Tarkovsky

DLaurent

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Someone said to me years ago as I was getting into Tarkovsky, avoid the S's. In other words Stalker, Solyaris and The Sacrafice. I thought that was mad back then as they seemed to be the best ones. Well turns out tastes change and I think the chap may have been right.
 

catalog

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Just watched "mirror" and it's good. Possibly the best 9ne I've seen so far. Wish I had a spliff with it. The chopping and changing is good. And the wfies bun.
 

line b

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I watched a bit of the mirror last night. Just caught it in passing and was sucked in for a moment.

Visually it was amazing, and not the content of whats on the screen, though that was good too, but the quality of the image. It sounds stupid to say but it was like they had some magical camera. I dont really know what it was about it in particular but I dont think Ive ever seen a film look better in that way. Maybe it just struck my mood and Ill watch it again and the effect will be lessened, it was really striking in the moment
 

version

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i've been making my way through tarkovsky over the past year, limited by when one of the cinemas put them on. done four. it's true love. they're portals. i didn't know such things could exist

Bergman said something similar about him:

"My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease. I felt encouraged and stimulated: someone was expressing what I had always wanted to say without knowing how. Tarkovsky is for me the greatest, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream."
 
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