Andre Tarkovsky Pocket Guide
Andre Tarkovsky Pocket Guide by Jeremy Mark Robinson, published by Crescent Moon Publishing in June 2013, is a comprehensive introduction to the works of the renowned Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. This edition spans 288 pages and is presented in English. The guide covers various aspects of Tarkovsky’s cinematic output, including his scripts, production processes, and thematic elements, while providing in-depth analyses of his seven feature films, such as Mirror, Andrei Roublyov, Solaris, and The Sacrifice.
Readers will find a detailed exploration of Tarkovsky’s artistic vision, characterized by a blend of magical realism and profound spirituality. The book includes scene-by-scene discussions of notable sequences, alongside illustrations that enhance the understanding of his unique style. With a focus on subjects such as film direction, production, and historical context, this guide serves as a valuable resource for those interested in the intricacies of Tarkovsky’s filmmaking and his contributions to the art of cinema.
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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 offers an all-round introduction to the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky. It explores every aspect of 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 for some famous sequences. 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, filmography and notes. ISBN 9781861714336.
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