Rated: NR    Runtime: 139/146
Saturday, July 7 – Wednesday, July 11

Béla Tarr, the Hungarian master of the measured-pace, real-time dramas that penetrate the murk of human existence has announced he has finished with film. Bad news for us who have already clocked in countless hours shadowing the desperate lives of his proletariat protagonists as they negotiate their beauti- fully bleak, black & white environs. As we incredulously bid Béla bye-bye, the Roxie proposes two, little-seen titles from this titan of long-form minimalism and his longtime collaborator, the novelist László Krasznahorkai, both presented in 35mm.

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THE MAN FROM LONDON
Maloin leads a simple life without prospects at the edge of the infinite sea; he barely notices the world around him, has already accepted the slow and inevi- table deterioration of life around him and his all but complete loneliness. When he becomes a witness to a murder, his life takes a sudden turn. He comes face to face with issues of morality, sin, punishment, and the line between innocence and complicity in a crime that leads him to question of the meaning and worth of existence. The film is about desire, man’s indestructible longing for a life of freedom and happiness, and about illusions never to be realized. Dirs: Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky. With Miroslav Krobot, Tilda Swinton, Ági Szirtes & János Derzsi. 2007. In French & English with English subtitles. 35mm, 139 mins. Nightly at 6:30pm, plus Sat. + Sun. at 1pm (M)

THE TURIN HORSE
In 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed a cart driver beating a horse that refused to move, and threw himself, sobbing, on the animal’s neck. According to legend, this event signaled the onset of a mental breakdown from which Nietzsche never recovered. Somewhere in the countryside, the cab driver lives with his daughter and the overworked horse. Outside, a windstorm rages. The horse still refuses to move, and the man and his daughter struggle through their daily schedule. Food and water grow scarce. Beggars and gypsies come to their door. The horse stops eating. Slowly, the apocalypse approaches. Shot in black-and-white, in only 30 takes by regular cinematographer Fred Kelemen, Tarr has announced that The Turin Horse is his last movie. Dirs: Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky. With Janos Derzsi, Erika Bok, Mihaly Kormos, & Risci the horse. 2011. In Hungarian with English subtitles, 35mm, 146 mins. Nightly at 9:15pm, plus Sat. + Sun. at 3:45pm (M)