Movie Talk (New Films, Old Films... doesn't matter) (71 Viewers)
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PostIronic told me about that one as well 
I just wanted to watch his older stuff first to get to know his work better. I'm gonna watch it these days surely. The Secret of Kells surprised me quite a lot. That unique style of animations pretty much blew my mind, so much creativity in it, it's insane.
Oh and btw just last night I watched the first episode of Movie Fights. There are all episodes on youtube btw. Shortly, there's a judge and 3 guys discussing 10 random questions about movies, each giving his opinion about it etc. Sadly they just cover mainstream movies but I still find it very interesting to watch. One episode lasts for one hour or so.
I just wanted to watch his older stuff first to get to know his work better. I'm gonna watch it these days surely. The Secret of Kells surprised me quite a lot. That unique style of animations pretty much blew my mind, so much creativity in it, it's insane. Oh and btw just last night I watched the first episode of Movie Fights. There are all episodes on youtube btw. Shortly, there's a judge and 3 guys discussing 10 random questions about movies, each giving his opinion about it etc. Sadly they just cover mainstream movies but I still find it very interesting to watch. One episode lasts for one hour or so.
Song of the Sea - Brilliant. 
Massive props for bringing it up in this thread some time ago. I even learned your new weird hipster novel character name to show my appreciation.I did make the grave mistake of watching the movie in a somewhat tired state, so at the beginning the slow long walking takes kinda made me question my choice of movie, but I'm glad I continued watching. I mean goddamn, the first whale scene and the hospital assault 
Besides the obviously outstanding cinematography the accompanying music was used to an incredible effect. I struggle to remember any movie were the soundtrack actually resonated that much inside of me.
Some great symbolism as well, especially as its meaning seems rather evasive, if there even is a clear one to be found.
Besides Satantango (won't have the time for it the next few months at least), what's the best Bela Tarr movie after this?
Besides the obviously outstanding cinematography the accompanying music was used to an incredible effect. I struggle to remember any movie were the soundtrack actually resonated that much inside of me. Some great symbolism as well, especially as its meaning seems rather evasive, if there even is a clear one to be found.
Besides Satantango (won't have the time for it the next few months at least), what's the best Bela Tarr movie after this?
I did make the grave mistake of watching the movie in a somewhat tired state, so at the beginning the slow long walking takes kinda made me question my choice of movie, but I'm glad I continued watching. I mean goddamn, the first whale scene and the hospital assault Besides the obviously outstanding cinematography the accompanying music was used to an incredible effect. I struggle to remember any movie were the soundtrack actually resonated that much inside of me.
Some great symbolism as well, especially as its meaning seems rather evasive, if there even is a clear one to be found.
Besides Satantango (won't have the time for it the next few months at least), what's the best Bela Tarr movie after this?
Besides the obviously outstanding cinematography the accompanying music was used to an incredible effect. I struggle to remember any movie were the soundtrack actually resonated that much inside of me. Some great symbolism as well, especially as its meaning seems rather evasive, if there even is a clear one to be found.
Besides Satantango (won't have the time for it the next few months at least), what's the best Bela Tarr movie after this?
If I had to rank his films...
1) Werckmeister Harmonies
2) Satantango
3a) The Turin Horse
3b) Damnation
3c) The Man From London
6) Almanac of Fall
7) Prefab People
8) Family Nest
9) The Outsider
I can never choose between the 3 after Satantango and Werckmeister Harmonies. They're all very good, but not quite transcendent like those 2. The Turin Horse is interesting, beautiful, and brilliant, but it's so bloody dry comparatively speaking. I'm still unsure whether it's actually an enjoyable experience...
Damnation and The Man From London are much more interesting and enjoyable to watch, but nowhere near as brilliant perhaps. His use of music in film is very special. It's probably the best I've come across. It's almost overwhelming at times, the effect it seems to have on me, when I watch his films. The music just seems to be organic and living within the tracking shots, as though the two could not be separated no matter how hard one tried. If I recall correctly, Mihaly Vig does a lot of the scores.
I'm happy you enjoyed it. That hospital scene is probably one of the most powerful scenes in all of cinema. It's just so... can't think of the word... all-encompassing. As is the first scene with the whale. Or even the opening with the solar eclipse out of drunkards in the tavern. It's a film made up of incredibly powerful moments, interspersed with the emptiness of a day-to-day reality between.
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Béla Tarr worked almost exclusively with the novelist László Krasznahorkai. A brilliant writer. Werckmeister Harmonies is an adaptation of the novel The Melancholy of Resistance. I highly recommend it, along with all of Krasznahorkai's major novels. Satantango (nowhere near as long as film... 400 pages perhaps); War & War; Seeiobo There Below
