Monthly Archives: November 2006

Miklos Jancso: The Lord’s Lantern in Budapest

And then there’s this puzzler. Made in 1999 after a long break, this film sees Jancso and longtime writer Gyula Hernadi abandoning any indicators of their previous, consistent style. Most notably, there are no long takes in this film, making it nearly unrecognizable as a Jancso movie. Instead, we have 105 rather long minutes of [...]

14 November 2006, 00:57 Comments (0)

Miklos Jancso: God Walks Backwards

13 November 2006, 08:01 Comments (0)

Miklos Jancso: Winter Wind (Sirokko)

Jancso is already in my pantheon of genius directors, all the more from coming out of the backwaters of Eastern Europe under Communism; I can’t think of another of his contemporaries that even approaches him. The Round-Up is a brilliant, taut exercise in Kafka-esque consequentiality, and The Red and the White is simply one of [...]

7 November 2006, 16:00 Comments (2)