Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2014 (26. évfolyam, 1-39. szám)
2014-02-07 / 6. szám
Miklós Jancso Hungarian filmmaker, Dies at 92 Miklós Jancso, a Hungarian filmmaker who used episodes from his nation’s history to create critically praised parables of war and oppression, died. He was 92. His death was announced by the Association of Hungarian Film Artists. Mr. Jancso, whose full name is pronounced MEE-klosh YAWN-cho, directed films for more than 50 years, earning his international reputation early in his career with a handful of films distinct for both style and substance. He became known for his long takes and complex camera movements resulting in beautiful but cool and distant visual effects, which often made scenes of violent or degrading oppression especially chilling. “The Round-Up” (1965), set in a remote Hungarian plain in the 1860s, depicts the cold tyranny of an Austrian regime determined to snuff out the vestiges of a failed peasant revolt. With spare dialogue and a nonlinear narrative, it presents a Kafkaesque picture of authoritarianism on a small scale. Many critics saw it as a commentary on the 1956 Hungarian revolt against the Soviet Union. “Red Psalm,” which earned him an award for best direction at Cannes in 1972. Magyar Filmunio/Film Society of Lincoln Center “This film isn’t just about 1956,” Mr. Jancso said in a 2003 interview for Kinoeye, an online magazine about European film. “The film is about the fact that there are people who want to be free and people who are oppressing them. The oppressors always use the same methods. In the places where there is no freedom — Turkey, Iran, China — it’s a very simple equation.” His film “The Red and the White” (1967) depicts Hungarians fighting on the side of Russian Bolsheviks against the Czarists during the Russian Revolution in 1919. A. H. Weiler, a critic for The New York Times, called the film “stark and memorable proof of the callous bestiality of war and the Allegro barbaro (1979) dir: Miklós JANCSO towering ialent of Miklos Jancso » And in “Red Psalm,” for which Mr. Jancso won the best director award at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, a 19th-century peasant revolt is presented with lush beauty, almost as a sensual ballet. (He did not shy from female nudity in his films.) The film was composed of only 26 shots, a fraction of the number used in an ordinary feature-length film. “To make up the difference, the camera moves and people move back and forth and in large or small circles,” Roger Greenspun of The Times wrote, “and I suppose it is right to say — as everybody says — that a Jancso film is not so much directed as choreographed.”----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Jancso was born to a Hungarian father and a Romanian mother in Vac, north of Budapest, on Sept. 27, 1921. He studied law before entering film school in Budapest. In the 1950s, in Soviet-controlled Hungary, he made newsreels. He later directed documentaries before turning to feature films. For a time he was also a theater director. Mr. Jancso received lifetime achievement awards from the Cannes Film Festival in 1979, the Venice Film Festival in 1990 and the Budapest Film Festival in 1994. . His survivors include his third wife) Zsuzsa Csákány, and four children, The A.P. said. Mr. Jancso once said that moving from nonfiction to fiction films had been “very easy, really.” “All the newsreels we made were fiction anyway,” he added. “They were lies, and I always knew they were lies. But they were done in the manner of making a feature film, as everything had to be staged and directed. It •breaks your heart to make things like that, because they were so untrue.” nytimes.com Moonrise Press and the Scenic Drive Gallery Present LISZT’S DANCE WITH THE DEVIL A documentary film by Ophra Yerushalmi Free Screening of a 60-min. film will take place on Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 3 p.m. at the Scenic Drive Gallery, 125 Scenic Drive, Monrovia, CA 91016, tel. 626-359-3946 This documentary focuses on the inner duel between the virtuoso and the composer, the seduction of glamor and the quest for spirituality that took place throughout Franz Liszt’s life. Featuring interviews and performances with musical and literary luminaries, this is a film filled with revelations about the quintessential romantic artist who is also at the forefront of modernity. Selected for the 2011 celebrations and festivals in Paris, Budapest, Rome, Utrecht, Bologna and New York, Liszt’s Dance with the Devil has since also been screened in Ottawa, Baltimore, Oakland, The Harwood Museum, Taos and Tel- Aviv, Israel. Ophra Yerushalmi is a graduate of the Jerusalem Academy of Music, later a scholarship student of Claudio Arrau and composer Stefan Wolpe. She has performed throughout four continents, and premiered works of Israeli composers Paul Ben-Haim, Mordecai Seter and Joseph Tal. Her previous documentary film was dedicated to the presence of Fryderyk Chopin in contemporary culture, Chopin’s Afterlife. New York audiences have heard her at the 92nd Street “Y”, Merkin Hall, The Miller Theatre, Symphony Space, Lincoln Center, and The Music Festival of the Hamptons directed by Lukas Foss, who also participated in Chopin’s Afterlife. Her essay, “Benediction to Liszt in his Solitude” was published by Pendragon Press in Liszt: A Chorus of Voices. In 2013, Ms. Yerushalmi has received “An Artist-in-Residence” fellowship for three months by the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, to develop her new film-project Preludes. RSVP to info@moonrisepress.com or sedobay@altrionet.com www.moonrisepress.comwww.scenicdrivegallery.com The English Page of the Hírlap can serve as a bridge between the non-Hungarian-speaking members of the family and the community. Use it to bring people together! Subscribe to the Hírlap! Advertise your business in the Hírlap! If you have any questions or suggestions, please call (323) 463-6376 * (626) 765-4534 Hungary population decline slows The decrease in the number of deaths outstripped the drop in the number of births in the first eleven months last year, slowing the decline in Hungary’s population, the Central Statistical Office said on Friday. The number of births was lower between January-May and in August last year than in the corresponding periods of 2012 but in the remaining periods it was higher than a year earlier. Until end-November 81,241 children were born in Hungary, 2 percent less than the in the same period of 2012. There were 2.6 percent less deaths in the first eleven months, KSH said. The number of marriages was up 1.9 percent annually. Obama thanks Hungary for help in global nuclear security US President Barack Obama has sent a letter to Hungarian President Janos Ader expressing appreciation over Hungary’s steps towards enhancing global nuclear security, the Presidential Office. In the letter, sent to Ader by the US embassy’s Charge d’Affaires, Obama expresses appreciation for Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi’s successful leadership of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s International Conference on Nuclear Safety, which “elevated its contributions to global nuclear security”. Obama called Hungary’s ratification of two legal instruments, namely the Amended Convention of the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Facilities, and the International Convention on the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, important steps, the KEH said. The US President also congratulated Hungary on successfully removing all highly enriched uranium from Hungary back to Russia, the office said. “We must also continue to work together to ensure that the most dangerous nuclear materials are eliminated or secured,” Obama said. 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