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Blog #3

The Interview

While researching about Andrei Tarkovsky, only a few directors commended him as being the greatest film director. Though Tarkovsky studied directors like Akira Kurosawa, Luis Bunuel, Robert Bresson, Ingmar Bergman and Alain Resnais, he was always mention in particularly by Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa. Ingmar Bergman described Tarkovsky as the greatest director in history. He states that Andrei is the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream. I was able to find an interview with Akira Kurosawa speaking about Andrei Tarkovsky. He mentions in his interview with Cinephilia and Beyone his experience while watching “Solaris” on set with Andrei Tarkovsky. He while visiting the set of Solaris he was fascinated by the props on the set, especially the burnt down rocket. He said that the set of “the satellite base was beautifully made at a huge cost, for it was all made up of thick duralumin. It glittered in its cold metallic silver light, and I found light rays of red, or blue or green delicately winking or waving from electric light bulbs buried in the gauges on the equipment lined up in there. And above on the ceiling of the corridor ran two duralumin rails from which hanged a small wheel of a camera which could move around freely inside the satellite base.” In the interview mention that the amount of money that was put in this movie was overly expensive, but he sees how passionate Andrei is about the film and he respects him for it. Most people state that the film is two long, but Akira mentions in the interview that “these layers of memory of farewell to this earthly nature submerge themselves deep below the bottom of the story after the main character has been sent in a rocket into the satellite station base in the universe, and they almost torture the soul of the viewer like a irresistible nostalgia toward mother earth nature, which resembles homesickness. Without the presence of beautiful nature sequences on earth as a long introduction, you could not make the audience directly conceive the sense of having-no-way-out harbored by the people “jailed” inside the satellite base.”

Finally, his last statement in the interview is “Solaris makes a viewer feel this, and even this single fact shows us that Solaris is no ordinary SF film. It truly somehow provokes pure horror in our soul. And it is under the total grip of the deep insights of Tarkovsky.”

This is my first Russian movie that I enjoyed watching. The dialogue and plot are superb, the acting very realistic. It gives you a perspective that we humans understand so little about what we love, and it makes me feel so little, with so much to think about and learn. It is meant to be slow pace but some scenes, especially in the beginning could have been shorter. Thank you Tarkovsky however did a phonemical job on this movie.  

Work Cited  

Akira Kurosawa on WATCHING 'SOLARIS' with Andrei TARKOVSKY • CINEPHILIA & Beyond. (2020, April  

09). Retrieved April 17, 2021.

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Another great article about the film!

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An Article about the film!

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Blog #2 

I began watching Andrei Rublev. In the film he is a painter who decides to step away from his art. The film showed a glimpse of his life and his religious, vivid paintings. The film took place in a Trama and war era where Andrei witnessed terrifying battles which he later becomes involved in. While involved in battle, Andrei decide to focus on the battles around him and step away from his painting life. He began to seem lost without his art and tries to find ways to avoid it. He realizes that you cant run from your passion, painting is what he loves to do and he slowly began finding the inspiration he needed to paint again. The last scene of the film was special to me. Andrei was holding a little boy after a daraastic battle that took place, you can see that everything was destoried from battle. Their was dead people on the ground, smoke and swords stuck on the neck of the soilders. Andrei was holdig on to that litlle boy who crided the entire time of the scence. Something beautiful happened during that momment, we got to see his beautiful painting that exposed his side of religion. The entire film was in black and whit until his paintings were shown towards the end of the film. 

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The Poet and Artist behind the film! Who is Andey Tarkovsky? A visionary!

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Blog #1

Andrey Tarkovsky was a Russian film maker. He was known as the greatest director of the Soviet cinema. He looked at film as a form of art not entertainment. In his childhood and adult years, he went to school and studied music and art. Growing up in a family full of poets he learned how to be creativity at a young age. Andrey saw film as a poem full of stories and an open-door wave of spirituality. He believed that he could pave a way to his thoughts and feelings through film. He was an inspiration throughout Russian film history.  This is one of his meaningful quotes : “Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.” ― Andrei Tarkovsky. I think that he is the most influential director of all times. He created a different avenue for film makers that kept the film industry wanting more. Films like The Mirror, Solaris and Stalker created unique stories and visuals that left the audience wanting to know who is the director behind the scenes.  “All his films are self-reflexive, and he does not draw attention to the camera for radical Brechtian reasons. He is not trying to subvert bourgeois narrative codes. He is not even assaulting the tenets of Socialist Realism, a doctrine he found every bit as unappealing as Western mass culture aimed at the consumer. What his constant use of tracking shots, slow motion, and never-ending pans - indeed his entire visual rhetoric - seems to emphasize is that he is molding the images. He is a virtuoso, and he wants us to be aware of the fact." - G.C. MacNab. This storyteller with the mind of a poet knew exactly how he wanted to deliver his art to the audience. 

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Three movies by Film director Andrey Tarkovsky’s. The first one is Solaris (1972 film), followed by Stalker (1979 film), and lastly Mirror (1975 film).