Unspoken Cinema

16 films / 12 screenplays (1st film: 1978/latest film: 2011)
INSPIRED BY: Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu, Miklós Jancsó, Andrei Tarkovsky, Rainer Fassbinder, John Cassavetes, Larissa Shepitko, paintings (?) ...
C.C.C. films : The Turin Horse (2011); The Man From London (2007); Prologue (2004); Werckmeister harmóniák (2000); Sátántangó (1994); Damnation (1988), Almanac of Fall (1985); The Prefab People (1982); The Outsider (1981); Family Nest (1979);
INFLUENCE ON: Gus Van Sant, Wang Bing, Benedek Fliegauf, György Fehér...

• Press kit [PDF] 
• Press conférence Berlinale 2011 (15 Feb 2011) video 47'17" 
• The Turin horse (Jonathan Romney, 15 Feb 2011, Screen Daily) 
• Michel Ciment - 61e Berlinale (France Culture, 19 Février 2011) webcast 59' [MP3] 
• Berlin viewing 4 (Robert Koehler, Film Journey, 22 Feb 2011) 
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• Vancouver visions (David Bordwell, Oct 2nd, 2007)
• The Man from London (David Pratt-Robson, Oct 03, 2007)
• The Man from London / A Londoni férfi (Rumsey Taylor, Oct 21, 2007, Not coming in theatre near you)
  
• new york film festival, 2007: The Man From London (d+kaz)
• Weight and Sea (Jeff Reichert, Reverse Shot, issue 20)
• The Man from London: Tarr, a master of hypnosis (Fabien Lemercier, May 23, 2007, Cineuropa)
• NYFF: The Man From London (Dave McDougall, 16 Oct 2007, Chained to the Cinémathèque)
• A Human Statement: Béla Tarr on The Man from London (Adam Nayman, April 2008, Cinemascope)
  
• The More Desperate We Are, The More Hope There Is (Robert Chilcott, Autumn 2007, Vertigo Magazine)
  
• "From a Tower, Darkly: Béla Tarr: A londoni férfi (The Man from London)" By: Erzsébet Bori (The Hungarian Quarterly, Volume XLIX, No. 189, Spring 2008)
  
• Le gardien du vide (Cyril Neyrat, Sept 2008, Cahiers #637, p.28)
  
• Slowly, Slowly in the Fog to Noir, via Simenon (Nathan Lee, Sept. 22, 2008, NYT)
  
• The Man From London (John Bradburn, Dec 2008, Vertigo Magazine, #22)
  
• The Dieppe Switchman (András Bálint Kovács, May 2009, Unspoken)
  
• Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "The Man from London" (Bela Tarr, Agnes Hranitzky, 2007) By: Glenn Kenny (The Auteurs, 7 Jul 2009)
  
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• Prologue - Bela Tarr (Visions of Europe) (Almayer)
• Confined Space By: Yvette Biro (May 2009, Unspoken)
  
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• Hope Deep Within - Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies (Gabe Klinger, December 2000, Senses of Cinema)
• Preserving Disorder : Werckmeister Harmonies (Fred Camper, 2001, Chicago Reader)
• End of the road: the films of Bela Tarr (Jonathan Romney, Sept-Oct, 2001, Film Comment)
• Werckmeister Harmonies (Zoran Samardzija, February 2003, Scope)
• Outside the Whale, Film of the Month: Werckmeister Harmonies (Jonathan Romney, April 2003, Sight&Sound)
• The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai (Waggish, April 10, 2003)
• Deep waters (Richard Williams, Saturday April 19, 2003, The Guardian)
• Werckmeister harmóniák, 2000 (acquarello, 2005, Strictly Film School)
• Notes on the camera of Béla Tarr: Damnation (1988) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) (dkaz, February 28, 2007)
• Werckmeister Hamonies (Roger Ebert, Sept 8, 2007, rogerebert.com)
  
• How to Watch Werckmeister Harmonies? (Dan North, Nov 9, 2008, Spectacular Attractions)
  
• Seeking Order in Disorder (Ian Johnston, May 2009, Unspoken)
  
• Werkmeister Harmonies (Srikanth, 17 Oct 2009, Unspoken Cinema)
  
• "Les Harmonies Werckmeister (Bela Tarr)" By: karamzin (à la poursuite du vent; 15 Nov 2009)
  
• "(Dés)ordre : corps ordinaires et figures politiques dans Les Harmonies Werckmeister de Béla Tarr" By: Estelle Bayon (Raison Publique n°12, Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, mai 2010) [FRENCH] 
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• The Importance of Being Sarcastic : Sátántangó (Jonathan Rosenbaum, October 14, 1994, Chicago Reader; also in Essential Cinema)
• Satantango (Bela Tarr) 1994 (Jeremy Heilman, October, 2001, MovieMartyr)
• Sátántangó: And then there was Darkness (Donato Totaro, April 30, 2002, OffScreen)
• Sátántangó, 1994 (acquarello, 2002, Strictly Film School)
• Bela Tarr: Satantango (3 parts) (Waggish) 1 - 2 - 3
• Béla Tarr's Marathon Masterpiece Casts a Devilish Spell (J. Hoberman, January 10th, 2006, Village Voice)
• Sátántangó (Zach Campbell, January 14, 2006, Elusive Lucidity)
• Sátántangó / Satan’s Tango (Rumsey Taylor, Jan 19, 2006, Not coming to a theatre near you)
  
• TANGO marathon (David Bordwell, Oct 22nd, 2006)
• Satantango (1994) (Darren Hughes, 12/12/2006, Long Pauses)
• Lateral Sculpture: Béla Tarr's Sátántangó (Ryland Walker Knight, Jan 19, 2007, The House Next Door)
• Bela Tarr Notes (weepingsam, Jan 18, 2007, The Listening Ear)
• Partisans in the persistent and hopeless fight for human dignity: Sátántangó (Dave McDougall, March 5, 2007, Chained to the cinematheque)
• "Le choc Satantango" (Aug 2 7, 2007, forum des Cahiers du cinéma) [FRENCH]
  
• "Dancing in the dark with SATANTANGO" (Kathie Smith; Film and Video; Walker Art Center; Minneapolis; 15 Oct 2007)
  
• On DVD: "Satantango" (Michael Atkinson, July 22, 2008, IFC)
  
• Opening Shots: "Satantango" (Bela Tarr, 1994) (James Hansen, Jul 28, 2008, Out 1)
  
• Béla Tarr’s Long Takes (an education in film) (adferroaffferro, Aug 19, 2008, fear of death is intransitive)
  
• "A semiotic Satan's tango" By: Alfred Toth (Mathematical Semiotics, No. 236, 2008) PDF
  
• Satantango (Ian Jonston, Jan 27, 2009, Not coming to a theatre near you)
  
• The Style's Function (Matthew Flanagan, May 2009, Unspoken)
  
• Piercing the hermetic skin of Satantango (Robert Davis, May 2009, Unspoken)
  
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• Kárhozat, 1988 (acquarello, 2002, Strictly Film School)
• Damnation (Darren Hughes, 6/04/2004, Long Pauses)
• Defining Contemplative Cinema (Bela Tarr) (weepingsam, Jan 13, 2007, The Listening Ear)
• Bela Tarr's Sound Images: Cinema of Proximity (adrian chan, Jan 16, 2007)
• Notes on the camera of Béla Tarr: Damnation (1988) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) (d+kaz, Feb 28, 2007)
• Damnation (pacze moj, 06-02-2007, Critical Culture)
• Damnation (Edward Howard, May 2009, Unspoken)
  
• Damnation (karamzin, May 2009, A la poursuite du vent)
  
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• Family Nest By: Pacze Moj (May 2009, Unspoken)
• Hands & Faces : Family Nest photo essay By: HarryTuttle (May 2009, Unspoken)
  
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• "La splendeur de Belà Tarr" By: Stéphane Bouquet (Feb 1997, Cahiers du cinéma #510) [FRENCH]
• "Visual Thinking & Various European Cinematic Landscapes. Examples from Peter Greenaway, Theo Angelopoulos, Béla Tarr, and Andrei Tarkovsky" By: Valkola Jarmo (Hungarologische Beiträge. Universität der Jyväskylä 1997)
• "Béla Tarr, le cosmos sinon rien" By: Pascal Richou (June 2000, Cahiers du cinéma #547) [FRENCH]
  
• “The World According to Tarr” By: András Bálint Kovács’ in the catalogue Béla Tarr (Budapest: Filmunio, 2001)
• "Aesthetics of Visual Expressionism: Béla Tarr's Cinematic Landscapes" By: Jarmo Valkola (Hungarologische Beiträge; 13; HUNGAROLÓGIA - JYVÄSKYLÄ, 2001) PDF
  
• "L'esthétique visuelle de Béla Tarr" (Jarmo Valoka, Théorème: le cinéma hongrois, le temps et l'histoire, 2003) [FRENCH]
• "The Camera is a Machine" By: Gus Van Sant (MoMA; Bela Tarr Retrospective Catalogue, 2001) translated in French in Trafic #50, summer 2004 [FRENCH] at Unspoken
  
• "Béla Tarr, le regard du maître" By: Emile Breton (Spring 2002, Cinéma #3) [FRENCH] on Werkmeister Harmonies and Satantango
  
• "Béla Tarr" (Budapest: Mokep Co., 2004)
  
• "Tudósítás a finnországi Jyväskyläból - Hungarológiai Intézete konferenciát szervezett Tarr Béla az európai filmhagyomány megújítója címmel" (Jyväskylä University; Finland; 26-27 March 2004)
• "The Generation of the 1980s/90s: Béla Tarr, Peter Forgács" By: Jarmo Valkola (International Seminar on East-European Cinema, the Hungarian Case – Time and History. Stockholm’s Universität / Filmvetenskap.  8.-9.9.2004)
• "Sátántangó" By: Kovács András Bálint; in The Cinema of Central Europe (ed. Peter Hames, 237-245. London: Wallfl ower; 2004)
  
• "Le cinéma hongrois rouvre un oeil" By: Joël Chapron (March 2004, Cahiers du cinéma #588) [FRENCH]
• "Unkarilainen todellisuus lähikuvassa – Béla Tarrin elokuvien visuaalinen estetiikka" By: Jarmo Valkola (1/ 2005) [FINNISH]
• "Béla Tarr: a Cinema of Patience" Trans. Kati Baranyi, Peter Doherty, Laszlo Jeles Nemes, and Daniel Nashat (Chicago: Facets Video, Feb 2006)
  
• "Unkarilainen todellisuus lähikuvassa – Béla Tarrin elokuvien visuaalinen estetiikka" By: Jarmo Valkola (2006) [FINNISH]
• "A few words on Béla Tarr" By: Howard Feinstein (Sarajevo Film Festival Catalogue, 2006) online at Film and Video; Walker Art Center; Minneapolis; 3 Sept 2007
  
• "Cadences hongroises" By: Thierry Méranger (2006, Cahiers du cinéma #617) [FRENCH]
  
• « Béla Tarr ou le temps inhabitable » By: Sylvie Rollet (Positif, n° 542, avril 2006, pp. 101-103) [FRENCH]
• The devil has all the good tunes (Tim Wilkinson)
• "Saving the Image. Scale and duration in contemporary art cinema" By: Erika Balsom (CineAction, #72, 2007)
  
•  « Théo Angelopoulos, Alexandre Sokourov, Béla Tarr ou la mélancolie de l’Histoire » By: Sylvie Rollet (Positif, n° 556, juin 2007, pp. 96-99) [FRENCH]
• "Time in Cinema : Turbulence and Flow" (Yvette Bíró, 2007) [FRENCH] [ENGLISH] excerpt
  
• "Cinema as Art and Philosophy in Béla Tarr's Creative Exploration of Reality" (Elzbieta Buslowska (Acta Univ. Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies; #1; 2009; p.107-116) PDF
• “Héros modernes dans les films de Béla Tarr” By: Jarmo Valkola (in Colloque International Le héros cinématographique: approches et evolutions d’une notion. Journée d’étude: Institut de Recherche sur le Cinéma et ‘Audiovisuel -IRCAV-, Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France, 10.6.2009)
• « L’archipel de la résistance : Bartas, Loznitsa, Sokourov, Tarr » By: Sylvie Rollet  (Positif, n° 597, novembre 2010, pp. 105-108) [FRENCH]
• "Ege Celeste Reinuma: The Image of Women in the films of Béla Tarr" By: Jarmo Valkola (University of Jyväskylä, Department of Art and Culture; 2012) 
• "The Circle Closes: The Cinema of Béla Tarr" By: András Bálint Kovács (May 2013)
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• A Place in the Pantheon - Films by Bela Tarr (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader)
• Bela Tarr (András Bálint Kovács, Encyclopedia of European Cinema)
• Are you sitting comfortably? (Jonathan Romney, Oct 7, 2000, The guardian)
  
• The Way that Movements Speak (Daniel Frampton, 31 March 2001, Film-Philosophy)
• The melancholy of resistance - The films of Béla Tarr (Peter Hames, 3 Sept 2001, Kinoeye)
• Cinema of Damnation: Negative Capabilities in Contemporary Central and Eastern European Film (Tony McKibbin, Dec. 2004, Senses of Cinema)
  
• Béla Tarr (Girish, Friday, May 05, 2006, girishshambu.com)
• The Falling Rain in Bela Tarr and Andrei Tarkovsky (Adrian Chan, Jan 2007, Unspoken Cinema)
• The sarcastic laments of Béla Tarr (David Bordwell, Sept 19th, 2007)
• "Béla Tarr: Mysterious Harmonies" (?; Walker Art Center; Minneapolis; 14 Sept 2007)
  
• "Tarr Nation: Hungary for More" (Rob Nelson; Film and Video; Walker Art Center; Minneapolis; 19 Sept 2007)
  
• Béla Tarr by David Bordwell (HarryTuttle, Oct 2, 2007, Unspoken Cinema)
• Yvette Biro on Bela Tarr (HarryTuttle, Oct 5, 2007, Unspoken Cinema)
• The story is always a part of the image (HarryTuttle, Oct 10, 2007, Unspoken Cinema)
• Tarr's universe (Nadine Poulain, Autumn 2007, filmwaves #34)
• The World According to Béla Tarr (András Bálint Kovács, Jan 2008, KinoKultura)
  
• Gus Van Sant in the light of Béla Tarr (Jenny Jones, March 17, 2008, Walker Art Center)
• Jeonju Film Festival IV: Bela Tarr (Marc Raymond, May 7, 2008, Foreigner's Guide to Film Culture in Korea)
  
• Béla Tarr’s Long Takes (an education in film) (adferoafferro, Aug 19, 2008, fear of death is intransitive)
  
• Vital Rhythm (Edwin Mak, May 2009, Unspoken journal)
• "The Turin Horse" : Détail - Béla Tarr, éléments (Bertrand Loutte/Tom Weichenhain, 10 Feb 2011, Arte) video 3'
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• Béla Tarr & Paul Saadoun (producer) interview (Eric Schlosser, Oct 2000, Bright Lights Film Journal)
• Waiting For The Prince - an interview with Béla Tarr (Fergus Daly and Maximilian Le Cain, January 2001, Senses of Cinema)
• Out of the shadows (Jonathan Romney, March 24, 2001, The Guardian)
• Interview with Béla Tarr (Fergus Daly, Maximilian le Cain, Spring 2001, Film West #43)
  
• In search of truth - Béla Tarr interviewed (Phil Ballard, 29 March 2004, Kinoeye)
• Béla Tarr and "This Process of Making" (By Jay Kuehner, March 6, 2006, GreenCine)
• Béla Tarr's Slow Burn (Ed Halter, Feb 20th, 2007, The Village Voice)
• Tarr-ed and Feathered in Minneapolis (Antonius Block, 19 Sept 2007)
• Béla Tarr's Man from London (Michael Guillén, September 29, 2007, GreenCine)
• Béla Tarr Interview (Almayer)
• A Brief Interview With Béla Tarr (Steve Erickson)
• A Human Statement: Béla Tarr on The Man from London (Adam Nayman, April 2008, cinemascope)
• Interview with Béla Tarr (Jonathan Romney, Enthusiasm #04)
  
• The More Desperate We Are, The More Hope There Is (Robert Chilcott, Autumn 2007, Vertigo Magazine) on The Man from London
  
• "In Conversation with Bela Tarr" By: Jonathan Romney (Renior Cinema in London; 2007; BelaTarr.com) video 20' part 1 & 2
  
• Plus de pitié (Emmanuel Burdeau, Cyril Neyrat, June 26, 2008, Cahiers #637, Sept. 2008, p.30) on The Man from London
• Tout sur l'homme de Londres (RLV, 19 Sept 2008, DVDrama) [FRENCH] on The Man From London
  
• L'Avventura : Interview with Béla Tarr (Laure Adler, 29 Sept 2008, France Culture) [FRENCH-ENGLISH] transcript at Unspoken Cinema
  
• "Regis Dialogue with Béla Tarr and Howard Feinstein" Q&A (Walker Art Center, 22 Dec 2008) video 1h21'24"
  
• Béla Tarr and Agnes Hranitzky in conversation (András Bálint Kovács, May 2009, Unspoken journal)
• interview by Gary Pollard (RTHK's The Works, 3 Jan 2011) video 9'29" 
• Kikötő  (30 Jan 2011, Duna Televizio) video 19'21" [HUNGARIAN] 
• Press conférence Berlinale 2011 (15 Feb 2011) video 47'17" on The Turin Horse 
• interview of Tarr Béla by Konstanty Kuzma at East European Film Bulletin (15 Feb 2011) on The Turin Horse 
• entretien de Bertrand Loutte (Arte, 16 Feb 2011) video 5'35" on The Turin Horse 
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• "Why I Make Films" By: Béla Tarr Trans. Kati Baranyi, Peter Doherty, Laszlo Jeles Nemes, and Daniel Nashat in "Béla Tarr: a Cinema of Patience" (Chicago: Facets Video, Feb 2006)
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• YouTube BelaTarrdotCom
  
• Wikipedia [en] [fr]
  
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• TARR Béla, cinéaste et au-delà (2011/Jean-Marc Lamoure/France) DOC 45'
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