Janus Films: First Look at New 4K Restoration of Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies
HomeJanus Films: First Look at New 4K Restoration of Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies
Posted May 5, 2023 06:29 PM by Webmaster
Janus Films has provided a promotional trailer for the new 4K restoration of Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), starring Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, János Derzsi, and Mihály Kormos. The restoration will open in New York at Film at Lincoln Center on May 26.
Also included with this article is a brand new poster for the film
Preliminary plans for an upcoming Blu-ray release have not yet been revealed.
Description: One of the major achievements of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Béla Tarr's mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by the celebrated writer and frequent Tarr collaborator László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown era in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus—complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince—arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens, which builds inexorably toward violence and destruction. In thirty-nine of his signature long takes, engraved in ghostly black and white, Tarr conjures an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.
Also included with this article is a brand new poster for the film
Preliminary plans for an upcoming Blu-ray release have not yet been revealed.
Description: One of the major achievements of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Béla Tarr's mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by the celebrated writer and frequent Tarr collaborator László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown era in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus—complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince—arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens, which builds inexorably toward violence and destruction. In thirty-nine of his signature long takes, engraved in ghostly black and white, Tarr conjures an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.
