Any Tarkovsky fans should see Andrei Koncharlovsky's (wrote the screenplay for Rublev) Siberiade. The only other time I've felt five hours slip by so quickly is while watching Bernard's Les Misérables.
― Stereo no aware (Daruton), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i watched this last night, the first time i've managed to watch it all in one sitting and it really is stunning, isn't it?
solaris - this film would be much stronger if the earlier sequences on earth were trimmed by about 30 minutes.
solaris ...has patchy parts, esp. toward the beginning.
i have to disagree with this. i think the first hour of solaris is the best thing about the film and possibly the best thing in all of tarkovsky (all that i've seen so far, that is, i haven't seen the last two yet).
― jed_, Friday, 5 February 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Stalker, on the other hand, is pretty patchy towards the beginning. there's a lot of unnecessary action some of which is confusing or unconvincing. once they get into the zone, of course, it's next level. the scene where the phone rings is one of the greatest film moments ever.
nostalgia or the sacrafice next?
― jed_, Friday, 5 February 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
the sacrifice
― cozen, Friday, 5 February 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw that one movie that he shot outside of russia recently, and I fell asleep in the first 20 mins. I really didn't want to fall asleep too. It just made me.
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 5 February 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
the opening scene of Stalker, where everything in the house vibrates, is similarly great.
― jed_, Friday, 5 February 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
the only thing that was funny was sometimes I would wake up (before I walked out) and some character would say something completely innocuous and the audience would burst out laughing
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 5 February 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
was that the sacrifice or nostalgia? both were made outside russia.
― jed_, Friday, 5 February 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
ok cozen
― jed_, Friday, 5 February 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
been a wee while since I watched the sacrifice
might dig out solaris tonight
― cozen, Friday, 5 February 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
the scene where the phone rings is one of the greatest film moments ever.
that might be my least favorite part of the movie, but i love stalker (including the opening & run-up to the zone). i love 'roadside picnic' more, though.
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Friday, 5 February 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
The Sacrifice is no good!
Film Four showed Mirror at 11am two Thursdays ago. Luckily enough I was ill to stay and watch.
This one was actually more Paradjanov-like, the readings really come off on screen, looks fantastic, the pacing is so awkward but that is because his way with movement is unlike anyone. In the end, you had to wonder as to whether his greatest achievement was to inspire advertising (not an awful as that could imply if I hadn't opened a fresh new set of brackets).
The NFT are running a Paradjanov mini-fest next month.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 5 February 2010 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
what about a Tarkovsky poll?
― Zeno, Friday, 5 February 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
why is is no good, julio?
― jed_, Friday, 5 February 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, it's rubbish but you did ask
― calzone: liberation (cozen), Friday, 5 February 2010 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
booooring
― calzone: liberation (cozen), Friday, 5 February 2010 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
No its not boring in a straightforward manner (wouldn't be watching T if I didn't like boredom in some way), and anyway I don't mind sitting through something dull - some of my favourite bits have been found amongst boring bits.
To take a stab at it: in The Sacrifice I can never completely get behind the pacing of it, which rubs totally against an attempt at a plot...whereas in Mirror it totally feels erm naturally awkward, and there is thankfully almost no plot. A lot more timing to how long to keep the camera and when to cut away to the next image.
The camera work is nice but not as good as the Soviet era stuff. Think those guys were pulling miracles back then.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 5 February 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i know it's juvenalia of a sort, but some moments of ivan's childhood have really stuck with me
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 5 February 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
― jed_, Friday, 5 February 2010 17:00 (5 hours ago)
I think it was nostalgia. Didn't know it was so funny (still don't)
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 5 February 2010 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
never seen nostalgia or the sacrifice (or steamroller...) but stalker, rublev, and mirror are in my top ten movies. used to call rublev my favorite movie, but right now, im givin it to stalker.
― 69, Friday, 5 February 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
OH DARN:
http://www.openculture.com/2010/07/tarkovksy.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I want Criterion to release a blu-ray version of Solaris. I know it's not at all necessary, I just want it.
― turtles all the way down (mh), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Ned, that's a real treasure trove - thanks for linking.
― Bill A, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 10:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Why do people hate The Sacrifice? Saw it recently and thought it was pretty great. Don't really get the dull or poorly paced arguments. This felt rather accessible for Tarkovsky and I fell into it really easily.
Photography is better than just "nice", too.
― circa1916, Monday, 26 July 2010 08:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Better than "nice", sure, but compared to Mirror it does seem a step down from that..
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 26 July 2010 10:02 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP Erland Josephson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr5cYiRPf3E
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
:(
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, July 13, 2010 5:15 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also don't how I missed this but it's great that you can watch the mosfilm transfer of andrei rublev in 1080p w/ english subtitles on youtube, beats the pants off the criterion imo
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think the New York Times should put its obits behind the paywall. I can bypass the paywall regardless, but it's rude.
― elan, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
RIP
― elan, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
I bleeve if you're registered (as I am, for free) you can see the obits (as long as yr article limit isn't up).
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
why would you register for free
― Artful Dodderer (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
esp if you get the same 20-article/per month limit as you would unregistered
― Artful Dodderer (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, if elan can't see em there must be a problem. Before the paywall you had to register to see it all.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
Polaroids by A.T.
http://www.gwarlingo.com/2013/the-polaroids-of-andrei-tarkovsky-the-mystery-of-everyday-life/
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 May 2013 03:35 (ten years ago) link
The only film of his that was available through my local library was Solaris. By chance I checked it out a few days ago, before this thread revival, but I haven't watched it yet.
― Aimless, Monday, 13 May 2013 04:32 (ten years ago) link
cool behind the scenes colour footage of Rublev. cool huh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYhuaht1oQ0
― will.i.an (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Sunday, May 12, 2013 11:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This looks cool as shit, and it's like $17 on amazon. Is the print quality nice?
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
instant light has been sitting in my amazon wish list for 10 years
― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
wish I'd bought the hardcover european edition when it was still in print
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kos8P1OHvGw
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 20 September 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
I need to see Stalker on a big screen before I die, because it is too good for television screenings.
― festival of labour (xelab), Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
True. Saw it on celluloid recently, a completely different film. Went from being my least favorite Tarkovsky - it's just three men in a power plant! - to top three, I think. But I'd still pick The Mirror, easily.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
As Tarkovsky, his wife Larisa Tarkovskaya and actor Anatoli Solonitsyn all died from the very same type of lung cancer, Vladimir Sharun, sound designer in Stalker, is convinced that they were all poisoned when shooting the film near a chemical plant
― xelab, Sunday, 13 July 2014 09:02 (nine years ago) link
So, what is a dinosaur's favourite Tarkovsky film?
― Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Sunday, 13 July 2014 13:38 (nine years ago) link
Solaurus?
― Don't Want To Know If Only You Were Lonely (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 July 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
Oh, okay. That kind of works.
― Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Sunday, 13 July 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
Lol I just googled Barney Rublev and this came up.
rejected JBR screen names - ilXor.comwww.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall...2 Jun 2008 - 50 posts - 16 authorsbarney rublev. ― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 17:38 (5 years ago) Permalink. a clockwork orangutan. ― Roz, Tuesday ...
― xelab, Sunday, 13 July 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
Ha, forgot about that, thanks.
Meanwhile here is the answer to dowd's question: Better pay attention to this thread.
― Don't Want To Know If Only You Were Lonely (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 July 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
Where you would see http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/kenjuggle3/stalker.gif
― Don't Want To Know If Only You Were Lonely (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 July 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link