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The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Andrei Tarkovsky made just seven full-length features in twenty-four years, mostly in the most unimaginably compromised circumstances and with gaps of up to seven years between films, so you can imagine how enthusiastically he must have seized upon the opportunity to make 'Tempo di Viaggio' . Produced for Italian television while he was working on the script for 'Nostalgia' with Tonino...
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{ feuilleton } (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Stalker (1979). Among the documentary films currently being shown at the Sheffield (UK) Doc/Fest is Igor Mayboroda’s Rerberg and Tarkovsky: The Reverse Side Of “Stalker”. Behind the unwieldy title there’s an exploration of the troubled genesis of one of my cult artefacts, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 science fiction film, Stalker, a personal adaptation...
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The blog Film (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In the second of his diaries from the Sheffield DocFest, David Cox reports on a new documentary lifts the lid on the troubled gestation of Tarkovsky's sci-fi masterwork, Stalker To mark its 75th birthday, the BFI asked 75 lofty figures which one film they would most wish future generations to see . Blade Runner came top of the poll, but the runner-up was a surprise to some. Way ahead of the...
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Adapted from Cormac McCarthy's bleak post-apocalyptic novel, The Road concerns a father (Viggo Mortensen) and son struggling to survive after an unspecified catastrophe eradicates civilization. thinks "perhaps only a visionary genius like Andrei Tarkovsky or a heedless schlockmeister like Michael Bay could have handled the book's combination of visceral terror and mystical reflection....
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Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... well as introducing films by others. My own memory was of his speaking prior to the screening of Andrei Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev . That the SDFF devotes even a small part of its programming to experimental film is commendable. Brakhage was also on my mind watching Waterfront Follies . The work is made up of three shots of sunset, from three different points at the Brooklyn,...
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The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... .. Ingmar Bergman Nashville (1975) .. Robert Altman La Grande Illusion (1937) .. Jean Renoir Andrei Rublev (1966) .. Andrei Tarkovsky Days of Heaven (1978) .. Terrence Malick Ikiru (1952) .. Akira Kurosawa The General (1927) .. Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton The Night of the Hunter (1955) .. Charles Laughton The Searchers (1956) .. John Ford 8½ (1963) .. Federico...
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