“Béla Tarr’s films remind us of the strange and beautiful potential of narrative cinema.” – Jim Jarmusch

“One of the best films ever made . . . a seven-hour masterpiece.” – IndieWire

Film at Lincoln Center, in partnership with Arbelos, is pleased to be the exclusive venue to open the new restoration of Béla Tarr’s masterpiece Sátántangó in our Virtual Cinema beginning Friday, April 17. Pre-order here. This new restoration was a selection at the 57th New York Film Festival last fall, followed by a week of sold-out screenings when it opened at FLC in October. Due to popular demand, the film returned for encore screenings in December. We’re delighted to once more offer audiences the chance to experience this extraordinary 7.5-hour cinematic achievement, which will be available for $14.99 in our Virtual Cinema. Film at Lincoln Center members will receive $3 off their screening purchase. Not a member? Become one today!

Among the world’s most respected and transformative filmmakers, Béla Tarr—whose final film, The Turin Horse, played at NYFF49—made his international breakthrough with this astonishing, singular adaptation of the novel by László Krasznahorkai about the arrival of a false prophet in a small farming collective during the waning days of Communism. Divided into 12 distinct episodes, this seven-and-a-half hour masterpiece weaves in and out of the lives of the locals as the silver-tongued Irimiás (played by Tarr’s longtime musical composer Mihály Vig) promises a bright future in a new promised land. This bleak yet mordantly funny study of domestic and social decay was ranked 36th on the most recent Sight & Sound critics’ poll of the greatest film ever made. Sátántangó has been restored in 4K from the original 35mm camera negative by Arbelos in collaboration with the Hungarian Filmlab. An Arbelos release.

This screening purchase will support FLC, and help us in our mission to remain a vibrant center for cinema culture once this turbulent period is behind us. Learn more here.

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