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Miklós Jancsó. Director: The Red and the White. Miklos Jancsó was born in 1921 in Vac, Hungary. His mother Angela Poparada was Romanian and his father Sandor Jancsó Hungarian. Jancsó received a degree in Law from the University of Cluj-Napoca in 1944.
Miklós Jancsó. Director: The Red and the White. Miklos Jancsó was born in 1921 in Vac, Hungary. His mother Angela Poparada was Romanian and his father Sandor Jancsó Hungarian. Jancsó received a degree in Law from the University of Cluj-Napoca in 1944. After fighting in WWII and a brief period as a POW, he chose to join the Film and Theater Academy in Budapest, and graduated with a diploma in...
Web exclusive. Season of Monsters, Miklós Jancsó’s 1987 follow-up to his 1968 student-revolution drama The Confrontation. Open almost any issue of Sight & Sound between the mid 1960s and mid 70s and you’d be left in little doubt that Miklós Jancsó, who died on 31 January at the age of 92, ranked among cinema’s immortals.
Mass murder in bucolic summer: The Red and the White is something like an austerely pornographic pastoral. Midway through, Jancsó introduces a field hospital staffed by a gaggle of pretty wood (or water) nymphs. The Whites march them and a military band into the birch wood for some girl-on-girl waltzing.
Amid Jancsó’s sumptuous pageants, history is reclaimed and engaged against the powerful. Jonathan Rosenbaum called Jancsó a “lost continent” of cinema upon the filmmaker’s death in 2014. These restorations are hopefully a preliminary expedition on this terra incognita. Miklós Jancsó x 6 runs today through Monday, January 17 at ...
Mar 19, 2014 · Obituary. Issue 70 | March 2014. The great Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó has died at the age of 92, leaving behind one of the more indisputably unique bodies of work in cinema history. Over the course of fifty years, Jancsó’s body of work resembles in many ways the sinuous and seamless flux of his signature long-takes.
Jan 31, 2014 · Miklos Jancso was considered among the world's greatest filmmakers in the 1960s and was known for his historical epics. He won the best director award at Cannes in 1972 for 'Red Psalm.'
May 26, 2014 · Long Take Splendor. With his long-take aesthetics Jancsó has touched a nerve with critics, who exhaust themselves in lyrical descriptions of his graceful style. The “roaming”, “roving” camera movement is “stunning”, “convoluted” or “majestic”. Raymond Durgnat even coined the cryptical term “choreo-calligraphy”.
