On what would be his 80th birthday, we take a look back at Andrei Tarkovsky and his profound mark on cinema. “The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and ...
According to the sacraments of global cinema, the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky was a kind of latter-day saint of the big screen. Exiled from his homeland, monastically devoted to his craft, he ...
Over the last century of cinematic sci-fi, movies like Planet of the Apes and The Thing have produced some of the most ...
In 1945, Isaiah Berlin, the Russian-British philosopher, returned from a sojourn in the Soviet Union, whereupon he produced the modestly titled, enormously insightful memorandum, A Note on Literature ...
"Through our sins, evil has assumed human form." Janus Films has debuted a new trailer for a restoration re-release of the acclaimed classic Andrei Rublev, the fourth film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky ...
I received an email asking if I’d post something about the upcoming Film Society of Lincoln Center Andrei Tarkovsky retrospective at the Walter Reade. Sure, I wrote back, laughing as I imagined that a ...
The essay, put together by Kogonada, highlights Tarkovsky’s aim to place the focus on humanity instead of technology. As the video’s narrator points out, Tarkovsky spends little time on the ...
From I'm Thinking of Ending Things to Memento, these mystery movies are as labyrinthine and challenging as possible, ...
"Everything will be... all right." Janus Films + Film at Lincoln Center have revealed a new trailer for the restored re-release of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1975 film Mirror, also known as The Mirror, ...
The highbrow Soviet director's movies seem like a strange fit for the video site best known its cute kitten clips. But the experiment just might work. Mosfilm Solaris starts slowly. The Soviet ...
Andrei Tarkovsky always worked to set himself apart from his home country. During a 1972 conservation with Soviet film critic Leonid Kozlov, Tarkovsky wrote up a quick list of his ten favorite films.