Set in a dystopian future, this 1970s masterpiece challenges reality by presenting a simple idea: a room where wishes can be ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...