Tag: Andrei Tarkovsky

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  The Sacrifice (1986)

  April 28, 2021

  1980s, Arthouse Cinema, Drama, Existential, Religious, Russian Cinema, Slow Cinema, Swedish Cinema

  The Sacrifice (1986; Offret) was one of Nathan Beard’s answers for ‘What movie would you want to watch when the world ends?’ when we held the VHS Tracking – Live event for Blue Room Theatre a year or so ago. I always had it in mind to watch because of that, alongside my ongoing journey… Read.

• Mirror (1975)

  July 1, 2020

  1970s, Arthouse Cinema, Drama, History, Russian Cinema

  Ten minutes into Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror (1975; Zerkalo or The Mirror), there’s a scene where a doctor (Anatoly Solonitsyn from Stalker) walks away from a conversation with a woman, Maria (Margarita Terekhova) he has met travelling through the countryside. As we see the back of him in the middle distance of a field, a wind… Read.

• Stalker (1979)

  September 26, 2019

  1970s, Arthouse Cinema, Drama, Russian Cinema, Sci Fi

  I finally watched my first Tarkovsky with Stalker (1979; Сталкер). It was on a Friday night when I’m tired from the week and more in the mood for trashier fare rather than a two-and-a-half-hour slow meditation life, but I pushed through. And it was great, as many people have said to me. With a sci-fi… Read.

• Solaris (1972)

  September 9, 2019

  1970s, Arthouse Cinema, Drama, Russian Cinema, Sci Fi

  Some nights in movie-watching, I strive for a double feature or heck, even a triple feature. Other nights, you’ve gotta give that entire evening to a three hour epic arthouse classic and so it was that I finally sat down with Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972). I liked the Soderbergh version (love the Cliff Martinez soundtrack)… Read.