‘Exploring’ features the filmographies of filmmakers that I’ve largely completed and celebrates them on the week of their birthdays.
Exploring #11: Andrei Tarkovsky
Category / Tarkovsky, Andrei
Nostalghia (1983)
Tarkovsky’s penultimate feature (stunningly shot in rural Italy during a self-imposed exile) might be his most ponderous work, yet it could also be his sharpest take on faith.
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Andrei Rublev (1966)
Tarkovsky’s vignette-style medieval epic is possibly the greatest ideological film about a psychologically-conflicted artist trying to understand the epoch he lives in.
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Mirror, The (1975)
Continue reading →Tarkovsky’s purest cinematic poem pulls you into its complex if nebulous form, in a work that continues to astonish time and time again.
Sacrifice, The (1986)
Continue reading →This is Tarkovsky channeling Bergman through his own unique visuals and esoteric style, and also a fitting end to his astonishing but short-lived career of cinematic gems.
Ivan’s Childhood (1962)
Continue reading →A poetic war film, if there ever was one, about the loss of childhood innocence shot in a dreamy style by the legendary Tarkovsky.
Stalker (1979)
Continue reading →This bold existentialist work from Russian master Tarkovsky compels and frustrates with equal measure.
Solaris (1972)
Continue reading →Tarkovsky’s sci-fi mystery is indescribably profound and no doubt one of his very, very best.
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