The everyman Stalker is frustrated by an inability to make the writer and professor respect his queer, ancient methods and the sacred path to the would-be grail. Fear of the unknown finally consumes the two worldly men and both shy away from taking the leap of faith that could bring them ...
Tarkovsky developed a theory of cinema that he called "sculpting in time". By this he meant that the unique characteristic of cinema as a medium was to take our experience of time and alter it. Unedited movie footage transcribes time in real time. /Career: /The Killers/杀手/Убийц...
All the while, we see hints of scenes from Tarkovsky movies, as if they might be forming in his head, such as the opening balloon sequence from "Andrei Rublev", and the "Traveling down the pipe" sequence in "Stalker". Moments of meditative serenity are constantly interrupted by warnings ...
Of all the movies out there, Andrei Tarkovsky’s maddeningly oblique masterpiece Stalker (1979) doesn’t seem like a likely choice to be adapted into a video game. Yet it was. Open Culture, openculture.com
(1974) andStalker(1979) provoked ongoing hostility from the Soviet authorities. Like many other artists in the Soviet Union, his career was marked by constant struggles with the authorities to realise his vision. Although this meant he completed only seven features in his 27 years as a director...
In this paper, I will investigate the metaphorical dimension of a still from Andrei Tarkovsky's " Stalker," without considering the overall narrative of the movie. In particular, I will reflect on the still's different levels of multiplicity and their possible significance while looking at the ...
Images from the set ofStalker(Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) “Anyone who wants can look at my films as into a mirror, in which he will see himself. When the conception of a film is given forms that are life-like, and the concentration is on its affective function rather than on the intellect...
So it was with Tarkovsky, whose death by lung cancer (considered by some to have been the result of radiation poisoning by the KGB, and others to be the result of having shot Stalker near a toxic chemical plant) at age 54 marked the end of his cinema, in a way. While a filmmaker ...
Tarkovsky’s film career in the Soviet Union yielded seven features, all considered masterpieces by most, including “Ivan’s Childhood,”“Andrei Rublev,”“Solaris,”“The Mirror,”“Stalker,”“Nostalghia,” and “The Sacrifice.” Tarkovsky died in 1986. Hype Film previously repped Kirill S...
1969 Andrei Rublev(+ co-sc) 1971 Solyaris(Solaris) (+ co-sc) 1975 Zerkalo(The Mirror) (+ co-sc) 1979 Stalker 1983 Nostalghia(Nostalgia) 1986 Offret(The Sacrifice) Publications By TARKOVSKY: books— Andrei Rublev, Paris, 1970. Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema, London, 1986; ...