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| Jas does Tarkovsky
yeah i got through another one. I know it sounds like I don't, but I do actually really like Tarkovsky generally lol. Like, none of these are worse than a 6. But I think it's probably worth noting that with a director like this whose appeal lies a lot in intangibles, it's much easier to point out the flaws than to exposition about their beauty | | 7 |  | Marc Almond
Orpheus In Exile - The Songs Of Vadim Kozin
7. The Sacrifice
I went into this expecting to quite enjoy it, but it's unfortunately by some margin the most alienating for me when it comes to Tarkovsky's existentialism. This is a film of fleeting moments of brilliance and various instances of that religious incomprehensibility that will forever alienate Tarkovsky's work from me. From reading the booklet that comes with the Curzon Artificial Eye bluray, it sounds like a lot of the ideas which truly could have made this a great film got left in Tarkovsky's journal, he didn't even film them. It's pretty clear as well that his shelved adaptation of Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" made its way into the film's themes, but as Dostoevsky himself felt of his experiment in writing said novel, it seems the idea got away from Tarkovsky also. | | 6 |  | Atrax Morgue
In Search of Death
6. Mirror
I fucking triiiiieeeeed with this movie, I'm so sorry. This movie was sooooo specifically personal to the director and so structurally unconventional that I find almost nothing to pull me into it. The moments where the stand in character for his mother takes centre are fleeting moments of beauty, but are buried by the film's unconventional structure and the esotericism of Tarkovsky's reminiscence. It took me three times to actually get all the way through it and I'm not so sure it felt worth it in the end. | | 5 |  | Windy and Carl
Antarctica (The Bliss Out, Vol. 2)
5. Nostalghia
I personally think this is Tarkovsky's most visually striking film. Despite being a bit of a slog to sit through (admittedly I don't think there's a Tarkovsky film that isn't), I found this film's religious sensibilities a little more palatable and the personal shit a little more easy to connect to as a viewer, especially as it's so easy to trace his expatriation from the soviet union through this film. | | 4 |  | Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Nocturama
4. Ivan's Childhood
A fantastically unconventional war film, especially for its time and especially considering it was made in the soviet union. | | 3 |  | Om
Advaitic Songs
3. Stalker
This was one of my covid movies back in 2020. I watched it back to back with The Seventh Seal, needless to say it was a hell of an afternoon. I'm absolutely fascinated with the idea of filming a hard science fiction film almost entirely in a pastoral setting, with very little in the way of special effects or… yeah really any science fiction at all lol. It has the air of creating stories as a kid with your friends with nothing but your imaginations to create the scene. | | 2 |  | Spiritualized
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
2. Solaris | | 1 |  | Shpongle
Tales of the Inexpressible
1. Andrei Rublev
It's quite a challenge to say what exactly it was that stuck with me so much about Andrei Rublev moreso than any of Tarkovsky's films. Probably sounds kinda weird to put it this way considering its subject matter, but this feels like the only one where my ability to engage with this film emotionally isn't hamstrung by Tarkovsky's religiousity. In any case, it's a fascinating pilgrimage through a brutal period of European history we don't learn much about in the west | |
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12.21.22 | i fully expect to eat shit for this but ah well don't care didn't ask plus we all consume media as our only personality traits | robertsona
12.21.22 | I want to see ANDREI RUBLEV the most. Solaris was good. Stalker doesn’t seem 100% like my kind of thing—Solaris wasn’t either, sure—but I’d still love to see it. Mirror is stunning at times but I didn’t like it as much as Solaris, and I liked Nostalghia even less. But I like Ivan’s Childhood the most, oddly. | YoYoMancuso
12.21.22 | Stalker and Solaris are so fucking good | CugnoBrasso
12.21.22 | I saw Stalker yesterday right after finishing reading Roadside Picnic, and the movie has pretty much nothing to do with the book (unlike Solaris). Good movie, I loved the images and the shots more than anything else. | CalculatingInfinity
12.21.22 | Solaris drained the soul from my body.
Whether that's a good or bad thing I am unsure. | Oceandrowned
12.21.22 | Russian culture is 100% propaganda and must be canceled, wth you are wasting time on some semi-underground pseudo-intellectual toxic sovok culture? Let’s wait until glorious qtgbl+NATO= 4th reich army conquer those orcs and teach them lesson or two about anal sex to make them any relevant again. You better spend your time reading poems and books of a greatest American and Euro hero of all time S Bandera or listen to Drudkh and their virgin wells, than putting dreaded vatniks aboutism in your precious entitled western brain.
/sarcasm mode on | GhandhiLion
12.21.22 | Weird post, even with the /s | Zig
12.21.22 | the mirror is perfection | CugnoBrasso
12.21.22 | Eww cringe | VlacDrac
12.21.22 | Stalker is amazing. | CugnoBrasso
12.21.22 | Yeah I think I liked the movie more than the book. | DadKungFu
12.21.22 | Book's fun, movie's one of the great films of all time. | YoYoMancuso
12.21.22 | i gotta say i couldn't get into Nostalghia. Visually stunning but there was absolutely nothing about the story that captured my attention. Stalker and Solaris move (maybe a bit less) slowly but they have great characters | hel9000
12.21.22 | i admire his movies more than i enjoy them, although Andrei Rublev is completely tainted by that horse getting killed on screen imo, absolutely fuck that | YoYoMancuso
12.21.22 | his book "Sculpting In Time" is a worthwhile window into his creative process and ideology | DadKungFu
12.21.22 | The Mirror is one of the great visual experiences of all time, not my favorite Tark but a beautiful movie nonetheless | GhandhiLion
12.22.22 | "Andrei Rublev is completely tainted by that horse getting killed on screen imo"
Are you vegan? I'm not defending it, but the horse in the film was unwanted and destined for slaughter. If you think that killing an animal for art is unjustified then you should take issue with all films in general as film itself contains the by-products of slaughtered animals. (gelatin) |
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