Andrei Tarkovsky was a Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor and film theorist. He directed the first five of his seven films "Ivans Childhood", "Andrei Rublev", "Solaris", "Mirror" and "Stalker" in the Soviet Union, but left for Italy in 1982, where he shot "Nostalghia". His last film, "Sacrifice"[...]
The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky throws new light on one of the greatest -- and most misunderstood -- filmmakers of the past three decades. Johnson and Petrie provide accounts of all Tarkovsky's films, interpreting them within a biographical and historical framework. Part One examines Tarkovsky's life,[...]
A director reveals the original inspirations for his films, their history, his methods of work, and the problems of visual creativity[...]
"If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens." Almost twenty-five years after the death of Andrei Tarkovsky, the mystery of his films remains alive and well. Recent years have witnessed an ever-increasing number of film theorists, critics and philosophers taking up the challenge [...]
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-86) was considered by many to be one of Russia's most influential filmmakers, despite an output of only seven feature films in 20 years. He was revered by such luminaries as Bergman and Kurosawa for his use of long takes, languid pacing, and meditations on spirituality and the[...]
The Sacrifice is Andrei Tarkovsky's final masterpiece. The film was shot in Sweden, during the summer of 1985, while Tarkovsky was in exile; it turned out to be his final testament, urging each individual to take personal responsibility for everything that happens in the world. Day after day, while [...]
Andrei Tarkovsky is the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, and one of the most important directors to have emerged during the 1960s and 70s. Although he made only seven features, each one was a major landmark in cinema, the most well-known of them being the mediaeval epic Andrei Ru[...]
One of the most significant filmmakers of modern times ("Ivan's Childhood," "Andrei Rublev," "Solaris," "The Mirror," and "Stalker"), Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was hugely influenced by the poems of his father, Arsenii (1907-1989). Rendered here for the first time in English, the poems echo throug[...]
Critical study of Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) with a scene-by-scene analysis of all of his films[...]
The films of Andrei Tarkovsky have been revered as ranking on a par with the masterpieces of Russia's novelists and composers. His work, from films such as Ivan's "Childhood", "Andrei Rublev", "Solaris", "Mirror", "Nostalgia and Sacrifice", has had an enormous influence on the style of contemporary [...]