The Guardian spoke with genius Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr about his 2011 retirement and why he's teaching 20-somethings about art in Sarajevo.
Tarr's films are not to everyone's tastes, but I find them rather captivating. It is not hyperbole to say that absolutely no one makes or has made films like Tarr. I have not seen them all, but my favorite of those I have is The Turin Horse, which was his final film. It is about two and a half hours long and contains only 29 cuts. Long shots are his signature shot. Satantango, perhaps his most famous film, is seven and a half hours long.
If you'd rather not invest such time into one of Tarr's films blindly, here's a 40 minute essay that offers a decent introduction to his work. Below that I've linked two you can currently watch for free.
The Turin Horse is online in its entirety, as is Werckmeister Harmonies.
Via Metafilter.
