The cinephile’s Mount Everest, director Béla Tarr’s massive, magisterial, 439-minute “Sátántangó” gets two rare screenings at the Museum of Fine Arts this weekend. This is one of the film events of ...

Tarr: confronted with his films, critics were astonished to discover that cinema could produce something so challenging and absorbing at the same time - SAMUEL ARANDA/AFP via Getty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Béla Tarr, the Hungarian filmmaker and “slow cinema” pioneer acclaimed for his dark, apocalyptic films including “Damnation” and ...

The Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr, renowned for his dark and apocalyptic films like Damnation and Satantango, referred to as the slow cinema movement founder, died at the age of 70 on Tuesday. The ...

Released in 1994, Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr’s epic art film is nearly seven-and-a-half hours long. So, yeah, cancel all your plans for the rest of the day if you choose to sit in a darkened ...

What’s black and white, speaks Hungarian, and is 37,204 feet long? Don’t look now, Nashville, but it will soon be in your midst. It is a phantom, a behemoth that only a comparative few have ever ...

The world of Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr, whose 1994 masterpiece, “Satantango,” screens Saturday and Sunday at Facets Multimedia, is aptly summarized by the title of one of his best movies, ...

The Hungarian director Béla Tarr’s 1994 film “Sátántangó,” which I discuss in the clip above, is based on the first novel by László Krasznahorkai, who co-wrote the screenplay with Tarr, and who is the ...

Béla Tarr's seven-hour masterpiece will return to theaters after 25 years. Unlike most filmmakers who retire, Béla Tarr has actually stuck to this word. 2011’s “The Turin Horse” was indeed the ...

Béla Tarr, the Hungarian filmmaker and “slow cinema” pioneer acclaimed for his dark, apocalyptic films including “Damnation” and “Sátántangó,” has died. He was 70. The European Film Academy, of which ...