RIP Béla Tarr / László Krasznahorkai Wins the Nobel Prize

EPISODE · Feb 21, 2026 · 1H 48M

RIP Béla Tarr / László Krasznahorkai Wins the Nobel Prize

from Half of God’s Face Podcast · host Austin and Zach

Episode 26. Intro by Sampson Hollander. This is an extended conversation about Béla Tarr's life and work, which includes his collaboration with Nobel Prize winning novelist László Krasznahorkai. 6 minute 21 second mark, on Herscht 07769. 11 minutes 13 seconds on the development of the Tarr style. 13 minutes 26 seconds Krasznahorkai's explanation on his long sentences: "the river is the words." 14 minutes 40 second mark on Werkmeister Harmonies and The Melancholy of Resistance. 37 minutes 56 second mark on a great monologue from Damnation. 40 minutes 8 seconds "storytelling is bullshit." 42 minutes 25 second mark on Tarr's perspective on spirituality and the Bible. 47 minutes 8 second mark on The Turin Horse. 58 minutes 44 seconds Tarr's impact on fiction. 1 hour 2 minutes 31 seconds in a great quote from The Melancholy of Resistance is read. 1 hour 5 minutes 48 second mark on Satantango. 1 hour 25 minutes 1 seconds on slow cinema as a mode of filmmaking. 1 hour 35 minutes 42 seconds on The Outsider. 1 hour 39 minutes 39 seconds SPOILER for key scene being different in movie, as compared to Satantango book. 1 hour 43 minutes 29 seconds on Tarr's heavy stylistic reinforcements.

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