REVIEW – Mirror (1975)
Seven years on and this brief piece about Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker remains — year in and year out — this blog’s most frequently visited blog. However, despite the existence of an audience for my...
View ArticleREVIEW — Solaris (1972)
The fashion these days is to treat creative collaboration in the way that medieval dynasties treated royal marriage: Take one thing you like, add another thing you like, and what you are supposed to...
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Ivan’s Childhood (1962) – Adolescent Dreamscapes
Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film began life as a respectful adaptation of an autobiographical story about a child’s experiences working as a military scout during World War II. The story had already been...
View ArticleREVIEW – Stalker (1979)
Frequent visitors to this site will know that I value Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker above all other films. The reasons for this are really two-fold: Firstly, I think that Tarkovsky’s films set the bar for...
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Andrei Rublev (1966) – Some We Call Nothing at All
Towards the end of his life, Andrei Tarkovsky decided to set down some of his ideas not only about film in general but also about his own artistic process. The resulting book – Sculpting in Time – is...
View ArticleREVIEW – Nostalgia (1983)
My Tarkovskyian odyssey continues… FilmJuice have my review of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia, the film he made in Italy prior to his self-imposed exile from the Soviet Union. Nostalgia is a film that...
View ArticleREVIEW – The Sacrifice (1986)
Over the past few weeks I have been working my way through the entirety of Andrei Tarkovsky’s back catalogue. While some of those films were new to me and others were old favourites, each new encounter...
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