andrei_tarkovsky crOwl hey g...i saw this suggested director in you post @ a_film_you_should_see thanks...we'll definately have to see some of his work when you come home... “Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.” "...it seems to me that the individual today stands at a crossroad, faced with the choice of whether to pursue the new technology and the endless multiplication of material goods, or to seek out a way that will lead to spiritual responsibility, a way that ultimately might mean not only his personal salvation but also the saving of society at large; in other words, turn to God." - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986 i heard an interview with julian schnabel today about the making of "the diving bell and the butterfly." he quoted from tarkovsky's "the sculpting of time," saying, that life contains death but art does not contain death, thus art defies death... Tarkovsky's films are characterised by Christian and metaphysical themes, extremely long takes, and memorable images of exceptional beauty. Recurring motifs in his films are dreams, memory, childhood, running water accompanied by fire, rain indoors, reflections, levitation, and characters re-appearing in the foreground of long panning movements of the camera. Tarkovsky developed a theory of cinema that he called "sculpting in time". By this he meant that the unique characteristic of cinema as a medium was to take our experience of time and alter it. Unedited movie footage transcribes time in real time. By using long takes and few cuts in his films, he aimed to give the viewers a sense of time passing, time lost, and the relationship of one moment in time to another. Filmography • The Killers (1958) - Tarkovsky's first student film at VGIK, the Soviet State Film School. Based on the Ernest Hemingway short story. • There Will be No Leave Today (1959) - Tarkovsky's second student film at VGIK, the Soviet State Film School. • The Steamroller and the Violin (1960) - Tarkovsky's graduation film from VGIK, the Soviet State Film School, cowritten with Andrei Konchalovsky. • My Name is Ivan / Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Winner of Golden Lion for "Best Film" at 1962 Venice Film Festival. Set in the Second World War, this is Tarkovsky's most conventional feature film. • Andrei Rublev (1966) - An epic based on the life of Andrei Rublev, the most famous medieval Russian icon painter. • Solaris (1972) - based on the science fiction novel by Stanis?aw Lem. • Mirror (1975) - A loosely autobiographical reconstruction of key scenes in Tarkovsky's life, the film he'd tried to make earlier but abandoned for Solaris (we can note thematic ties between them). Said by Tarkovsky to be closest to his own vision of cinema. • Stalker (1979) - inspired by the novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. • Voyage in Time (1982) - a documentary made for Italian television while scouting locations for Nostalghia with Italian co-writer (and frequent screenwriter for Michelangelo Antonioni) Tonino Guerra. • Nostalghia (1983) - A Russian scholar retraces the footsteps of an 18th century Russian composer in Italy. An encounter with a local lunatic - a man who believes he can save humanity by carrying a lit candle across an empty swimming pool - crystallizes the poet's melancholic sense of longing for his family, faith, and homeland. • The Sacrifice (1986) - The film is about t 071211 ... ? what a cup of t? 071211 what's it to you? who go blather from