Satantango (1994), the legendary seven-and-a-half-hour film by Hungarian director Béla Tarr, based on a novel by the outstanding writer László Krasznahorkai, the latest Nobel Prize winner, follows a group of villagers in a world slowly falling apart. Often seen as a landmark of “slow cinema,” it pushes time, storytelling, and perception to their limits. With […]
In 1320, King Philip V of France suppressed the "Shepherds," a rural movement that had tried to restart the crusades by massacring communities of Jews and Muslims across France and Aragon. In 1321, he approved the executions and expulsions of those same communities, this time for colluding with lepers to poison wells and "infect people […]
The 2016 Brexit vote, in which a small majority of UK voters said they wanted to leave the European Union, was followed by calls for Frexit, Nexit, and Öxit, as European far-right leaders pledged that their countries would also leave the EU. We will discuss how a party that had never won seats in the […]
