Named by the British Film Institute as one of the fifty greatest movies of all time, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 science fiction masterpiece called Stalker is,…
Had he lived, Andrei Tarkovsky would have celebrated his 86th birthday today. One of the greatest poets of the silver screen and our eternal hero…
The longer I work in cinema, the more convinced I am that this domain of art is not ruled by any laws. I do not…
During the period he stayed in Italy to work on Nostalghia, one of cinema’s godfathers Andrei Tarkovsky held a speech at a special event called…
Charles M, a fantastic YouTube account dedicated to Andrei Tarkovsky related materials, has been uploading some incredible stuff, the English subtitles are also available: an…
Sven Nykvist expressed this view of Tarkovsky’s method: “The Russian director has scenes that run seven, eight or nine minutes, as a rule; and it…
This piece was originally written for the Asahi Shinbun newspaper, and published in the evening edition, on 13 May, 1977. It was reproduced, with the…