Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky may be the only man to have worked with both Andrei Tarkovsky (he cowrote Andrei Rublev) and Sylvester Stallone (he would go on to direct the underrated Tango & Cash), and he brings both sensibilities to bear here: Runaway Train isn’t just a high-...
Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky may be the only man to have worked with both Andrei Tarkovsky (he cowrote Andrei Rublev) and Sylvester Stallone (he would go on to direct the underrated Tango & Cash), and he brings both sensibilities to bear here: Runaway Train isn’t just a high-...
much as andrei tarkovsky’s movie camera can make a flowing brook, a bird flying overhead, or a phone ringing in empty house into a knee-buckling act of god. eh ‘a boy and his dog’ (1975) image credit: lqjaf/kobal/shutterstock when you’re living in a scorched-earth hellhole ...
Director:Andrei Tarkovsky A kind of companion piece to The Seventh Seal, Andrei Tarkovsky imagines eight episodes in the life of a medieval monk (Solonitsin) with a gift for painting icons. Similar to Bergman's knight in Seal, Rublev traverses feudal Russia renouncing speech, his art and his...
More Tarkovsky on the Criterion Channel: Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer, Ivan’s Childhood, Mirror, Solaris, The Steamroller and the Violin. Stalker watch now Tokyo Story Year: 1953Runtime: 2h 16mDirector: Yasujiro Ozu Like so many of Ozu’s films, Tokyo Story is both...
Related:Best Andrei Tarkovsky Movies, Ranked 8Loveless (2017) Sony Pictures Releasing Directed by one of the modern greats of Russian cinema, Andrey Zvyaginstev,Lovelesstells the tale of a couple whose son goes missing duringtheir vicious divorce. The couple, Zhenya and Boris, have mentally moved...
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky. Cast: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Tommy Kjellqvist, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Birna Gísladóttir. Overview: Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun. Gen...
Tired of having only Andrei Tarkovsky in your mind after someone mentions Russian cinematography? You also like horror movies, and want to know what are the best horror films that Russian cinema has to offer? Well, look no further, cause you are at the right place! I am going to tell yo...
The good, the bad and the ugly – looking at you, Last Tango in Paris –are all represented by the 101 entries below, a list that show how films’ steamier sides has shaken up the medium – and the world. Sorry Jermaine, but we’re taking cinema’s clothes off. Written by Dave ...
That’s how Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky approached his sci-fi film Solaris (based on Stanislaw Lem’s 1961 novel) as a rebuttal to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Set on a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris, a psychologist (played by Donatas Banionis) is ...