Notes on the End of a World – The Films of Béla Tarr
What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but...
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Tag: The Man from London
2019 – The Year in Review
December 10, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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Another year comes to an end and perhaps you’re as tired of “end of year” lists as I am. Every December (and increasingly every November),...
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The nocturnal and the slow
April 30, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Béla Tarr's The Man from London (2007) impressed me with its images that had been shot at night. The almost complete blackness of the night, seen...
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Los Ausentes – Nicolas Pereda (2014)
June 9, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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Knowing Nicolas Pereda's early work, I'd be inclined to say that his medium long film Los Ausentes marks a new era in his filmmaking. The trailer...
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Malaventura – Michel Lipkes (2011)
November 22, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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The last day in the life of an elderly man - this is the entire premise of Michel Lipkes' wonderful debut feature. Once more, I...
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Slow Cinema, trauma and therapy
October 22, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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I set up this blog in the autumn of 2012, at the start of my doctoral research. It's funny just how much the original subject...
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Review: The Cinema of Béla Tarr – András Bálint Kovács
April 19, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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Kovács' book is not the first book on Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr. Jacques Rancière has equally published a book, though rather slim, about Tarr, titled...
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The (in)significance of dialogue
April 3, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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While adding a few paragraphs to my chapter on Lav Diaz's Death in the Land of Encantos (2007), it occurred to me that for some slow...
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Day 17 – The Man from London (Tarr)
December 17, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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This film has to be in this year's advent calendar. Bela Tarr's The Man from London (2007) was the very first slow film I watched....
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