three men walking round a ruin
― Where is the Brilliant Friend's Home? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 March 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
35mm showing of Rublev yesterday in Brooklyn, packed. I'd forgotten how 'experimental' it is narratively, w/ AR as sort of a 'decentralized' protagonist.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 June 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
So jealous of you metropolitan types.
― Spaceport Leuchars (dowd), Monday, 1 June 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
nostalghia for me. The pool and candle scene is such an extraordinary image in my mind, and I made the journey to Bagno Vignoni to try it out for myself!! Its closed off to the public these days, but I think this is the only movie pilgrimage I have ever made! While others, such as Mirror and Stalker, contain some stunning water effects, I think nostalghiaa is the one in which he uses his water obsession to greatest effect.― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Thursday, September 2, 2004 4:15 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark
this person should come back and tell us more about their pilgrimage
― 龜, Sunday, 21 June 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/5IMu1NZ.png
― 龜, Sunday, 21 June 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
If we're just talking about Tarkovsky for a bit, I rewatched Ivan's Childhood a few days ago. Not really peak Tarkovsky, but that scene among the birches. Is that the best filmscene ever that has absolutely nothing to do with the film it's in?
― Frederik B, Sunday, 21 June 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
Nostalghia screening in NY tonight
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 June 2015 22:38 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/10-great-films-inspired-andrei-tarkovsky
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 23 October 2015 19:59 (eight years ago) link
Thanks. Massive LOLs @:
He even commended James Cameron’s The Terminator (1984) saying its “vision of the future and the relation between man and its destiny is pushing the frontier of cinema as an art”. However, remained critical of the film’s “brutality and low acting skills”.
Wonder who could he mean here?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 23 October 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wdzjFe7tL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 23 October 2015 23:34 (eight years ago) link
Saw Mirror for the first time in about ten years, and back then it was on a DVD played in a small screen at home, as oposed to Sunday at the BFI.
Really the right time - I absorbed a lot from it, or certain scenes had more of an impact just because of the particular knowledge I bought to it. Having read Nadeszha Mandelstam's diaries the scene where the woman is looking for her ex-husband's texts felt a lot more charged and gripping than how it was presented - if you didn't know much about the repression of writers in the Soviet Union in the 30s you may think its someone looking for a book lost by someone she still loves. Tarkovsky didn't (probably because his every move was being watched by the censor) elucidate further.
But that approach of not explaining, letting the image speak (and as I said to the friend I went with - it was her first viewing of a Tarkovsky film - he does film grass like its a cathedral) and its symbols multiply is what Tarkovsky does anyway. And it probably helped not to talk through the ennui and mummy and daddy issues, which I might not have had any patience for.
Helps also to read Arseny Tarkovsky's poetry - not that many try but combining image with three powerful readings of his poetry is an experience.
Given all that it was jarring to see all the documentary footage segment of WWII - Mao - Hiroshima, whose sudden insertion just left us with little clue. This is a film that doesn't give you straightforward narrative answers - and there probably aren't any. Looking back though there were numerous dream sequences that 1) did seem to clash with any scripted scenarios and 2) put all of us who try and capture an image - whether in words or photographs - in a difficult position. As in: why bother after this?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 5 November 2015 13:22 (eight years ago) link
Despite all the clashes they actually felt like something normalised. I was concious that certain things weren't following another in what you'd say was a coherent manner but I really don't recall switching off - just about the perfect sunday afternoon screening. Really fascinated by what the script might look like and what the process around the making of this film might have been.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 5 November 2015 13:31 (eight years ago) link
I saw it last week, the person I was with thought it was (quote) "the greatest thing they'd ever seen", I'm a bit more of a sceptic!
― Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 November 2015 13:41 (eight years ago) link
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, June 1, 2015 11:50 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yea this surprised me abt it, just watched
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 22:42 (eight years ago) link
Just watched "Mirror" on the big screen tonight. The first Tarkovsky I've seen (Ok I watched "Solaris" when I was a teen on TV but I didnt watch the whole lot). Its very much an impressionistic picture of his mother. I found it better when I just let the images wash over me. Like we live through troubled times right now but it puts things into perspective when you watch footage of the Spanish Civil War and Maoist China. I suppose there was a puzzle aspect to it too which kept making me trying to decipher what was happening on screen which was frustrating at times though.
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Sunday, 24 July 2016 01:52 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeUvB-KXQZk
― infinity (∞), Thursday, 18 January 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
Solaris, it's not even close. but I'm very excited to see The Sacrifice for the first time at a theater here next month.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 18 January 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link
reading through Sculpting in Time again, and came across a passage (about The Mirror, but also about his creative process) that I thought others might enjoy. Was about to type it all out, but the whole book is (currently) online at: https://monoskop.org/images/d/dd/Tarkovsky_Andrey_Sculpting_in_Time_Reflections_on_the_Cinema.pdf.
https://i.imgur.com/ivrTkCp.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/kleXE6u.jpg
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
ha. was just reading this over lunch, though i might be about 50 pages ahead of you.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
I need to rewatch Mirror having read that Geoff Dyer book.
― mh, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
whoops, sorry, brain fart: I obviously meant Stalker
― mh, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
what do you think of it, circa? like his movies, at times i find myself drifting off and kind of forget what he's even talking about, and then suddenly he'll switch into something tangentially related that is somehow much more gripping and personal, and i'm sucked right back in again.
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
Feel similarly. It’s not something I’m finding myself desperately itching to pick up, but whenever I do, there are always insights amongst the drifting (and occasional repetition) that hit. It’s good. And I’ll probably want to go through his films again after this.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
How do people who rate The Mirror rate Malick’s Tree of Life?
― circa1916, Saturday, 10 March 2018 07:35 (six years ago) link
I rate both tbh
― Simon H., Saturday, 10 March 2018 09:47 (six years ago) link
They are quite different? I like both, but The Mirror is obviously better.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 10 March 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
They’re different, absolutely, but undeniably shared ground there. A lot of things in Tarkovsky’s book align with Malick’s MO. Would be surprised if The Mirror wasn’t an inspiration.I love them both.
― circa1916, Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
hbd
Interviewer: What animal would you wanna be? 😜Andrei Tarkovsky: I have a dog named Dark, bearing a human soul, that no longer respects me pic.twitter.com/L3AUS8ipvS— Eric Allen Hatch (@ericallenhatch) April 9, 2017
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 April 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ttV63eR.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/Q5fIQeu.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/kQRaO6g.png
many dozens more of these at: http://www.graphicine.com/andrei-tarkovskys-polaroids-instant-light
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Sunday, 16 June 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
those are amazing! there is a painting-like quality about polaroids that is unlike any other kind of film
I wonder what kind of camera made those. they don't have the nearly-square image size (or basic resolution) of standard SX-70/SX-680 integral film and they don't appear to have the 8x10 ratio of the larger polaroids.
they look like 20x24 images to me
― Dan S, Sunday, 16 June 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
WHENNNNNN is mirror getting re-released
― flappy bird, Sunday, 16 June 2019 23:14 (four years ago) link
About 3 years ago?https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mirror-Blu-ray-Anatoli-Solonitsyn/dp/B01BFH7QT4/
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 17 June 2019 01:23 (four years ago) link
Re the Polaroids - Polaroid sold a lot of the 635 CL in Russia and the image dimensions and aesthetic seem very similar:https://www.lomography.com/magazine/192280-getting-instant-with-the-polaroid-635-cl
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 17 June 2019 02:01 (four years ago) link
also - hard to see details and may have a sticker on it:https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5a/ce/45/5ace4568c7e28a8e02750ae28ba5633a.jpg
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 17 June 2019 02:08 (four years ago) link
not looking for PAL pal
― flappy bird, Monday, 17 June 2019 04:30 (four years ago) link
Makes no difference unless you have a 20 year old TV - the blu ray is 1080p / 24p which any blu ray player can output as PAL or NTSC or (more likely) send to the TV as 24p for display at 24fps, if it's a recent or higher end TV.I'm not sure if it's zone B tho - in the US that would require a multi region bluray player.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 17 June 2019 05:59 (four years ago) link
I love those polaroids, they come up now and then on twitter its good to see a stack of them.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 June 2019 10:40 (four years ago) link
me too.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Monday, 17 June 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
isn't there a book? it comes up on amazon when searching for the films
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Instant-Tarkovsky-Polaroids-Giovanni-Chiaramonte/dp/0500286140 (£120)
― koogs, Monday, 17 June 2019 10:45 (four years ago) link
(that's from 2006. there are two others, with essays, from 2012 and 2019)
― koogs, Monday, 17 June 2019 10:47 (four years ago) link
That’s a great book. It wasn’t anywhere near £120 when I bought it, must be out of print
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 17 June 2019 11:25 (four years ago) link
The book of interviews is quite good as well. I especially enjoyed the one with Irina Brezna from 1984: she directly calls him out on his archaic treatment of female figures.
― pomenitul, Monday, 17 June 2019 11:34 (four years ago) link
It's the one aspect of his work I've never been able to tune out.
― pomenitul, Monday, 17 June 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
I have that book too. Haven't seen the ones with essays.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 17 June 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
― flappy bird, Monday, 17 June 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
http://www.openculture.com/2010/07/tarkovksy.html?fbclid=IwAR0Q6zqfyO9fW1IHqTtNnOXHV-eoaasZ_CCZ0FfNiee3Mjm0UNh1Pb28E2E
Stalker, Solaris, The Mirror & Andrei Rublev being streamed for free by Mosfilm on youtube.
― calzino, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
https://i.redd.it/qu6hhxwnqxa31.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
shit, I'm getting video not available.
― calzino, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
vpn?
― ogmor, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
that's something i don't have, if it's not a massive derail which is a good one pls?
― calzino, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link