Andrey, what is art?

Maybe we are here to enhance ourselves spiritually Tarkovsky





Filmaker Andrey Tarkovsky has been a constant influence on me since I first encountered his work at the age of 18. I have always personally split his work into two sections - Pre and Post "Solaris" with Solaris as the intersection where things really change. What's clear in the second stage of his work "Mirror," my personal favorite -"Stalker," "Nostalghia" and "The Sacrifice" is a deep spiritualist undertone.



Here is a site devoted to "Stalker" which features interviews with many of the people involved in the film plus numerous Tarkovsky talks about the film.

More Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky's Top 10 Films
(as printed in Sight & Sound, March 1993)

01. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
02. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
03. Nazarin (Luis Buñuel)
04. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
05. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
06. Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi)
07. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
08. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
09. Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
10. Woman of the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)

Tarkovsky's Bright, bright day

Exhibition in London of Andrey Tarkovsky Polaroids. His film "Stalker" is one of my favorite films of all time.






Seems to be a bit of a Tarkovsky revival going on with not just the above show (which also has a catalogue) but two new books - this one just released and this one upcoming. My advise start with his own book Sculpting in Time.