Scott Foundas, film editor of L.A. Weekly, contributor for Variety and member of the selection committee of the New York Film Festival; and Chicago Reader film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, who authored Essential Cinema, Placing Movies and Discovering Orson Wells.
Moderated by Susan Doll, Ph.D., the discussion will cover the central
themes and concerns of Béla Tarr's unique body of work from such films
as Family Nest, the epic Sátántangó and his most recent work The Man From London.
Kinoeye
Jonathan Rosenbaum on Tarr
Admission:
Non-members $15
Members and Patron Circle Members $10
*Please note: Two separate admissions are required for each event.
Order tickets online:
For further information, contact our Film Program Director, Charles Coleman: charles@facets.org
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