|
List Price: $29.95Amazon.com's Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.96 (10%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 2 days
Buy Now!
This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: FACETS VIDEO
EAN: 0736899091224
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Facets
Manufacturer: Facets
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Facets
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 53981
Studio: Facets
Theatrical Release Date: 1988
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Description:
DAMNATION is the film that first brought universal acclaim to Europe's most daring filmmaker, Béla Tarr. His films are notable for long takes and atmospheric cinematography, and DAMNATION seethes with the director's existential melancholy and apocalyptic view of the world. Karrer, a hapless human wreck, is in love with a married cabaret singer in a Hungarian mining town. He longs for a better life with the singer, who wants to escape to work the nightclubs of the big cities. In a plot designed to give him more time with her, Karrer involves the singer's husband in a smuggling scheme, but his plans go awry. Béla Tarr (Satantango, Werckmeister Harmonies) has been compared to Tarkovsky and Antonioni and hailed as one of the most significant contemporary filmmakers in Europe.
Average Rating: 
Rating: -
Damnation (Bela Tarr, 1988)
Damnation is one of those movies that you're supposed to see. Unfortunately, like Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day or the movies of Theo Angelopoulos or the early works of Takashi Miike, that is often easier said than done, since Bela Tarr has gotten a reputation as a very, very heavy director whose work is antagonistic to the current American filmgoing mindset (Jonathan Rosenbaum, in an article on Tarr, sums it up thus: "If you're wondering why you haven't ... Read More
Rating:  -
Bela Tarr, is, well, his films are, shall we say "unique". I suppose that's a kind way of putting it.
Tarr is the kind of filmmaker whom you either love or hate. I've heard people call him pretenious and boring while others praise him as a master storyteller. A director of uncompromising vision. I think it says a lot that his films are able to provoke such strong feelings on either side. He's obviously reaching out to people.
Bela Tarr's films are usually compared to Andrei ... Read More
Rating:  -
I love Bela Tarr's work. It is reminiscent of Andrei Tarkovsky, even though it's Tarr's own. He does not copy Tarkovsky, but simply has much in common with him. This ranks among Tarr's best films. It takes place in a depressed mining town, where a man is attempting to get away from the town with the wife of a friend who he's having an affair with. The plot really isn't what matters so much in Tarr films. It's not what he says, but how he says it. It's in black and white, and it's very leisurely paced. ... Read More
Television Show
Collectibles
Movie Searches
|
|
|
Search for posters,
art prints, photos, collectables, merchandise, toys, t-shirts
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Join the Nielsen//NetRatings Research Panel and you could win a new car, a dream vacation, a dream home makeover or $50,000 Cash!
TV Guide
Program listings, celebrity profiles, industry
gossip, movie reviews, puzzle.
More
Entertainment
& TV Magazines
This site is
Hosted
by Bluehost
Read
my Bluehost Review
Original Superhero & other designs for t-shirts, bumper
stickers, prints, mugs, and other cool merchandise. |
|
