by Lev Dudas | Sep 29, 2023
The Turin Horse (Hungarian: A torinói ló) is a 2011 Hungarian drama film directed by Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, starring János Derzsi, Erika Bók and Mihály Kormos. It was co-written by Tarr and his frequent collaborator László Krasznahorkai. It recalls the...
by Lev Dudas | Sep 29, 2023
Stalker (Russian: Сталкер) is a 1979 Soviet science fiction art film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic. The film tells the story of an expedition led by a figure...
by Lev Dudas | Sep 29, 2023
Commissioned for the 1971 Shiraz-Persepolis Arts Festival, an Iranian institution which lasted from 1967 to 1977, Persepolis was one more work in an enormous variety of classical and avant-garde art productions from all over the globe that gathered and met at one of...
by Lev Dudas | Sep 29, 2023
Iannis Xenakis (29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer. After 1947, he fled Greece, becoming a naturalised citizen of France eighteen years later. Xenakis...
by Lev Dudas | Oct 24, 2022
Olé Coltrane is an album by jazz musician John Coltrane released in November 1961 on Atlantic Records. Coltrane’s interest in the music of Spain evident in “Olé”, may have been spurred by his ex-employer Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain from the...