Andrei Tarkovsky: POO

OH DARN:

http://www.openculture.com/2010/07/tarkovksy.html

I want Criterion to release a blu-ray version of Solaris. I know it's not at all necessary, I just want it.

Ned, that's a real treasure trove - thanks for linking.

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.

Better than "nice", sure, but compared to Mirror it does seem a step down from that..

RIP Erland Josephson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr5cYiRPf3E

:(

OH DARN:

http://www.openculture.com/2010/07/tarkovksy.html

― 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 don't think the New York Times should put its obits behind the paywall. I can bypass the paywall regardless, but it's rude.

RIP

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).

why would you register for free

esp if you get the same 20-article/per month limit as you would unregistered

I dunno, if elan can't see em there must be a problem. Before the paywall you had to register to see it all.

Polaroids by A.T.

http://www.gwarlingo.com/2013/the-polaroids-of-andrei-tarkovsky-the-mystery-of-everyday-life/

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.

cool behind the scenes colour footage of Rublev. cool huh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYhuaht1oQ0

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), 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?

instant light has been sitting in my amazon wish list for 10 years

wish I'd bought the hardcover european edition when it was still in print

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kos8P1OHvGw

I need to see Stalker on a big screen before I die, because it is too good for television screenings.

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.

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

So, what is a dinosaur's favourite Tarkovsky film?

Solaurus?

Oh, okay. That kind of works.

Lol I just googled Barney Rublev and this came up.

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Ha, forgot about that, thanks.

Meanwhile here is the answer to dowd's question: Better pay attention to this thread.

Where you would see http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/kenjuggle3/stalker.gif

haha, okay.

finally watched Stalker over the weekend. i feel like this movie spoke some kind-of secret language with my soul. i know it's corny and lame to express your actual thoughts and feelings, and since i can't think of a cynical or jokey way of putting it, i'll just leave it at that.

http://gwarlingo.gwarlingo.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Polaroid-1-Dog.jpg

this film's beauty is a spiritual experience in and of itself. i can see why tarkovsky loved nature so much. i think i caught this movie at the right time in my life. i used to be incredibly spiritual, and eventually turned into one of the bitter, cynical, materialistic archetypes in the movie. i can understand why the Writer attacked the Stalker at the end, i've been doing that for years now, pissed off that i can't believe in anything anymore. oh well, i love this guy's movies, he always manages to say things that hit right at the heart of life for me. that probably makes me a corny fuck, but whatever.

own it man. life is too important to let fear of corn get in the way.

i feel like this movie spoke some kind-of secret language with my soul.

exactly how i felt on first seeing it, more than 15 years ago now (yikes). beautiful movie, could go on and on abt the imagery, philosophy, occlusion, etc, but at the time it ~spoke to me~ in an indescribable, almost embarrassingly profound manner. have since avoided rewatching it out of a desire to preserve the experience intact.

yeah i have been saving a Stalker rewatch for a long time now, waiting for the right conjunction.

on an otherwise ordinary day in high school my friend handed me a dubbed video tape like it was an artifact

since then i have been in the zone

the shallow water flowing over the grasses and weeds

There is a lot of trickling water imagery throughout Tarvosky's movies. I read a quote where he says he likes to portray infinite beauty in small shots, microcosm not macrocosm. I want to see Stalker on the big screen one day, that would be an experience.

35 mm, guys. last may. i may have spoken about it before. it was transcendent!

almost, but I feel this way about The Mirror

Amused to see The Colour of Pomegranates also mentioned on this thread, as I first saw Stalker on a double bill w/ C.O.P. at the Scala Cinema in London. Those were the days. In Europe Tarkovsky's films are not esp well served by the shoddy prints on Artificial Eye's Region 2 DVDs. It needs the BFI etc to fund new restorations of all his films, tho' I'm certain it would be a digital restoration these days, regardless of all the Kodak 35mm that Tarantino is apparently saving from the scrapheap. I certainly saw Andrei Rublev as a restored film maybe 15 years ago, so that at least prob still exists in a decent print, somewhere.

The Mirror is the best film ever, but I don't think it's as 35mm-specific as Stalker. I've seen The Mirror on celluloid, and I've seen The Mirror on a small computer-screen, and it's genius both places.

saw The Sacrifice again in 35mm. I understand the prosaic types finding it "no good," I guess, but not why they are watching Tarkovsky.

I must've just been in really receptive mood when I saw The Sacrifice, because it blew me away. More so than some of his other, more widely regarded work. Suppose a rewatch is in order.

after having seen stalker and solaris in one week, i came to this thread looking for a recommendation on my next selection. i can only conclude that i must enter straight up chronological obsessive mode. can't wait! me and tarkovsky are like *THIS* right now

Andrei Rublev + The Sacrifice + The Mirror still to watch for the first time = jealous.

and Ivan's Childhood.