Béla Tarr Regis Dialogue with Howard Feinstein

[szilicium111]

Szarházi Tarrházi

[AmakiriBestman]

"...and long monologues"... after Feinstein had been talking for almost 5 minutes straight. That made me chuckle. Such a dry sense of humour. I don't think Feinstein got the joke though.

[ulver121]

wow great post !!!!

amazing director who inspire me to be a fillmmaker

thanks or share

:)

[udubidub]

Nobody tells a creator.

[ahilito]

ironic that a recorded interview with Bela Tarr uses so many different camera angles

[Bjarte83]

The dancing scene in Satantango is among the funniest scenes ever made. The actors were actually drunk and improvising when they were filming it. The film is a masterpiece and imo Tarr's greatest work.

Btw awkward silence @ 10:32 :)

[chrislandaverdedf]

Is this a show of a critic showing off in presence of the auteur????

[chrislandaverdedf]

Is this an interview or a cult? ...or the record of a Critic's show off?

[waroidot]

No doubt, he is a great director and his films are intricately beautiful portrays of the human kind but to be honest, I'm not quite sure how and why he earned his cult status in world cinema.

[waroidot]

Some might find him arrogant and if he comes across as that, it is mainly because of his broken English. I was born in Hungary and grew up around that time when he shot his first films so I think I understand where he's coming from. What's more shocking is the insurmountable gap between the critic dude and him. He is trying to read a lot more into his films than there really is in them and missing the point completely. That's why Béla tells him to "watch the clip again".

[thprmr]

"Watch the movie again". What an asshole. That isn't the right way to say something, even if you're an artist and made the best film ever seen. He doesn't even respects the film critic vision about the character. Again, what an asshole.

[kocourhospoda]

watch the interview again.

[thprmr]

@kocourhospoda To be honest, I do think the film critique was very arrogant. The problem is that if you're an artist, showing your work to the world, you can't say things that way even if you're right. He could have said something like "I can understand your point of view, but that's not mine" and avoid saying that stupid shit he said.

[Garyrthk]

I don't find him arrogant. You don't TELL a filmmaker what his film is about. You ask him if you are not sure. I interviewed Bela Tarr a couple of years ago and he was fine. My interview is on youtube too. He can be a very difficult interviewee if he feels you are not on the same wavelength, but I liked him a lot and found him a wonderfully compassionate man. It probably helped that I am in complete awe of many of his films.

[TenderHistoryInRust]

He makes some of the most beautiful cinema ever made, specifically Satantango and Werckmiester Harmonies but he is a complete pretentious ass

[lazzzable]

I completely agree giorgio

[who3697cares]

The greatest living director. Screw Scorsese and Tarantino and Spielberg and all those other hacks!

[fripper00]

Great artist and a very interesting man. BTW, he looks like a guy from some old rock'n'roll band. It surprised me a little (positively). It wasn't something I would expect from a filmmaker like that. He could be Lenny's (from Motorhead) brother.

[giorgiomichello]

@ 10:10 or thereabouts-after Bela explains that the "key" to his works is based on basic human dignity:

Feinstein: "I find it interesting that you use 'outsiders' to make this point"

Bela: (less incredulous than he has every right to be) "Yes, they have human life"

This brief exchange illustrates the insurmountable gulf between artists and critics probably more explicitly than anything I've ever seen.

[cineasta71]

@Giorgio...i fully agree with you. In my opinion the main difference is that critics are not artists or even thinkers. Journalism is not even an art of any shape or form. Bela is a very interesting artist.

[janchatko]

@cineasta71

Have you not enjoyed this clip? Would Bela Tarr make it himself, with no invitation and external (even from a 'non-thinker' (?)) questioning? Why did he agree to do the interview if journalism and criticism is such a lowly thing?

[cineasta71]

@janchatko I am sure that he agreed for promotion of his latest film. You can

tell that he's laughing at the guy saying..."Nahh you have to

watch the film again...is not like that. Bela tarr should have

been interview by a filmmaker, those are interesting because you

learn something and they better. Im not justifiying his arrogance but you

can tell that HE has to do this interview.

[jkhgsdhgdhgjklsdhfgj]

@giorgiomichello very precise observation. "beverly hills is also marginalized, because its not the society". uuuuuuuhhhhh.... right on the theet! Bela can be gracefully violent with his speech. this man has emotion pumping in his veins.

[shaunmohagan]

@giorgiomichello superb comment. totally agree.

[jkhgsdhgdhgjklsdhfgj]

"it´s not social, it´s not ontologial, it´s cosmical, the shit is cosmical"

now we are talking. let´s do the thing.

[halfasianDeForrest]

beautiful.. one shot.

gotta love Tarr.

thanks alot for posting this.

[cineasta71]

true artist and poet...

[AntonioDGO]

great stuff, thanks