RIP Béla Tarr

his later work ranked and reviewed

Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr has died at the age of 70. His career is cleanly split into an early period and a later period, and it is the latter that distinguished him as a cinematic genius of singular vision and devastating humanism. Tarr was the king of “slow cinema,” turning endless takes into meditations on time itself, the way we look, and the il…