- Description:
- BluRay - Zone A. viewing copy. 2 videodiscs of 2.
24 fps
Titles
+ Sátántangó
- Director:
- Tarr, Béla
- Production Co:
- Mozgókép Innovációs Társulás és Alapítvány; Von Vietinghoff Filmproduktion (VVF); Vega Film
- Running Time:
- Feature. 138 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Hungary, Germany, Switzerland
- Year:
- 1994
- Language:
- Hungarian with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Slow Cinema, Art House, Experimental / Avant Garde, Drama
- Notes:
- One of the greatest achievements in recent art house cinema and a seminal work of “slow cinema,” ‘Sátántangó’, based on the novel by László Krasznahorkai, follows the members of a humble agricultural community living in a bleak and punishing backwater after the fall of Communism. As a few of the villagers secretly conspire to take off with all of the town’s annual earnings for themselves, a mysterious messiah, long thought dead, returns to the village and alters the course of everyone’s lives forever.
Shot in stunning black-and-white by Gábor Medvigy and filled with exquisitely composed long takes, ‘Sátántangó’ unfolds in twelve distinct movements, alternating forwards and backwards in time, echoing the structure of a tango dance. Béla Tarr’s vision, aided by longtime partner and collaborator Ágnes Hranitzky, is enthralling and his portrayal of a rural Hungary beset by drunken revelry, treachery, and near-perpetual rainfall is both transfixing and uncompromising. ‘Sátántangó’ has been justly lauded by critics and audiences as a masterpiece and has been restored on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
New 4K restoration from original 35mm negative, with new English subtitle translation.
Note: Film is split into three parts on this release. Parts 1 & 2 are on Disc 1; Part 3 is on Disc 2. Parts 1 & 2 end with “Intermission” intertitle and return to disc menu.
Part 1 - 02:17:33
Part 2 - 02:04:34
Part 3 - 02:57:26
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ A Sense of Rhythm - An Interview With Composer and Actor Mihály Víg
- Production Co:
- Arbelos
- Running Time:
- Short. 41 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - dolby digital stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Hungary
- Year:
- 2020
- Language:
- Hungarian with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Interview
+ Orders of Time in Motion - A Video Essay by Kevin B. Lee
- Production Co:
- Arbelos
- Running Time:
- Short. 20 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - dolby digital stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2020
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Video Essay
+ 2007 Archival Interview with Director Béla Tarr
- Running Time:
- Short. 23 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - dolby digital stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2007
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Interview, Archival Footage
+ Sátántangó [Trailer]
- Running Time:
- Trailer. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - dolby digital stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Hungary, USA
- Year:
- 1994
- Language:
- Hungarian with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Trailer