Mar 9, 2025 · Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a …

Jul 18, 2017 · Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself—Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.

Aug 11, 2021 · Similar to other recent restorations by Mosfilm, specifically colour films like Stalker and Come and See, Mirror’s is a striking one. Like those other films colours are a bit muted, with greens, grays, blues, and browns seeming to be dominant—which I guess is how the film is supposed to look—but they’re rendered very well. Blacks are ...

Jul 6, 2021 · A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, this sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history by Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker) is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work of cinema. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of ...

Aug 21, 2008 · Andrei Zvyagintsev first film The Return is said to be in a style reminiscent of Tarkovsky. The Banishment is his second film and based upon a Saroyan novella. Sounds worthwhile, but any thoughts on either film or the director would be appreciated. I'm pretty far behind in my Russian film viewing, and have a pretty substantial kevyip in that ...

Dec 16, 2023 · Stalker is a major film right? Well because Criterion will have been chasing it hard and it was either worth it financially to Kino to play ball or they got outbid on the renewal. Kino put out classics on a monthly basis in pretty much barebones editions, there’s no reason for them to sit on this, they aren’t Criterion.

Mar 9, 2025 · This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable ...

Mar 10, 2025 · In 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London for this international sensation, the Italian filmmaker’s English-language debut. A countercultural masterpiece about the act of seeing and the art of image making, <I>Blow-Up</I> takes the form of a psychological mystery, starring David Hemmings as a fashion photographer who unknowingly ...

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Apr 17, 2008 · • PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by Mark Le Fanu and Kim Newman, Koerber on the restoration, and a 1964 interview with producer and star Nicolas de Gunzburg, as well as a book featuring Dreyer and Christen Jul's original screenplay and Sheridan Le Fanu 1872 story "Carmilla," a source for the film Criterionforum.org user rating averages