{ 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...
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...
time4time (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
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Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... than A Serious Friggin' Man? Calling on the ghosts of Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, Douglas Sirk, Andrei Tarkovsky and Fritz Lang to walk the earth, visit certain Gurus...
Dealspwn (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Although Andrei Tarkovsky’s film STALKER was well received by critics, for ignorant people– like me – who are unable to appreciate the finer points of such a long winded atmospheric masterpiece, sitting through this four hour epic was almost unendurable. However, regarding S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl – the FPS title for the PC – it’s [...] Dealspwn...
Baltic Times (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... of U.S. astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts, a jacket of comrade Mao, films by Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovsky, paintings by Robert Rauschenberg and Gerhard Richter, fashion by Paco Rabanne, a headscarf and plates designed by Pablo Picasso, designs by Charles and Ray Eames and Dieter Rams, architecture by Le Corbusier, Richard Buckminster Fuller and Archigram, and vehicles including...
The Sound of Young America (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... including such all-time Podthinker-preferred immortals as Mike Leigh's Naked [ M4A ] (bribery!), Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris [ M4A ] (bribery!) and, best of all, Yasujirō Ozu's Late Spring [ MP3 ] (oh, such bribery!). Enclosing these directly evaluative examinations are, on the top end, speculations about cinematic news Criterion-specific and otherwise, and, on the bottom end,...
Seaside Man (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Last night I was on my own, so I went to the cinema to see Lars Von Trier's latest film Antichrist. It's quite a dark and peculiar work and towards the end a few things happen that are definitely not for the squeamish. I liked it. It was very beautifully filmed and had a dreamy or nightmarish quality about it which reminded me of the films of Andrei Tarkovsky. I confess to feeling slightly...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... a two-hour-long fuck-you from von Trier, from its biblical parallels to its dedication to the late Andrei Tarkovsky. But what I saw wasn’t that. For its first hour, Antichrist unfolds like one, seemingly endless panic attack, made all the more unsettling and human by Charlotte Gainsbourg’s staggering performance. Stricken by the unimaginable guilt that she (or more specifically,...
Talking Pictures (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... a useful distinction. And yet the first hour of von Trier’s willful provocation — dedicated to Andrei Tarkovsky and freely sampling the rapturous imagery of Tarkovsky’s 1976 World War II reverie “The Mirror” — is pretty stunning. It dissects a psyche unraveling and a marriage, shrouded by tragic loss, being torn apart. I suppose from one angle “Antichrist” is the most sadistic...
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
On the BBC website now. Coming soon: Chris Moyles on Andrei Tarkovsky.
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
... aspect ratio. Some of the titles that will be available via VUDU include Fellini's La Strada, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris and Fritz Lang's M. Other titles include Lord of the Flies, Grey Gardens, Au Revoir Les Enfants, as well as titles by Ingmar Bergman, James Ivory and many others. The selection will be available on VUDU's on-demand service immediately. "VUDU is excited to be adding...
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
La Prisonnière, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1968 Twin Peaks, episode 30, David Lynch, 1991 The Trial, Orson Welles, 1962 Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979 Gerry, Gus van Sant, 2003 Satyricon, Federico Fellini, 1969
scanners (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... is named Nic, same as the director of that film, Nicolas Roeg. (The picture itself is dedicated to Andrei Tarkovsky for reasons I do not pretend to understand.) The comparison to Roeg's film is illuminating: Both begin with a prologue in which the child dies; both involve the bereaved parents, in hopes of healing, traveling to a getaway location (Venice, in the former; a cabin in...
Supernova Condensate (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
So it's back to work for me after a blissful three weeks off, with someone wonderful. Amusingly, back to work involved going to the cinema (and it's not often you can say that), for a brief introductory talk to the film, -- part of the Stars on Screen at the here in Nottingham. Hey, outreach is still work, right'The film, Solaris, was directed in 1972 by Andrei Tarkovsky, and is a classic....
