Two Polaroid's by one of my favorite film-makers Andrei Tarkovsky taken at the Southern Italian villa of another of my favorite film-makers Michelangelo Antonioni. In the bottom picture we see Tarkovsky kicking back with Tonino Guerra, the screenwriter from South of Ravenna who was famous for collaborating with Antonioni on movies like "L'Aventura" and "Blow Up" and collaborated with Tarkovsky on "Nostalghia." Guerra was also featured extensively in the documentary "Tempo di Viaggio (aka Voyage In Time)" about the making of "Nostalghia." Here is a transcript of a conversation between Tarkovsky and Guerra which precedes the filming of "Nostalghia" and sees Tarkovsky talking about "Stalker" and more.
Guerra: Someone told me that you would like to completely change your way of making cinema. Is this true?
Tarkovsky: Yes, only that I still don't know how. It would be nice, let us say, to shoot a film in complete freedom, like amateurs make their films. Reject large financing. Have the possibility to observe nature and people, and film them, without haste. The story would be born autonomously: as the result of these observations, not from oblidged shots, planned in the tiniest detail. Such a film would be difficult to realize in the manner that commercial films are realized. It would have to be shot in absolute freedom, independent from lighting, from actors, from the time employed in filming, etc., etc. And with a reduced gauge camera. I believe that such a method of filming could push me to move much further forward.
Finally here is a picture of Tarkovsky and Antonioni deep in conversation
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