mankind’s venture into the unknown realms of space and time. Whatever your own state of mind, you can watchSolarisfree online. (Watch below and make sure click “cc” at the bottom of the videos to launch the subtitles.) If you don’t feel sure about...
Mirroris also one of Tarkovsky’s most slyly allusive films. There’s a French poster forAndrei Rublevglimpsed on Alexei’s apartment wall. Snowy fields dotted by frolicking schoolchildren recall the composition of Brueghel’s paintingThe Hunters in the Snow, which also figured prominently inSola...
He directed the first five of his seven films – Ivan’s Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror and Stalker – in the Soviet Union, but in 1982 defected to Italy, where he made Nostalgia. His final film, The Sacrifice, was produced in Sweden in 1985. ...
repeatedly returning to themes of memory, dreams, childhood and Christianity. His films, such as Solaris, Mirror, Nostalghia and The Sacrifice make use of long, unedited shots and wide angles in uncompromisingly formalistic statements that are as striking today as they were when they were first ...
(1964-66) and the often-shown "Solaris" (1972). "Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews" brings together a collection of candid and articulate interviews, spanning the length of his career, exploring his aesthetic ideology and his self-exile from his Russian homeland. This volume also discusses the ...