"Sculpting in Time", Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was a Russian filmmaker and film theorist. His most famous films are Andrei Rublev (1966), a biography based on the life of the medieval Russian painter, the puzzling, poetic and highly personal The Mirror (1975) and the introspective science fiction art dramas Solaris (1972) and Stalker (1979). Due to constant obstructions by the Soviet authorities, who regarded Tarkovsky as an elitist, he shot his last two films in Europe, Nostalgia (1983) and The Sacrifice (1986), in Italy and Sweden, respectively. His films are characterized by beautiful imagery presented in long takes with a slow and contemplative rhythm, accompanied by dialogues that raise questions in philosophical, theological and psychological levels. On Tarkovsky, acclaimed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman wrote: "When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He...