I haven’t lived in Budapest since 1982–left as a kid so all I really know comes second hand from friends who atm are utterly devastated.
According to Wiki Tilos Az Á closed in 1995. There is a bar on its placed named after Frank Zappa.
I saw Sátántangó at the Berlin Film Festival and thought it incredible. Even thinking about it makes me nostalgic. The incredible thing is that once you get into its rhythm “time is fleeting and madness takes its place” (to quote from another favorite of mine) and you don’t even realize that you have been sitting through a seven hour film. No one in Berlin left the cinema.
Tarr Béla’s work has such deep humanity.
