Perhaps Tarkovsky’s most opaque film, Nostalghia is nonetheless one of his most personal.
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.
Kino has delivered a set that admirably preserves the delicate effects of Tarkovsky’s seventh and final film.
Tarkovsky’s transfixing spiritual thriller receives the most revelatory A/V upgrade of the year.
Tarkovsky’s pacing is less moved by narrative detail than thematic and metaphorical suggestion.
For Stiller, apparently, James Thurber’s classic story is occasion to craft what eventually amounts to a totem to his own vanity.
An intimate epic, a tangible hallucination, a visceral symphony, and a beautiful display of brutality.
Perhaps Andrei Tarkovsky’s most opaque film, Nostalghia is also one of his most personal.
Now viewers can bask in the film’s ample visual delights with Criterion’s gorgeous new Blu-ray transfer.
It’s the warping, re-signifying logic of affect and memory that architected this list.
The most creative periods for the movies seem to occur about every 30 years, usually triggered by the advent of some new technology.
Solaris is ironically unconcerned with most of the science pertaining to its interplanetary story.
Silent Souls is a ghost story, with flashbacks literally bringing the dead back to life.
By the end of this majestically powerful film, we don’t just understand the need for art.
Tarr achieves an almost terrifying power but sometimes squanders it by hanging on too long.
Is Soderbergh’s film better than Tarkovsky’s, or the other way around?
The Criterion Collection deserves a gold medal for this release.
Even in this, his first feature, we see that Andrei Tarkovsky is compelled by memories of precious things.
The alternately enchanting, austere, and bewildering mise-en-scène is frequently one of denial and disruption.