On what would be his 80th birthday, we take a look back at Andrei Tarkovsky and his profound mark on cinema. “The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and ...

I received an email asking if I’d post something about the upcoming Film Society of Lincoln Center Andrei Tarkovsky retrospective at the Walter Reade. Sure, I wrote back, laughing as I imagined that a ...

"Through our sins, evil has assumed human form." Janus Films has debuted a new trailer for a restoration re-release of the acclaimed classic Andrei Rublev, the fourth film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky ...

In 1945, Isaiah Berlin, the Russian-British philosopher, returned from a sojourn in the Soviet Union, whereupon he produced the modestly titled, enormously insightful memorandum, A Note on Literature ...

The essay, put together by Kogonada, highlights Tarkovsky’s aim to place the focus on humanity instead of technology. As the video’s narrator points out, Tarkovsky spends little time on the ...

Tarkovsky’s mysterious epic – a response to the ‘phoniness’ of 2001: A Space Odyssey – draws you into its melancholic dreamworld superbly At university in the early 90s, friends who were studying ...

This documentary offers a rare glimpse of the legendary Soviet filmmaker, Andrei Tarkosvky, at work. Tarkovsky made only seven films in his brief, but brilliant, career; Michal Leszczylowski's ...

The highbrow Soviet director's movies seem like a strange fit for the video site best known its cute kitten clips. But the experiment just might work. Mosfilm Solaris starts slowly. The Soviet ...

Andrei Tarkovsky made only 11 movies in his lifetime—seven features, three student films, and one documentary—yet his influence on cinema is enormous. While most directors played by the rules, he ...