Andrey Tarkovsky, the genius of modern Russian cinema—hailed by Ingmar Bergman as "the most important director of our time"—died an exile in Paris in December 1986. In Sculpting in Time, he has left his artistic testament, a remarkable revelation of both his life and work. Since Ivan's...
This 1972 film is especially good for learning space-related vocabulary and is based on the 1961 sci-fi novel of the same name. The movie follows the emotional turmoil of the crew members aboard a space station. The director of the film, Andrei Tarkovsky, is considered one of the most inf...
Stalker is arguably one of the best Russian films to have ever been made. Tarkovsky’s epic science fiction magnum opus takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where nothing is specified. The film is set against the backdrop of a wasteland known as The Zone, which is fiercely protected and...
Andrey Zvyagintsev breaks away from Russian films performing badly, and reminds us of Russia’ incredibly rich film history. Zvyagintsev is by no means a new face circulating the international film festival circuit, and seems to be the sole successor of Russian genius filmmakers like Tarkovsky and ...
And it contains this passage about Tarkovsky’s The Mirror, which expressed [Ippolitov’s] unfulfilled ideal: “The little boy leafing through a book about Leonardo in the autumnal garden is our all. He is the symbol of Russia. He is its principal value—the encounter between past and ...
In a sense, the long, long single shot reminds me of a scene in “Nostalgia,” the 1982 film by Russia’sAndrei Tarkovsky, in which a man obsessively tries to cross and recross a littered and empty pool while holding a candle which he does not want to go out: The point is not the...
Original vintage movie poster for the French release of the award winning classic Soviet science fiction film Solaris - in response to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey - based on Stanislaw Lem's 1961 novel of the same name, directed by the Russian...
Woman with a Movie Camera: My Life as a Russian Filmmaker I didn't want to go into feature lms; working on The Steamroller and the Violin had left me with a taste of boredom. Tarkovsky was only a student then, and I had no idea that I had been working with a great director. .....
Soviet cinema often depicts war from the viewpoint of a young man. Think masterpieces such as Tarkovsky’sIvan’s Childhoodor Klimov’sCome and See. A Russian Youth, deploying the technicolour aesthetic of 40s and 50s Soviet melodramas, joins this fine tradition, providing a unique take on the...