Andrei Tarkovsky: Pocket Guide A new Pocket Guide to Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986), director of seven feature films, including Mirror, Andrei Roublyov, Solaris and The Sacrifice. www.crmoon.com.
ISBN 9781861714336.
Includes illustrations, bibliography, filmography and notes.
The text for this new edition has been updated and revised.
Finally, in the religious film genre, The Sacrifice and Nostalghia are among the finest in cinema, the equals of the best of Ingmar Bergman, Luis Bunuel, Robert Bresson and Carl-Theodor Dreyer.
If you judge Andrei Roublyov in terms of historical accuracy, epic spectacle, serious themes, or cinematic poetry, it comes out at the top.
No one could deny that Andrei Roublyov is one of the greatest historical films to explore the Middle Ages, up there with The Seventh Seal, El Cid, The Navigator and Pier Paolo Pasolini\'s \'Life\' trilogy.
They don\'t have the monsters, the aliens, the visual effects, the battles, the laser guns, the stunts and action set-pieces of regular science fiction movies.
Tarkovsky happily and methodically rewrote the rules of the sci-fi genre: Stalker and Solaris are definitely not routine genre outings.
Only the greatest sci-fi films can match them: Metropolis, King Kong, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
As science fiction films, Stalker and Solaris have no superiors, and very few peers.
As genre films, Andrei Tarkovsky\'s movies are some of the most accomplished in cinema.
His films are full of magical events, dreams, memory sequences, multiple viewpoints, multiple time zones and bizarre occurrences.
Tarkovsky is a magician, no question, but argues for demystification (even while films celebrate mystery).
He is supremely romantic, an old-fashioned, traditional artist - at home in the company Leonardo da Vinci, Pieter Brueghel, Aleksandr Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoievsky and Byzantine icon painters.
Andrei Tarkovsky is one of the most fascinating of filmmakers.
Fully illustrated.
Tarkovsky\'s films are analyzed in depth, with scene-by-scene discussions for some famous sequences.
It explores every aspect of Tarkovsky\'s output, including scripts, budget, production, shooting, editing, camera, sound, music, acting, themes, symbols, motifs, and spirituality.
This book offers an all-round introduction to the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky.
Andrei Tarkovsky: Pocket Guide A new Pocket Guide to Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986), director of seven feature films, including Mirror, Andrei Roublyov, Solaris and The Sacrifice
