More bad news for American film culture--one of the great independent film distributors, New Yorker Films, is going out of business:

Sátántangó

I'm a few hours into Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr's 450-minute-long masterpiece Sátántangó. It's a fascinating film, but one that is a bit of a feat of endurance to get through, so I'm trying to muster the concentration to do so. I anticipate having quite a bit to say about this film in the near future. Stay tuned.