Béla Tarr In Person
Béla Tarr will make a special appearance to present four films from his acclaimed filmography, three of which are new restorations, from June 12–13 in the Walter Reade Theater.
Béla Tarr
2000|
Hungary / Germany / France|
145 minutes|
Hungarian with English subtitles
Directed with Ágnes Hranitzky and adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies stands among the defining achievements of Béla Tarr’s late period and remains one of his most widely celebrated works.
Béla Tarr
2007|
Hungary / Germany / France / Italy|
137 minutes|
English, French, and Hungarian with English subtitles
In his penultimate film, codirected with Ágnes Hranitzky, Béla Tarr adapts a Georges Simenon thriller about a railway switchman who retrieves a suitcase filled with stolen money, which gradually estranges him from his wife (Tilda Swinton) and daughter.
Béla Tarr
1979|
Hungary|
105 minutes|
Hungarian with English subtitles
Béla Tarr’s striking debut, made at age 22, immerses us in the suffocating life of a multigenerational Budapest household during a housing crisis, revealing the real-time tension and command of duration that would define his later work.
Béla Tarr
1981|
Hungary|
128 minutes|
Hungarian with English subtitles
Shot in color with raw handheld immediacy, The Outsider widens Béla Tarr’s social canvas, following a young violinist whose fragile ambitions buckle under economic strain and personal irresponsibility.
Béla Tarr makes a special appearance at Film at Lincoln Center to present four films from his acclaimed filmography, three of which are new restorations, from June 12–13 in the Walter Reade Theater.
The program follows co-presenter American Cinematheque’s Los Angeles in-person retrospective with the filmmaker: “Boundless Damnation: The Films of Béla Tarr.”
In addition to the previously announced 4K restoration of Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky’s Werckmeister Harmonies, currently playing daily at FLC, thee three-day series includes Family Nest, a new 2K restoration of Tarr’s striking debut feature about a seven-member family sharing a small apartment during a national housing crisis that offers a pungent critique of patriarchy in all its forms; The Man From London, a prime example of Tarr’s utterly distinctive vision, baleful and radiant and as voluptuous as it is bleak, about a railway switchman who retrieves a suitcase filled with stolen money; and a new 2K restoration of The Outsider, Tarr’s gritty second feature, a finely wrought portrait of everyday despair that follows an aimless young musician drifting through a series of jobs—and women—in a Budapest that offers little possibility of la vie bohème.
Organized by Florence Almozini and Dan Sullivan. Co-presented with the American Cinematheque and Janus Films.
Acknowledgments:
Special thanks to Chris Lemaire and Grant Moninger, American Cinematheque; Emily Woodburne, Janus Films; Amila Ramovic and Béla Tarr.
For $30, receive one ticket to a film in Béla Tarr In Person and a select menu item at Café Paradiso, located in FLC’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Learn more about our dinner and a movie combo here.
