Andrei Tarkovsky Pocket Guide
Andrei Tarkovsky Pocket Guide by Jeremy Mark Robinson is a comprehensive exploration of the influential Russian filmmaker, published by Crescent Moon Publishing in 2012. This 2nd edition spans 288 pages and is presented in English. The guide delves into Tarkovsky’s seven feature films, including notable works such as Mirror, Andrei Roublyov, Solaris, and The Sacrifice, examining various aspects of his filmmaking process, including scripts, production, editing, and thematic elements.
Readers will find in-depth analyses of Tarkovsky’s films, featuring scene-by-scene discussions that highlight his unique approach to cinema. The guide also addresses the director’s artistic influences and the spiritual dimensions present in his work. Fully illustrated, this edition includes a bibliography and notes, making it a valuable resource for those interested in film history and criticism, particularly in relation to individual directors and the performing arts.
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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. This book explores every aspect of Andrei Tarkovsky’s output, including scripts, budget, production, shooting, editing, camera, sound, music, acting, themes, symbols, motifs, and spirituality. Tarkovsky’s films are analyzed in depth, with scene-by-scene discussions. Fully illustrated.
Andrei Tarkovsky is one of the most fascinating of filmmakers. 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. Tarkovsky is a magician, no question, but argues for demystification (even while films celebrate mystery). His films are full of magical events, dreams, memory sequences, multiple viewpoints, multiple time zones and bizarre occurrences.
As genre films, Andrei Tarkovsky’s movies are some of the most accomplished in cinema. As science fiction films, Stalker and Solaris have no superiors, and very few peers. Only the greatest sci-fi films can match them: Metropolis, King Kong, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Tarkovsky happily and methodically rewrote the rules of the sci-fi genre: Stalker and Solaris are definitely not routine genre outings. 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.
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. If you judge Andrei Roublyov in terms of historical accuracy, epic spectacle, serious themes, or cinematic poetry, it comes out at the top. 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.
The text for this new edition has been updated and revised.
Includes illustrations, bibliography and notes. ISBN 9781861713957.
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