Famous directors publicly criticizing other filmmakers' works is not uncommon, revealing unique insights into their creative process. Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter - all had strong opinions on popular movies. Directors like ...
It is no wonder he was interested in the life of the great Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev. Here was a character whose own faith and devotion to beauty and his craft in a violent, vulgar world lead to some of the most profound images in Russian history. So it was with Tarkovsky, ...
Were Lolita being made by Andrei Tarkovsky, he could do what he liked. Lyne should be tortured by the censor. But he won't be. Some sober, social significance will be found in the work, as it was in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. One way or another a further chapter is due ...
Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author of many books, including But Beautiful, Out of Sheer Rage, Zona (on Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker), and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism). A fellow of the Roya...