Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)
<b>BLEAK WEEK SERIES: CINEMA OF DESPAIR</b>, SPONSORED BY THIRD PLANET BOUTIQUE. NO RED PASSES FOR WEEKEND AND EVENING SHOWS <div><b>SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER</b>: FILM CRITIC AND WWU PROFESSOR EREN ODABASI<br><div><b>FILM DESCRIPTION</b>: 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, <i>Werckmeister Harmonies </i>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.</div></div><div><br></div><div><b>ABOUT OUR GUEST</b>: </div><div>Frequent guest speaker for the PFC's Cinema East series, Eren Odabasi's <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">research and teaching interests include global cinema, media policy and governance, diasporic filmmakers and audiences, and auteur theory. He has presented and published several articles on film festivals, transnational film production, and the cinemas of India. His scholarly articles have appeared in journals such as <i>New Review of Film and Television Studies</i>, <i>Post Script</i>, and <i>The Global South</i>. As a film critic, he has written extensively for <i>Altyazi</i>, the oldest and most widely read film monthly in Turkey. In recognition of his work in film criticism, he was invited to the Talents Program of the Berlin International Film Festival twice and served as a jury member in the Semaine de la Critique section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2013.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></div>DramaPT2H19M2026-06-06Lars Rudolph
Peter Fitz
Hanna Schygulla
Béla Tarr
Joachim von Vietinghoff
Paul Saadoun
Miklós Szita
Franz Goëss
Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)"Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)"Showtimes
June 6, 2:00 pm
June 6, 6:00 pm
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