Meeting andrei tarkovsky biography

Any filmmaker who does not love or feel deeply about the films of Andrei Tarkovsky cannot be taken seriously.

Reassesses the work of the influential Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky.

Reassesses the work of the influential Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky.

Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky started to come together when Dmitry randomly met a monk in Redding, California.

Trakovsky looks for meaning in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky by interviewing a wide range of people that knew him in Russia and Europe including his son.

In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky's death, student filmmaker Dmitry Trakovsky sets out in search of his favorite director's legacy.

Andrei Tarkovsky (b.

You are more than welcome to have your doubts about Hitchcock or Kubrick or Godard, but no such doubt is even possible with this Russian master. He had a few flaws (such as his admiration of his father's second-rate poetry), but the raw power of his cinematic imagination was incomparable.

He only made seven films in his short life (he died of cancer at 54), the best of which is The Mirror—and because it is his best film, it is the best film ever made.

The documentary Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky reminds me of something that happens to any serious reader of Jorge Luis Borges's short stories: He/she becomes enchanted by them.

And those who are experienced know of only two ways of dealing with this incredible and restless spell: one, to work hard to break it and regain some sense of self; two, to find its source, its core, its meaning, and with that finding finally come to a r