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The controversial cat sequence in "Sátántangó" (1994) led to some difficulties in getting the film screened in the United Kingdom, due to legislation protecting nonhuman animals from cruelty and the British Board of Film Classification refusing to certify such films. Tarr insisted the scene was filmed humanely under a... show more

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Béla Tarr on the censorship of the State and the censorship of the market: "Interviewer: Did you attend a film school? Tarr: I went to film school after my first movie. Because you know at that time everybody needed a diploma. It was communist time, if you wanted to be a filmmaker you had to study in the official film school. But first I made a movie (laughs). Interviewer: Did you suffer from censorship? Tarr: I think censorship is always there. Then it was the censorship of the state and now it’s the censorship of the market. Some differences but . . . Interviewer: Otar Iosseliani, the Georgian director, was telling me the same, that the censorship of the big audience is worse that the censorship of the state, because you only get money for movies made for the big audience. Tarr: Yes, he is right. Because during the communist area you knew you had to make some tricks here and there, like a snake, and if you were very fast and you had some good ideas, you could do it. I really did what I wanted. We had a lot of difficulties, but finally we could make the movies." (Béla Tarr's interview with Eric Schlosser, Bright Lights Film Journal, 2000) P.S: On this day, 26 years ago, "Werckmeister Harmonies" (2000) premiered at the Cinedecouvertes Age D'or Film Festival Brussels, Belgium.

Béla Tarr on the censorship of the State and the censorship of the market: "Interviewer: Did you attend a film school? Tarr: I went to film school after my first movie. Because you know at that time everybody needed a diploma. It was communist time, if you wanted to be a filmmaker you had to study in the official film school. But first I made a movie (laughs). Interviewer: Did you suffer from censorship? Tarr: I think censorship is always there. Then it was the censorship of the state and now it’s the censorship of the market. Some differences but . . . Interviewer: Otar Iosseliani, the Georgian director, was telling me the same, that the censorship of the big audience is worse that the censorship of the state, because you only get money for movies made for the big audience. Tarr: Yes, he is right. Because during the communist area you knew you had to make some tricks here and there, like a snake, and if you were very fast and you had some good ideas, you could do it. I really did what I wanted. We had a lot of difficulties, but finally we could make the movies." (Béla Tarr's interview with Eric Schlosser, Bright Lights Film Journal, 2000) P.S: On this day, 26 years ago, "Werckmeister Harmonies" (2000) premiered at the Cinedecouvertes Age D'or Film Festival Brussels, Belgium.

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RIP Béla Tarr, director of one of my favorite movies ever, Sátántangó. One of the best to ever work in the Slow Cinema space, his molasses-like pacing paints a perfect portrait of aimlessness and hopelessness in a quiet and resigned way. A one-of-a-kind director.

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When "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975) was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, the audience laughed at the opening credits. However, the projector stopped and the audience just roared with laughter, thinking it was all part of this movie. It turned out there was a bomb scare, and firemen came in, stopped the screening and made everyone in the cinema go outside. John Cleese talking about the hilarious incident: "No one had ever mentioned to me about these hilarious credits that Michael Palin had written so I sat down expecting to see a perfectly normal set of credits at the front of the movie and there was all this wonderful Nordic stuff about moose. We first screened this at the Cannes Film Festival. These subtitles got huge laughs and right at the end of [the sequence] the film stopped and everyone laughed and applauded. Then these men in French fireman uniforms with gold helmets came racing in and stopped the film and we had to go outside. It was a bomb scare. And everybody thought it was part of the film. It was perfectly timed because it was just after the credits so it didn’t interrupt anything. That was a good start." (From "Special Edition DVD" audio commentary of the movie, transcript taken from Artofthetitle(dot)com) P.S: On this day, 51 years ago, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975) premiered in Los Angeles, USA.

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