US EditionHungarian Director Béla Tarr, Known for Darkly Comic Films, Dies at 70
Béla Tarr, acclaimed for his 439-minute film Satantango, influenced cinema for over 40 years and retired after 2011's The Turin Horse, the European Film Academy said.
- On Tuesday, MTI reported that Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr died at 70, citing filmmaker Bence Fliegauf who said the family announced he passed after a long and serious illness.
- After completing his final feature "The Turin Horse", Tarr retired from filmmaking and later taught at film academies in Hungary, Germany and France, earning honorary professorships in China.
- Satantango, his most famous film, is a 439-minute adaptation of a László Krasznahorkai novel, showcasing Tarr's long, hypnotic takes and black-and-white imagery, with nine features in total.
- The European Film Academy emailed news of Tarr's death and had previously honoured him with its Honorary Award.
- Tarr first attracted international acclaim with "Damnation" at the Berlin International Film Festival, while his early film "Family Nest" won the Mannheim Grand Prix and led to his enrollment at the Academy of Theatre and Film in Budapest.
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Hungarian director Béla Tarr died on Tuesday 6 January at the age of 70. In 2005, he chose Bastia and his Old Port as the setting for his film "L'Homme de Londres".
“I will open a school and become a producer to protect some young filmmakers from this shit industry, which is always ordering directors to do.” In the fall of 2011 the filmmaker visited the Morelia International Film Festival to present his film The Horse of Turin. Earlier that year the film won, among many awards, the Grand Prize of the Jury and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin Festival, the first time that a film was the favorite of the jury …
Béla Tarr, Icon of Hungarian and World Cinema, Dies at 70 - Hungarian Conservative
Hungarian film director Béla Tarr has died at the age of 70 after a long and serious illness, his family announced in a statement sent to the press. They asked for privacy and understanding from the media and the public during this period of mourning. Widely regarded as the most internationally respected Hungarian filmmaker, Tarr was a defining figure of modern cinema. His films, most notably Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, achieved near-…
The Hungarian director Béla Tarr is dead. His films are the opposite of Netflix: endlessly slow, black-and-white, without happy endings. And yet they are considered masterpieces. Because also incarnation can be intoxicated.
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