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      <title>Film:Sátántangó</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/films/S_t_ntang/91087/default.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<table width='100%' style='font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><tr><td><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s91087.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' /></td>
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<strong>Title:</strong> Sátántangó<br/>
<strong>Year:</strong> 2008<br/>
<strong>Director:</strong> Béla Tarr<br/>
<strong>Plot:</strong> This European epic is seven hours long. It is adapted from a novel by Laszlo Karsznahorkai and reflects the obsession of director Bela Tarr who began the film seven years ago. It took two full years to film this opus. The story is presented through a series of chapters of varying lengths with titles like "The News That They are Coming," "We, the Resurrected," "The Freeze," "Only Problems and Work." and finally "The Circle Is Completed." The enormously complex saga is centered in an abandoned farm machinery plant upon a Hungarian plain. There live a small band of hobos including three couples, a doctor with a drinking problem. All of them want to leave and they will do anything they can to do it. A set series of events occurs, but the story presents those events from each of the different character's viewpoints. The film ends on an ironic note. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide<br/>
<strong>Number of Lists:</strong> 5<br/>
<strong>Number of blog posts:</strong> 3<br/>
<strong>Number of discussion threads:</strong> 5<br/>
<strong>SpoutRating:</strong> 4<br/>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Weekly Theme for April 27: 3+ Hours</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_April_27_3_Hours/625/41888/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s91087.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5353/default.aspx'>Risselada</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/625/discussions.aspx'>Weekly Theme</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 4/29/2009 5:08:28 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="leeroy711"] I was so sure you were gonna mention The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. But alas, according to this website, it only kills 179 minutes................... one short. [/quote] Ha!  You are right.  I'm surprised I DIDN'T mention it!!!  And the version you are mentioning is actually the very recently released re-cut with new scenes added that were originally cut.  So the version most people are familiar with is actually only 161 minutes. I'm also waiting until the next time Facets in Chicago here shows S&aacute;t&aacute;ntang&oacute;.  B&eacute;la Tarr's seven and a half hour long, black and white masterwork that I've been told is actually a breeze to sit through.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:08:28 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>Weekly Theme</spout:postto><spout:postdate>4/29/2009 5:08:28 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="leeroy711"] I was so sure you were gonna mention The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. But alas, according to this website, it only kills 179 minutes................... one short. [/quote] Ha!  You are right.  I'm surprised I DIDN'T mention it!!!  And the version you are mentioning is actually the very recently released re-cut with new scenes added that were originally cut.  So the version most people are familiar with is actually only 161 minutes. I'm also waiting until the next time Facets in Chicago here shows S&amp;aacute;t&amp;aacute;ntang&amp;oacute;.  B&amp;eacute;la Tarr's seven and a half hour long, black and white masterwork that I've been told is actually a breeze to sit through.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Branjelina have good taste</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Friends_of_Foreign_Flicks/Re_Branjelina_have_good_taste/591/39754/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s91087.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5353/default.aspx'>Risselada</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Friends_of_Foreign_Flicks/591/discussions.aspx'>Friends of Foreign Flicks</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/21/2009 2:09:52 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="seely"] Heh--I think I'd be skeptical too if Brad Pitt called my sleepy obscure film store looking for the complete works of a relatively obscure director.  Thats really funny... good to know that they are open to such obscure and little known films.[/quote] The media just always paints these stars as either work-a-holics or always out on the town.  It's funny for me to imagine Angelina sitting down for all 450 minutes of S&aacute;t&aacute;ntang&oacute; some day.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:09:52 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>Friends of Foreign Flicks</spout:postto><spout:postdate>1/21/2009 2:09:52 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="seely"] Heh--I think I'd be skeptical too if Brad Pitt called my sleepy obscure film store looking for the complete works of a relatively obscure director.  Thats really funny... good to know that they are open to such obscure and little known films.[/quote] The media just always paints these stars as either work-a-holics or always out on the town.  It's funny for me to imagine Angelina sitting down for all 450 minutes of S&amp;aacute;t&amp;aacute;ntang&amp;oacute; some day.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: BIG RIVER MAN. Sundance 2009 Preview w/Director John Maringouin</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2009/1/13/39464.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s91087.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/19702/default.aspx'>Karina</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/default.aspx'>Karina on SpoutBlog</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/13/2009 2:02:46 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 
John Maringouin’s first documentary feature, Running Stumbled, was praised by Michael Tully as “a startling achievement” and “one of the stronger anti-drug pieces of cinema that has ever been made”; when it screened at the CineVegas Film Festival in 2006, Variety’s Robert Koehler favorably compared Stumbled to Tarnation. Now Maringouin is back with a second non-fiction feature, Big River Man, which premieres on Friday in the World Documentary competition at Sundance. Answering the 4 Questions We Ask Everyone, Maringouin talked about Bela Tarr, shooting straight to hard drive in the Amazon jungle, and being the beneficiary of Olivia Newton-John.

Tell us about your movie: who did you work with, what did you shoot on, why did you make it? Give us the reductive, 25-word or less, “It’s like [pop culture reference a] meets [pop culture reference b]!” pitch, then explain what the quick and dirty sell leaves out.
Big River Man was almost entirely shot using the HVX-200.  We were the first production to use straight to hardrive camera in the Amazon jungle. The film had a tiny crew.  Post-production was incredibly laborious (over 200 hours of footage).
[Co-director Molly Lynch] discovered Martin [Strel, the Slovenian marathon swimmer] on TV after he swam the Mississippi.  After actually meeting him and getting to know his larger-than-life persona, the inspiration to make a film really clicked into high gear.
If you funded your film through a “day job” or through working on projects that were not your own, tell us about that. If not, tell us a story from your past work life, before you became a professional filmmaker.
After months of struggle and with time running out before the historic swim on the Amazon we were blessed with some real angels who came through with the financing.  My friend and publicist Mickey Cottrell connected us to Maria Florio who connected us to Olivia Newton-John.  All of a sudden we were on a boat going down the river.
Have you been to Sundance before? If so, tell us your best moment (or worst, which ever is funnier). If you haven’t, what are you most (or least) looking forward to based on your impressions of the festival?
This is our first film at Sundance but we have a few on the film who have either been there before or have worked there for several years so our expectations have been fettered by their experiences.  I’m always wary of unchecked enthusiasm (ie: hype).
Let’s get hypothetical: You’re on death row. The night of your execution, you’re allowed to watch any two films of your choice. What would you pick for your last-night-on-Earth double feature?
Bela Tarr’s Satantango and John Carpenter’s They Live. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:02:46 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Karina</spout:postby><spout:postto>Karina on SpoutBlog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>1/13/2009 2:02:46 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>
John Maringouin’s first documentary feature, Running Stumbled, was praised by Michael Tully as “a startling achievement” and “one of the stronger anti-drug pieces of cinema that has ever been made”; when it screened at the CineVegas Film Festival in 2006, Variety’s Robert Koehler favorably compared Stumbled to Tarnation. Now Maringouin is back with a second non-fiction feature, Big River Man, which premieres on Friday in the World Documentary competition at Sundance. Answering the 4 Questions We Ask Everyone, Maringouin talked about Bela Tarr, shooting straight to hard drive in the Amazon jungle, and being the beneficiary of Olivia Newton-John.

Tell us about your movie: who did you work with, what did you shoot on, why did you make it? Give us the reductive, 25-word or less, “It’s like [pop culture reference a] meets [pop culture reference b]!” pitch, then explain what the quick and dirty sell leaves out.
Big River Man was almost entirely shot using the HVX-200.  We were the first production to use straight to hardrive camera in the Amazon jungle. The film had a tiny crew.  Post-production was incredibly laborious (over 200 hours of footage).
[Co-director Molly Lynch] discovered Martin [Strel, the Slovenian marathon swimmer] on TV after he swam the Mississippi.  After actually meeting him and getting to know his larger-than-life persona, the inspiration to make a film really clicked into high gear.
If you funded your film through a “day job” or through working on projects that were not your own, tell us about that. If not, tell us a story from your past work life, before you became a professional filmmaker.
After months of struggle and with time running out before the historic swim on the Amazon we were blessed with some real angels who came through with the financing.  My friend and publicist Mickey Cottrell connected us to Maria Florio who connected us to Olivia Newton-John.  All of a sudden we were on a boat going down the river.
Have you been to Sundance before? If so, tell us your best moment (or worst, which ever is funnier). If you haven’t, what are you most (or least) looking forward to based on your impressions of the festival?
This is our first film at Sundance but we have a few on the film who have either been there before or have worked there for several years so our expectations have been fettered by their experiences.  I’m always wary of unchecked enthusiasm (ie: hype).
Let’s get hypothetical: You’re on death row. The night of your execution, you’re allowed to watch any two films of your choice. What would you pick for your last-night-on-Earth double feature?
Bela Tarr’s Satantango and John Carpenter’s They Live. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: BIG RIVER MAN. Sundance 2009 Preview w/Director John Maringouin</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2009/1/13/39463.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s91087.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/9325/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog on spout.com</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/13/2009 2:02:34 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 
John Maringouin’s first documentary feature, Running Stumbled, was praised by Michael Tully as “a startling achievement” and “one of the stronger anti-drug pieces of cinema that has ever been made”; when it screened at the CineVegas Film Festival in 2006, Variety’s Robert Koehler favorably compared Stumbled to Tarnation. Now Maringouin is back with a second non-fiction feature, Big River Man, which premieres on Friday in the World Documentary competition at Sundance. Answering the 4 Questions We Ask Everyone, Maringouin talked about Bela Tarr, shooting straight to hard drive in the Amazon jungle, and being the beneficiary of Olivia Newton-John.

Tell us about your movie: who did you work with, what did you shoot on, why did you make it? Give us the reductive, 25-word or less, “It’s like [pop culture reference a] meets [pop culture reference b]!” pitch, then explain what the quick and dirty sell leaves out.
Big River Man was almost entirely shot using the HVX-200.  We were the first production to use straight to hardrive camera in the Amazon jungle. The film had a tiny crew.  Post-production was incredibly laborious (over 200 hours of footage).
[Co-director Molly Lynch] discovered Martin [Strel, the Slovenian marathon swimmer] on TV after he swam the Mississippi.  After actually meeting him and getting to know his larger-than-life persona, the inspiration to make a film really clicked into high gear.
If you funded your film through a “day job” or through working on projects that were not your own, tell us about that. If not, tell us a story from your past work life, before you became a professional filmmaker.
After months of struggle and with time running out before the historic swim on the Amazon we were blessed with some real angels who came through with the financing.  My friend and publicist Mickey Cottrell connected us to Maria Florio who connected us to Olivia Newton-John.  All of a sudden we were on a boat going down the river.
Have you been to Sundance before? If so, tell us your best moment (or worst, which ever is funnier). If you haven’t, what are you most (or least) looking forward to based on your impressions of the festival?
This is our first film at Sundance but we have a few on the film who have either been there before or have worked there for several years so our expectations have been fettered by their experiences.  I’m always wary of unchecked enthusiasm (ie: hype).
Let’s get hypothetical: You’re on death row. The night of your execution, you’re allowed to watch any two films of your choice. What would you pick for your last-night-on-Earth double feature?
Bela Tarr’s Satantango and John Carpenter’s They Live. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
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John Maringouin’s first documentary feature, Running Stumbled, was praised by Michael Tully as “a startling achievement” and “one of the stronger anti-drug pieces of cinema that has ever been made”; when it screened at the CineVegas Film Festival in 2006, Variety’s Robert Koehler favorably compared Stumbled to Tarnation. Now Maringouin is back with a second non-fiction feature, Big River Man, which premieres on Friday in the World Documentary competition at Sundance. Answering the 4 Questions We Ask Everyone, Maringouin talked about Bela Tarr, shooting straight to hard drive in the Amazon jungle, and being the beneficiary of Olivia Newton-John.

Tell us about your movie: who did you work with, what did you shoot on, why did you make it? Give us the reductive, 25-word or less, “It’s like [pop culture reference a] meets [pop culture reference b]!” pitch, then explain what the quick and dirty sell leaves out.
Big River Man was almost entirely shot using the HVX-200.  We were the first production to use straight to hardrive camera in the Amazon jungle. The film had a tiny crew.  Post-production was incredibly laborious (over 200 hours of footage).
[Co-director Molly Lynch] discovered Martin [Strel, the Slovenian marathon swimmer] on TV after he swam the Mississippi.  After actually meeting him and getting to know his larger-than-life persona, the inspiration to make a film really clicked into high gear.
If you funded your film through a “day job” or through working on projects that were not your own, tell us about that. If not, tell us a story from your past work life, before you became a professional filmmaker.
After months of struggle and with time running out before the historic swim on the Amazon we were blessed with some real angels who came through with the financing.  My friend and publicist Mickey Cottrell connected us to Maria Florio who connected us to Olivia Newton-John.  All of a sudden we were on a boat going down the river.
Have you been to Sundance before? If so, tell us your best moment (or worst, which ever is funnier). If you haven’t, what are you most (or least) looking forward to based on your impressions of the festival?
This is our first film at Sundance but we have a few on the film who have either been there before or have worked there for several years so our expectations have been fettered by their experiences.  I’m always wary of unchecked enthusiasm (ie: hype).
Let’s get hypothetical: You’re on death row. The night of your execution, you’re allowed to watch any two films of your choice. What would you pick for your last-night-on-Earth double feature?
Bela Tarr’s Satantango and John Carpenter’s They Live. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Best Synopses on Spout</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Games/Re_Best_Synopses_on_Spout/598/33282/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s91087.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5353/default.aspx'>Risselada</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Games/598/discussions.aspx'>Movie Games</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 7/30/2008 9:28:45 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="SkyPilot"] If you find a synopsis so enjoyable it's almost a work of art in itself, put it here. I got this idea from Puhnner, who tagged Werckmeister Harmoniak with  THESYNOPSISMUSTBEMEANTASAJOKE. I love this one, it's like a turn of a screw, starting out normal and becoming increasingly bizarre. Bela Tarr follows up on his seven-hour epic Satantango, considered by some critics as one of the finest films of the 1990s, with this elegant, haunting work about the cycles of violence that have dogged Eastern European history. Jancos (Lars Rudolph) is a wide-eyed innocent who works as an occasional postal worker and as a caretaker for Mr. Ezster (Peter Fitz). An outsider and a visionary, he marvels at the miracles of creation, from the planets rotating in the heavens to the sundry animals on earth. One day, a circus featuring jars full of medical anomalies and a massive dead whale entombed in a corrugated metal trailer visits Jancos' economically depressed village. Another more sinister attraction is a shadowy figure dubbed "The Prince," whose nihilist rants incite the town's disaffected to riot. Not long afterwards, Mrs. Ezster (Hanna Schygulla) cajoles her estranged husband to join a citizen's action group against the circus, threatening to move back into his house if he doesn't play along. Tension in the town builds until, after one of The Prince's hate-filled speeches, throngs of angry men with blunt instruments ransack and brutalize a men's hospital ward. When the dust clears, lives are irrevocably changed. This film was screened at the 2000 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide [/quote] I've seen this movie, and this synopsis is a pretty good direct description of the actual events of the narrative.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:28:45 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>Movie Games</spout:postto><spout:postdate>7/30/2008 9:28:45 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="SkyPilot"] If you find a synopsis so enjoyable it's almost a work of art in itself, put it here. I got this idea from Puhnner, who tagged Werckmeister Harmoniak with  THESYNOPSISMUSTBEMEANTASAJOKE. I love this one, it's like a turn of a screw, starting out normal and becoming increasingly bizarre. Bela Tarr follows up on his seven-hour epic Satantango, considered by some critics as one of the finest films of the 1990s, with this elegant, haunting work about the cycles of violence that have dogged Eastern European history. Jancos (Lars Rudolph) is a wide-eyed innocent who works as an occasional postal worker and as a caretaker for Mr. Ezster (Peter Fitz). An outsider and a visionary, he marvels at the miracles of creation, from the planets rotating in the heavens to the sundry animals on earth. One day, a circus featuring jars full of medical anomalies and a massive dead whale entombed in a corrugated metal trailer visits Jancos' economically depressed village. Another more sinister attraction is a shadowy figure dubbed "The Prince," whose nihilist rants incite the town's disaffected to riot. Not long afterwards, Mrs. Ezster (Hanna Schygulla) cajoles her estranged husband to join a citizen's action group against the circus, threatening to move back into his house if he doesn't play along. Tension in the town builds until, after one of The Prince's hate-filled speeches, throngs of angry men with blunt instruments ransack and brutalize a men's hospital ward. When the dust clears, lives are irrevocably changed. This film was screened at the 2000 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide [/quote] I've seen this movie, and this synopsis is a pretty good direct description of the actual events of the narrative.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Best Synopses on Spout</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Games/Re_Best_Synopses_on_Spout/598/33237/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s91087.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/121669/default.aspx'>leeroy711</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 7/29/2008 2:30:09 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="SkyPilot"] If you find a synopsis so enjoyable it's almost a work of art in itself, put it here. I got this idea from Puhnner, who tagged Werckmeister Harmoniak with  THESYNOPSISMUSTBEMEANTASAJOKE. I love this one, it's like a turn of a screw, starting out normal and becoming increasingly bizarre. Bela Tarr follows up on his seven-hour epic Satantango, considered by some critics as one of the finest films of the 1990s, with this elegant, haunting work about the cycles of violence that have dogged Eastern European history. Jancos (Lars Rudolph) is a wide-eyed innocent who works as an occasional postal worker and as a caretaker for Mr. Ezster (Peter Fitz). An outsider and a visionary, he marvels at the miracles of creation, from the planets rotating in the heavens to the sundry animals on earth. One day, a circus featuring jars full of medical anomalies and a massive dead whale entombed in a corrugated metal trailer visits Jancos' economically depressed village. Another more sinister attraction is a shadowy figure dubbed "The Prince," whose nihilist rants incite the town's disaffected to riot. Not long afterwards, Mrs. Ezster (Hanna Schygulla) cajoles her estranged husband to join a citizen's action group against the circus, threatening to move back into his house if he doesn't play along. Tension in the town builds until, after one of The Prince's hate-filled speeches, throngs of angry men with blunt instruments ransack and brutalize a men's hospital ward. When the dust clears, lives are irrevocably changed. This film was screened at the 2000 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide [/quote] It's like someone made a movie about my life.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:30:09 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>leeroy711</spout:postby><spout:postto>Movie Games</spout:postto><spout:postdate>7/29/2008 2:30:09 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="SkyPilot"] If you find a synopsis so enjoyable it's almost a work of art in itself, put it here. I got this idea from Puhnner, who tagged Werckmeister Harmoniak with  THESYNOPSISMUSTBEMEANTASAJOKE. I love this one, it's like a turn of a screw, starting out normal and becoming increasingly bizarre. Bela Tarr follows up on his seven-hour epic Satantango, considered by some critics as one of the finest films of the 1990s, with this elegant, haunting work about the cycles of violence that have dogged Eastern European history. Jancos (Lars Rudolph) is a wide-eyed innocent who works as an occasional postal worker and as a caretaker for Mr. Ezster (Peter Fitz). An outsider and a visionary, he marvels at the miracles of creation, from the planets rotating in the heavens to the sundry animals on earth. One day, a circus featuring jars full of medical anomalies and a massive dead whale entombed in a corrugated metal trailer visits Jancos' economically depressed village. Another more sinister attraction is a shadowy figure dubbed "The Prince," whose nihilist rants incite the town's disaffected to riot. Not long afterwards, Mrs. Ezster (Hanna Schygulla) cajoles her estranged husband to join a citizen's action group against the circus, threatening to move back into his house if he doesn't play along. Tension in the town builds until, after one of The Prince's hate-filled speeches, throngs of angry men with blunt instruments ransack and brutalize a men's hospital ward. When the dust clears, lives are irrevocably changed. This film was screened at the 2000 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide [/quote] It's like someone made a movie about my life.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Best Synopses on Spout</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Games/Best_Synopses_on_Spout/598/33231/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s91087.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/2470/default.aspx'>SkyPilot</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Games/598/discussions.aspx'>Movie Games</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 7/29/2008 1:58:07 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> If you find a synopsis so enjoyable it's almost a work of art in itself, put it here. I got this idea from Puhnner, who tagged Werckmeister Harmoniak with  THESYNOPSISMUSTBEMEANTASAJOKE. I love this one, it's like a turn of a screw, starting out normal and becoming increasingly bizarre. Bela Tarr follows up on his seven-hour epic Satantango, considered by some critics as one of the finest films of the 1990s, with this elegant, haunting work about the cycles of violence that have dogged Eastern European history. Jancos (Lars Rudolph) is a wide-eyed innocent who works as an occasional postal worker and as a caretaker for Mr. Ezster (Peter Fitz). An outsider and a visionary, he marvels at the miracles of creation, from the planets rotating in the heavens to the sundry animals on earth. One day, a circus featuring jars full of medical anomalies and a massive dead whale entombed in a corrugated metal trailer visits Jancos' economically depressed village. Another more sinister attraction is a shadowy figure dubbed "The Prince," whose nihilist rants incite the town's disaffected to riot. Not long afterwards, Mrs. Ezster (Hanna Schygulla) cajoles her estranged husband to join a citizen's action group against the circus, threatening to move back into his house if he doesn't play along. Tension in the town builds until, after one of The Prince's hate-filled speeches, throngs of angry men with blunt instruments ransack and brutalize a men's hospital ward. When the dust clears, lives are irrevocably changed. This film was screened at the 2000 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:58:07 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SkyPilot</spout:postby><spout:postto>Movie Games</spout:postto><spout:postdate>7/29/2008 1:58:07 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>If you find a synopsis so enjoyable it's almost a work of art in itself, put it here. I got this idea from Puhnner, who tagged Werckmeister Harmoniak with  THESYNOPSISMUSTBEMEANTASAJOKE. I love this one, it's like a turn of a screw, starting out normal and becoming increasingly bizarre. Bela Tarr follows up on his seven-hour epic Satantango, considered by some critics as one of the finest films of the 1990s, with this elegant, haunting work about the cycles of violence that have dogged Eastern European history. Jancos (Lars Rudolph) is a wide-eyed innocent who works as an occasional postal worker and as a caretaker for Mr. Ezster (Peter Fitz). An outsider and a visionary, he marvels at the miracles of creation, from the planets rotating in the heavens to the sundry animals on earth. One day, a circus featuring jars full of medical anomalies and a massive dead whale entombed in a corrugated metal trailer visits Jancos' economically depressed village. Another more sinister attraction is a shadowy figure dubbed "The Prince," whose nihilist rants incite the town's disaffected to riot. Not long afterwards, Mrs. Ezster (Hanna Schygulla) cajoles her estranged husband to join a citizen's action group against the circus, threatening to move back into his house if he doesn't play along. Tension in the town builds until, after one of The Prince's hate-filled speeches, throngs of angry men with blunt instruments ransack and brutalize a men's hospital ward. When the dust clears, lives are irrevocably changed. This film was screened at the 2000 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Opening Sequence of Sátántangó (1994)</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/lopezdash/archive/2008/7/7/32221.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s91087.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/89318/default.aspx'>lopezdash</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/lopezdash/default.aspx'>The Movie Blog</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 7/7/2008 12:10:43 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> The opening sequence of , S&aacute;t&aacute;ntang&oacute; directed by B&eacute;la Tarr.      <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:10:43 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>lopezdash</spout:postby><spout:postto>The Movie Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>7/7/2008 12:10:43 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>The opening sequence of , S&amp;aacute;t&amp;aacute;ntang&amp;oacute; directed by B&amp;eacute;la Tarr.      </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:poverty</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/poverty/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/poverty/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>poverty</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 1505</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 38</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 70</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:homeless</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/homeless/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/homeless/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>homeless</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 330</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 17</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 31</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:39:36 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>330</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>17</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>31</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:farming</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/farming/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/farming/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>farming</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 684</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 14</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 19</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:03:02 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>684</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>14</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>19</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:collective</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/collective/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/collective/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>collective</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 30</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 2</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 2</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:bum-hobo</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/bum-hobo/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/bum-hobo/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>bum-hobo</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 204</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 1</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 1</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:02:15 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>204</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>1</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>1</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:sliceoflife</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/sliceoflife/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/sliceoflife/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>sliceoflife</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 674</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 1</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 1</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:02:06 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>674</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>1</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>1</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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