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Bela Tarr's Sound Images: Cinema of Proximity

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2007-01-16 08:22:00 by adrian chan in Reviews and analysis of significant films and movies, on dvd and in theaters
Bela Tarr's masterpiece Satantango has been released on dvd finally. My copy hasn't yet arrived, but I've seen this 7 and a half hour work of art three times. I'm anticipating a Bela Tarr fest the moment it shows up. Until then, readers have his Damnation and Werckmeister Harmonies to enjoy (his earlier films are excellent, but precede the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Yvette Biro on Bela Tarr

2007-10-05 16:00:00 by HarryTuttle in Unspoken Cinema
 
...Bela Tarr if he has read this poem, which seems to be a perfect encapsulation of his 7h15' long film Yvette Biro also mentions that Tarr only uses two lenses, two frame scales, either the extreme close up on faces, and the wide shot, contextualizing the environment and distancing the characters. Both associated with long takes This device...
 
 
 
 
 
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Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies: Can human bodies take up heavenly relations?

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2006-03-24 15:55:00 by adrian chan in Reviews and analysis of significant films and movies, on dvd and in theaters
...Bela Tarr is one of those film-makers. And while he is often compared with the Russian master Andrei Tarkovsky (also a time-maker), Bela Tarr's temporalities are material, where Tarkovsky's are often symbolic and visual Asked once why the scene of villagers marching towards the town square in Werckmeister Harmonies lasted as long as it did,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Happy 125TH Birthday Bela Lugosi!

2007-10-20 21:41:00 by Bob Wilkins: The Man Behind The Cigar in Bob Wilkins: The Man Behind The Cigar
 
I just want to mention that today is Bela Lugosi's Birthday and he would have been 125
 
 
 
 
 
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Bela Lugosi in Mexico

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2007-07-07 09:24:00 by Mirek in Vampiros and Monstruos
...Bela Lugosi never made a film in Mexico, but it could very well have happened had Lugosi lived past 1956. Indeed, it's highly probable that Lugosi would have been easily seduced to make horror films in Mexico just as several of his compatriots in American horror films had been. Lon Chaney Jr. was the first American horror legend to make a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Béla TARR - Links

2007-10-14 11:25:00 by HarryTuttle in Unspoken Cinema
 
...Bela Tarr (Visions of Europe) (Almayer Werckmeister harmóniák (2000 Preserving Disorder : Werckmeister Harmonies (Fred Camper, 2001, Chicago Reader Hope Deep Within - Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies (Gabe Klinger, December 2000, Senses of Cinema The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai (Waggish, April 10, 2003 Werckmeister...
 
 
 
 
 
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Béla Tarr by David Bordwell

2007-10-02 23:39:00 by HarryTuttle in Unspoken Cinema
 
...Bela Tarr constitute a referential archetype of what we call here " Contemplative Cinema ", for lack of a better terminology (I don't know how to call it anymore), as they embody every aspect of this marginal trend of contemporean art cinema. The characteristics detailed in a previous post are Plotlessness, Slowness, Wordlessness, Alienation...
 
 
 
 
 
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Frustration

2008-04-05 03:51:54 by Editor in Mission:Insane Fic Challenge
 
...Bela in heated PWP Table/Prompt: Un-Themed 10/#06 - Door Dean pounded on Bela's door. She opened it and he came crashing in Why do you have to frustrate the hell out of me, Bela Frustrate you? Dean, that clearly was not my intent," she replied in that accent of hers Mad past words, Dean let his actions speak for him. He slammed Bela...
 
 
 
 
 
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Simply Sweet Story

2008-06-21 22:32:34 by Editor in Mission:Insane Fic Challenge
 
...Bela. They'd been together for years before she broke off their engagement and left him shortly after the accident. She'd made sure he was going to live and then made him live without her You okay, man Just thinking back to how my life used to be Sometimes it's nice to think back but you need to live for the future. That's the part that...
 
 
 
 
 
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Dracula (1931)

2008-07-09 15:24:08 by Squish in filmsquish.com - reviews, editorials & insight on film and television
 
...Bela Lugosi ( White Zombie The Wolf Man ), Helen Chandler Directed By: Tod Browning ( Freaks The Unknown Overview: "MLENH! MLENH! I vant to suck yer blud Bela Lugosi , in his most classic role: Dracula . The man with a distinctly strange accent anda gaze that bores to the very soul.A man whose castle is nothing more than a broken,...