Kino’s release highlights the harsh beauty and bitter bombast of Konchalovsky’s outsized action drama.
Andrei Konchalovsky’s film is fascinated with the creation of great art in the midst of socio-political turmoil.
It’s in its depiction of the communist party’s response to a peaceful demonstration that Andrei Konchalovsky’s latest is at its most effective.
Tarkovsky’s magisterial historical epic receives a definitive reissue from Criterion.
It evinces a complex understanding of spirituality and faith that would inform all of Tarkovsky’s subsequent films.
Andrei Konchalovsky’s film is more than an exercise, as pitiless moments accumulate with enraged relentlessness.
Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth is most compelling when advancing its familiar plot through associative editing.
Now viewers can bask in the film’s ample visual delights with Criterion’s gorgeous new Blu-ray transfer.
Parents faced with overexcited children on Christmas Eve now have the perfect way to get them to sleep.
Konchalovsky’s 260-minute totem to the Soviet spirit is prone to poetic abstraction and exudes a magical-realist’s reverence for history.
This is filmmaking of the rarest kind, greatly tugging on our heart and moral and political consciousness.
Tarkovsky negotiates the easing of class struggles through the friendship between artist and worker.
This one is for Tarkovsky fans and anyone wanting to introduce themselves to the works of Russia’s greatest filmmaker.