Tarkovsky broke with any semblance of traditional narrative to create a cinema of the imagination, a poetic, painterly style he would perfect over his four remaining films. By threading his father Arseni’s poems through a multi-layered remembrance of childhood and a more complicated present,The M...
Nostalghia.comhas one set of answers in the form ofa listTarkovsky once gave film critic Leonid Kozlov. “I remember that wet, grey day in April 1972 very well,” writes Kozlov in aSight and Soundarticle re-posted there. “We were sitting by an open win...
Watching Tarkovsky's films, his "sculptures in time," spectators can find themselves on a journey every bit as arduous as that undertaken by the pilgrims who headed toward the Zone. The son of a poet, the director treated film as a medium in which he could express himself in the first p...
I find the film too engaging and suspenseful to be classified with ‘remote’ high-toned art films. Tarkovsky does not challenge the viewer with alienation effects. The storyline never loses my attention, and a little reading (or a looksee at some of Criterion’s extras) will generate even ...
of filmmakers trying to penetrate the Iron Curtain,” but “the high esteem in which [Tarkovsky] was held by the same film-industry bureaucrats who made his life miserable by cutting his budgets and trying to censor his f...
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Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-86) was considered by many to be one of Russia's most influential filmmakers, despite an output of only seven feature films in 20 years. He was revered by such luminaries as Bergman and Kurosawa for his use of long takes, languid pacing, and meditations on spiritualit...
Andrei Tarkovsky died of lung cancer in Paris. In his 54 year\'s of life time, he only made 7 feature films and 3 short films, but these films made him a master of the generation, which also impacted greatly on numerous filmmakers. Oscar Best Director Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu who dire...
Andrei Tarkovsky on The SacrificeThe original French-language version, A propos du Sacrifice, appeared in Positif, May 1986, p. 3–5. From an interview with Andrei Tarkovsky by Annie Epelboin, in Paris, March 15, 1986. This English translation is taken from the programme booklet The Sacrifice...
he says, a bit like an English actor shrugging off the fact he went to Eton.Even if his upbringing was privileged by Soviet standards, Konchalovsky's achievements are impressive and eclectic. As a young man he wrote the script for Andrei Tarkovsky's masterpiece, Andrei Rublev ("A good ...