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re: Solaris (1972)
Posted on 6/22/10 at 9:18 am to Superior Pariah
Posted on 6/22/10 at 9:18 am to Superior Pariah
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Stalker
Andrei Rublev
The Mirror (probably his hardest to "understand")
The Sacrifice
Solaris (most accessible one)
This, of the ones I have seen. Nostalghia is high on my list to watch next though.
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Posted on 6/22/10 at 9:37 am to Freauxzen
We agree once again Freaux 
Posted on 6/22/10 at 9:38 am to Superior Pariah
found that train scene from Stalker where they go from the real world to The Zone
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it's difficult to fully appreciate outside of the film, but at the time I was watching it, I was absolutely mesmerized.
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it's difficult to fully appreciate outside of the film, but at the time I was watching it, I was absolutely mesmerized.
Posted on 6/22/10 at 9:42 am to Leauxgan
I love this video. It's Tarkovsky talking about art.
I love how he says art is the means to enhance human's goal to enhance spirituality.
For me, I've learned more about faith through his movies than all of the years I went to Catholic school (from K-12)
Tarkovsky on art 1
Tarkovsky on art 2
I love how he says art is the means to enhance human's goal to enhance spirituality.
For me, I've learned more about faith through his movies than all of the years I went to Catholic school (from K-12)
Tarkovsky on art 1
Tarkovsky on art 2
Posted on 6/22/10 at 9:45 am to tigerpurple84
cool, I'll check those out later.
I think I know what you mean about spirituality. There was something Writer said in Stalker, saying that the reason for existing was to find spiritual meaning through art, the transcendent feeling you get with music and poetry for instance, the resonant connection with something ineffable.
The god I choose to worship is art. I have a feeling Tarkovsky may agree with me. So excited to see his other work.
I think I know what you mean about spirituality. There was something Writer said in Stalker, saying that the reason for existing was to find spiritual meaning through art, the transcendent feeling you get with music and poetry for instance, the resonant connection with something ineffable.
The god I choose to worship is art. I have a feeling Tarkovsky may agree with me. So excited to see his other work.
Posted on 6/22/10 at 9:48 am to Leauxgan
There is this area on Nicholson Drive that reminds of The Zone. When you are driving north towards campus there is this field to the right just before Tigerland and it has this lone powerline pole with a lot of vines covering the entirety of it. Everytime I drive by it I think it would be a perfect location to shoot a student film.
This post was edited on 6/22/10 at 9:49 am
Posted on 8/4/10 at 9:28 am to Superior Pariah
watched Ivan's Childhood yesterday
it was solid. there were certain images that were amazing. in fact one of them was so simple, a cross in the battlefield with the sun in the background that slowly came into focus. it was hauntingly resonant. and i don't understand why. I felt like something had come unwound within me during that scene.
otherwise the plot was nothing special, but tarkovsky's penchant for simple imagery and a great performance by the boy that played Ivan sent the movie over the top.
it was solid. there were certain images that were amazing. in fact one of them was so simple, a cross in the battlefield with the sun in the background that slowly came into focus. it was hauntingly resonant. and i don't understand why. I felt like something had come unwound within me during that scene.
otherwise the plot was nothing special, but tarkovsky's penchant for simple imagery and a great performance by the boy that played Ivan sent the movie over the top.
Posted on 8/12/10 at 5:27 pm to Leauxgan
Finished watching Andrei Rublev over two nights. I understand that many feel it's his greatest movie. I can appreciate his epic scope and disjointed narrative (i.e. the movie is not even necessarily about Rublev), but I was a little underwhelmed. Overall I enjoyed the movie's themes (creating harmony through art amidst how terrible life can be). Starting to notice tarkovsky has a thing for horses.
Rewatched Solaris today and it was even better, having really thought about Stalker and its themes over and over again. Those two movie supplement each other very well.
Got The Mirror coming in 2 days.
Rewatched Solaris today and it was even better, having really thought about Stalker and its themes over and over again. Those two movie supplement each other very well.
Got The Mirror coming in 2 days.
Posted on 8/12/10 at 6:00 pm to Leauxgan
The Mirror is really good but it's even more complex than everything else he's done. I just look it as the viewer looking from Tarkovsky's point of view as he reminisces over his childhood. The viewer isn't supposed to understand everything, but you are simply given a glimpse into his soul for 90 minutes. It's obvious the movie was really personal for him. The whole scene involving the doctor is by far my favorite part of the movie. Anatoli Solonitsyn really is a fantastic actor and it's obvious why Tarkovsky used him in most of his films.
Posted on 8/12/10 at 6:19 pm to Superior Pariah
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The viewer isn't supposed to understand everything, but you are simply given a glimpse into his soul for 90 minutes.
interesting. he's done that in several of his movies it seems. that was a primary technique in Andrei Rublev. Some scenes were only tangentially related to the life of the monk. images that somehow seem unrelated to the scene, but have an influence on tone and mood. like the Brueghel paintings that the camera lingers on in Solaris. It invoked a sad, wintry beauty, sort of paralleling the feel of the movie. that's why I feel he is a visual poet. the rhythms and atmosphere of his films are sequenced beautifully and demand great patience. somehow all the images convey great aesthetic value as well as heady existential questions.
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