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BELA TARR: A Curzon Collection

Published December 4, 2024 by Warren Ellis

It’s finally here. And finally I have a complete collection of Bela Tarr’s films in high quality editions.

Available UK and, it now seems, US+. But probably the same edition, which means it’s region locked.

One folder of blu-rays, one packet containing the book and the little posters.

It’s beautifully made. Half the size of the Criterion Ingmar Bergman, but will look quite nice next to it.

For me, Bela Tarr is one of the most important filmmakers of the last fifty years, and I’m delighted to have this, to finally own all he did, and to be able to extend my study of his work.

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Morning Computer: Dead Time

Published December 3, 2024 by Warren Ellis

What comes after history?

Temps mort. Dead time.

Nadim Mai excerpts her essay on Bela Tarr for the imminent remastered collection of his films. I love Tarr’s films, and think about them constantly, in the same way that his collaborator Krasznahorkai thinks constantly about Kafka.

Relating to that essay, Matt Webb:

The late 90s was liberalism in the ascendant; the triumph of capitalism (not yet neoliberalism) but tempered still (we weren’t aware) by the post-war social contract; pre 9/11; no internet in mainstream culture.

You could say we had our heads in the sand, and we did, enjoying the middle years of the long boom and the end of history and the benevolent shadow of the Pax Americana, meanwhile chucking missiles into Afghanistan and not really thinking about what they’d do.

We didn’t have the end of the world again until quite recently.

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Finally, The Complete Bela Tarr

Published August 17, 2024 by Warren Ellis

I could not resist preordering this. I was never able to complete my Bela Tarr collection – some films were just impossible to find.

And now, there it is: a complete Tarr filmography, with some new remasters in there. (UK only, it seems.)

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