58 Szindbád

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knives
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Re: 58 Szindbád

#101 Post by knives » Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:22 pm

Thanks.

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John Edmond
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#102 Post by John Edmond » Sat Dec 03, 2011 7:03 pm

Ditto. *goes back to wondering what percentage of the day MichaelB spends looking for newly uploaded Eastern European shorts on youtube*

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#103 Post by John Edmond » Sat Dec 03, 2011 11:00 pm

Having just watched Capriccio can I just double down on my thanks? Manages to be cute in a manner that strengthens the film's sense of being primal. And an object lesson in how to animate the inanimate - I loved the use of musical instruments, plastic bags and lighting.


edit: oooh, notices Huszárik's last short A Piacere is also up on youtube.

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Re: 58 Szindbád

#104 Post by knives » Sat Dec 03, 2011 11:33 pm

It is fairly amazing how through only some cuts he manages to produce a complex relationship (at least for me) of elation and sadness. More of his work really should be available.

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#105 Post by John Edmond » Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:16 am

It's not just you.

And yes, presuming Second Run can't dump a couple of his key shorts on their future release of Csontváry (I know, wishful thinking), I would buy a compilation of Huszarik's shorts in a heartbeat.

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#106 Post by MichaelB » Sun Dec 04, 2011 4:54 am

John Edmond wrote:Ditto. *goes back to wondering what percentage of the day MichaelB spends looking for newly uploaded Eastern European shorts on youtube*
I do very occasional checks for Huszárik's work, and yesterday's five-second search struck lucky.

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#107 Post by John Edmond » Sun Dec 04, 2011 5:45 am

And I highly appreciate those five seconds.

If it helps I spent another five seconds forwarding it on to friends with children. I have received dubious responses; I am heartened.

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#108 Post by MichaelB » Sun Dec 04, 2011 7:16 am

John Edmond wrote:And yes, presuming Second Run can't dump a couple of his key shorts on their future release of Csontváry (I know, wishful thinking), I would buy a compilation of Huszarik's shorts in a heartbeat.
I'm hoping, since the Hungarians have finally got round to releasing their archival restorations on DVD, that they'll be doing their own version of Szindbád based on the same transfer but with Huszárik shorts in support - which is far from wishful thinking, since a lot of the discs not only feature supporting shorts, but quite a few of them came from the Béla Balázs Studió, which produced Elégia and Capriccio.

In most cases, the extras on these DVDs don't have subtitles - but, handily, this doesn't matter with most of Huszárik's output. Of the ones I've seen (virtually all of them bar Amerigo Tot), only Grotesque has any significant spoken content at all, and even that's pretty easy to follow.

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Re: 58 Szindbád

#109 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo » Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:27 pm

The Adventures of Sindbad, translated by George Szirtes.

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#110 Post by John Edmond » Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:56 pm

Just picked that edition up. Even thought I've only spotted one anecdote from the film thus far (Monkey and Szindbad's failure to not be tempted by the tempting prostitutes) it's been a remarkable read. Not hard to see the how trompe l'oeil imagery of the film acts as an equivalent to the extended metaphors and misleading descriptions that Krudy uses as segues throughout his writing.
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And since Szindbad has already popped up as a dead 300 year old, a young earnest 100 year old, and a sprig of mistletoe (which regrets not reincarnating as a comb for fear of being used in a dirty woman's hair) it has significantly recast my understanding of the film's framing as being that of Szindbad's dying thoughts).

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Re: 58 Szindbád

#111 Post by MichaelB » Fri Dec 30, 2011 8:04 am

The Hackney Picturehouse is showing Szindbád plus the vast majority of Huszárik's shorts (Game, Grotesque, Elegia, Capriccio, A Piacere) on Wednesday January 4th, complete with an intro from yours truly.

Cinema website here - and tickets are a mere three quid (plus discount rates).

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#112 Post by MichaelB » Tue Jul 24, 2012 4:10 am

Beaver (finally!)

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#113 Post by Calvin » Wed Jun 17, 2020 12:58 pm

Reading the Hungarian Film Archive's 2019 annual report, and it says that "in 2019, 33 feature films and 25 short films were fully restored, including those of Zoltán Huszárik". Needless to say, an upgrade from Second Run would be phenomenal!

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