Doom Cinema: Sátántangó (1994)
When the Nobel Committee named László Krasznahorkai this year as the winner in the literature category, they spoke of his apocalyptic rhythm and circling prose. That description fits another figure just as well: the fellow Hungarian Béla Tarr, who, as a director, turned those sentences into long, unbroken visions. Together they built a language of paralysis, one in words and one in light & shadow.
