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WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES Restoration Trailer: Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky’s Sensation Returns To Theaters

M.J. O'Toole — Fri, 05 May 2023 20:51:52 +0000

One of the most iconic, innovative, and inspirational filmmakers of the last few decades is Béla Tarr. His films – some of which he co-directed with his wife Ágnes Hranitzky – include the 8-hour phenomenon Sátántangó and his awe-inspiring supposed […]

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THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS

Mike S. Ryan — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 17:03:40 +0000

(Writer/Director Robert Machoian’s The Killing of Two Lovers has been building a steady buzz since it’s debut at Sundance. The film is playing at the Lincoln Center’s New Directors/New Films series December 9-20. Like what you see here on Hammer […]

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Mike S. Ryan’s (Very Biased) Favorite Low-Budget Indies Of The Decade

Mike S. Ryan — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 20:02:12 +0000

Mike S. Ryan’s very biased 25 fave low budget American Indies of the ‘10 Decade. 1. Moonlight-Barry Jenkins 2. Meek’s Cutoff/Certain Woman– Kelly Reichardt 3. The Rider-Chloe Zhao 4. The Fits– Anna Rose Holmer 5. It Felt Like Love– Eliza […]

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ON THE FRINGE, PART EIGHT: WENDY AND LUCY (2008)

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:03:47 +0000

There is an astonishing, heart-rending scene toward the middle of Kelly Reichardt’s pitch-perfect, Wendy and Lucy, an ascetic touching-without-being-cloying chronicle of a nomadic young girl (Michelle Williams), her dog Lucy and her broken-down car stuck outside of Portland, Oregon on her star-cross’d way […]

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A Cinematography Master Class With TIM ORR

Michael Tully — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:54:41 +0000

[On Saturday, December 1, 2012, I moderated a Cinematography Master Class with Tim Orr at the Austin Film Society. As I found it to be an informative and useful discussion, the AFS and Mr. Orr have kindly allowed me to […]

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TURIN HORSE, THE

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:37:56 +0000

A distillation of Beckettian liminal anxiety Beckett himself would’ve had trouble committing so fully to the screen, The Turin Horse stays in your brain like tar in your lungs.

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A Conversation With Bela Tarr (THE TURIN HORSE)

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:02:01 +0000

“Just remember,” grins Béla Tarr, on a hot November day in Los Angeles, “outside the sun is shining.” He’s pitying, comforting, and mocking his audience as they settle in for an AFI Fest screening of his final and most uncompromising […]

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TAKE SHELTER

Michael Tully — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:30:57 +0000

Take Shelter is a modern American masterpiece.

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TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY, THE

Michael Tully — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:02:39 +0000

Once upon a time, while vacationing in Estonia, Bela Tarr watched a double-bill of Dead Man and Lost Highway and went to sleep. Then he had a dream. The Temptation of St. Tony is that dream, transferred to black-and-white 35mm celluloid.

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WHOLPHIN NO. 11

Michael Tully — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:02:26 +0000

(Wholphin No. 11 is distributed by McSweeney’s and can be purchased at Amazon, though what you really need to do is go to the Wholphin website and purchase a subscription. ) Everybody knows by now that Wholphin, the quarterly DVD […]

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