Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr dies aged 70

Hungary's national news agency MTI reported his death citing a statement director Bence Fliegauf made on behalf of the family. "It is with deep sorrow that we announce that film director Bela Tarr passed away early this morning after a long and serious illness" local news site Telex quoted the statement as saying. Bela Tarr was born in the southern Hungarian university town of Pecs in 1955. He started filmmaking as an amateur at the age of 16 with a camera his father gifted to him. Tarr then...