1001 Other Albums<h2>Víg Mihály – Filmzenék: Tarr Béla filmjeihez (2001, Hungary)</h2><p>As randomly chosen by survey<sup>[</sup><sup>1</sup><sup>]</sup> on Mastodon, our next spotlight is on number 1036 on <a href="https://1001otheralbums.com/the-list/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The List</a>, submitted by KateOfMind.</p><p>I don’t know about you, but this time of year is excellent for catching up on movies I had bookmarked for later viewing, especially when I have a few extra days off and just want to potate on the couch and ignore absolutely everything/one. And so, it’s rather fitting that this album came up next, as it’s a compilation of beautiful film scores by Hungarian composer Víg Mihály,<sup>[</sup><sup>2</sup><sup>]</sup> specifically scores for a handful of movies by Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr<sup>[</sup><sup>3</sup><sup>]</sup>: <em>Őszi Almanach</em> (1984; “Almanac of Fall”), <em>Kárhozat</em> (1988; “Damnation”), <em>Sátántangó</em> (1994; “Satan’s Tango”), and <em>Werckmeister Harmóniák</em> (2000; “Werckmeister Harmonies”). </p><p>I’d love to say that these movies were already on my to-watch list, but this is actually the first I’ve ever heard of Tarr – I learn something new from this project all the time! All of the movies sound fantastic (score- and plot-wise) and look well-worth finding. I’m thinking <em>Werckmeister Harmóniák</em> might be a good start, simply because the cover for the <a href="https://www.criterion.com/films/33388-werckmeister-harmonies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Criterion Collection edition</a> matches the main part of the album cover here, but I particularly have my eye on <em><a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/satantango/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sátántangó</a></em>, given that it’s from 1994 (i.e., my sweet spot for music), it has an excellent title, it’s over 7 hours long, <em>and</em> it stars Mihály! If anyone has any suggestions on where to begin with Tarr, either one of the four movies or otherwise, please do let us know in the comments. Otherwise, happy listening.</p><ul><li><a href="https://album.link/ca/i/1678977329" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Songlink: Víg Mihály – <em>Filmzenék: Tarr Béla Filmjeihez</em></a></li><li><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/708228-V%C3%ADg-Mih%C3%A1ly-Filmzen%C3%A9k-Tarr-B%C3%A9la-Filmjeihez" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Discogs: Víg Mihály – <em>Filmzenék: Tarr Béla Filmjeihez</em></a></li></ul><a class="" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/vigmihalycover.jpg?w=300" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 The cover art is a black and white photo of a man's face (in profile) on the left side looking at some sort of creature's face on the right side, on a black background. (Note: This photo is also used on the cover of the Criterion Collection edition of Werckmeister Harmóniák.) There is also a black-and-white still from each of the four films the songs are from, two at the top and two at the bottom, each with the film name underneath. The artist's name is in white font near the center, with the album name underneath.]</a><ol><li>The survey choices that initially led to this spotlight were “The bats have left the bell tower”, “The victims have been bled”, “Red velvet lines the black box”, and “Bela Lugosi’s dead”, following the earlier survey that had “White on white”/“translucent black capes”/“Back on the rack”/“Bela Lugosi’s dead”. As with the previous survey, the last option was the winning selection (not surprising as the survey was posted on Halloween), and the survey result was translated as picking the album in The List that contained a word in the phrase – in this case, “Bela”. ↩︎</li><li>This is the proper name order in Hungarian, but he is also widely credited as “Mihály Víg”. Here I use the name as presented on the album/Discogs. ↩︎</li><li>As seen on the album cover, the proper name order in Hungarian is “Tarr Béla”, but here I’m sticking with what seems to be most widely used for film credits, etc. ↩︎</li></ol><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/1001otheralbums/" target="_blank">#1001OtherAlbums</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/2000s/" target="_blank">#2000s</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/bela-tarr/" target="_blank">#BélaTarr</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/film-score/" target="_blank">#filmScore</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/hungary/" target="_blank">#Hungary</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/listen-to-this/" target="_blank">#ListenToThis</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/mihaly-vig/" target="_blank">#MihályVíg</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/music/" target="_blank">#music</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/music-discovery/" target="_blank">#musicDiscovery</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/musodon-2/" target="_blank">#Musodon</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/tarr-bela/" target="_blank">#TarrBéla</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/vig-mihaly/" target="_blank">#VígMihály</a></p>