Thanks to Alex Asp for the tip.
Following Stalker in 2009, the University Press of Potsdam has also edited a transcript (protocol) of Nostalghia in the original Italian version. A Russian and a German translation of the dialogue are added and – cut by cut – a commentary by Norbert P. Franz. The last pages contain film stills and photos of the locations taken 30 years after the production. A PDF version of the book is freely available.The book is also available in print version (Franz, Norbert P. [ed.]: Nostalghia. UdSSR/Italien, 1983. Regie: Andrej Tarkovskij, Protokoll des Films, Übersetzung der Dialoge. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag, 2015. 130 p.).
Carmen Leigh Keates' Tarkovsky/Bergman-inspired debut poetry collection is now available from Whitmore Press. We've read it, and it comes highly recommended. Her poems are perceptive, meditative and subtle, so deftly rendered that no explanation of their "meaning" is offered nor required. Filippo Schillaci has provided us with some great research into the shooting locations of Nostalghia. Check it out prior to planning your next trip to Italy.
There's a remarkably well-programmed Tarkovsky-retrospective taking place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, January 20 to February 9, 2017. Invited lectures are given by Michal Leszczylowski, Robert Bird, Miriam Chiara, Evgeny Tsymbal, Dmitry Salynski and others. See the full programme here (PDF). Here is the festival poster.
First up, is Dr. Carmen L. Keates' wonderful report from Bergman Week 2016. Click the small thumbnail images for larger versions.
Starting on May 20, there will be a nationwide UK showing of Tarkovsky's work. From the rather impressive website, "Screening from pristine new digital prints, the Russian auteur's seven films will be showing at selected cinemas across the UK and Ireland from 20 May. Accompanied by newly commissioned posters, trailers, essays and short films, as well as a series of talks and events taking place around the country, Sculpting Time will examine these classic titles through a contemporary lens, introducing new audiences to these timeless cinematic landmarks." Thanks to Jon Alsop for the heads-up! There is a new, interesting article in Cinephilia & Beyond, A Unique Perspective On The Making Of Stalker — The Testimony Of A Mechanic Toiling Away Under Tarkovsky's Guidance. Many thanks to Tiffany L. and Andreas Brehmer for notifying us! The Bergman Centre on Fårö, Sweden have plans to mark the 30th anniversary of Tarkovsky shooting his last film, The Sacrifice, by screening the film during Bergman Week (27 June to 3 July) outdoors(!) in the very location it was filmed: Närsholmen, the stage-like isthmus on the east coast of Gotland. Thanks to Carmen Leigh Keates for the information!
Curzon/Artificial Eye, UK, are releasing the following Tarkovsky films on Blu Ray disc, Region B/2, this year: Ivan's Childhood (April 11), Andrei Rublev (174 min version, April 25), Mirror (May 9), Solaris (May 23), Stalker (June 13), Nostalgia (June 27), and The Sacrifice (July 11). Thanks to Mark Doyle of Seattle for letting us know!
Our readers may find Terence McSweeney's newly published book, Beyond the Frame: The Films and Film Theory of Andrei Tarkovsky, to be of interest. More details on this academic study of Tarkovsky's films and his theory of film may be found here. Site reader Ricardo Messina kindly pointed us to his comprehensive Guide to Tarkovsky Film Soundtracks. Check out Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris Shot by Shot: A 22-Minute Breakdown of the Director's Filmmaking. Here are 17 scenes from The Revenant shown alongside scenes from Andrei Tarkovsky's films. Plagiarism or homage, we don't know, but cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki continues to impress us.
Shameless plug: The documentary short film Magnetic Reconnection, co-produced and -shot by yours truly is now available on iTunes in most regions, and also DRM-free through Vimeo. Narrated by actor/musician Will Oldham, and original score by Grammy Award winning musician Jim O'Rourke.
A seven-week course dedicated to the exploration of Tarkovsky's filmography is being conducted at the Freud Museum in London, England. This teaching series is spearheaded by Montreal cinephile Mary Wild, in partnership with Cygnnet Publishing. Check out Masterclass with Andrei Tarkovsky: Cinema is a Mosaic Made of Time in the excellent Cinephilia & Beyond.
Here is a recent Film Comment interview with Susan Howe. Highly recommended.
Recently published by the excellent London-based publisher Cygnnet, is a book entitled Costumes for the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky by Nelli Fomina, Tarkovsky's longtime costume designer. We have had the chance to study the book first-hand and are thoroughly impressed! For example, Nelli's photos from the set of Stalker, as well as her reminiscences, provide crucial new insights into the creation of the film, insights not found anywhere else, to the best of our knowledge. A video tour of the book can be found here. The book is bilingual, Russian and English. We consider it a vital addition to the library of any discerning Tarkovsky collector. This first (and perhaps only) edition of the book is published in a limited edition of only 150 copies, so get it while you can. (This is the same publisher who brought you the equally essential book Andrei Tarkovsky: A Photographic Chronicle of The Making of The Sacrifice by Layla Alexander-Garrett). Some photos of Nelli's book, below. Click for larger versions.
An English subtitled version of Kerstin Eriksdotter's 1990 documentary On the scenography of Tarkovski's Sacrifice is now available here. Thanks, Charles! We are excited to inform you about an excellent new publication recently published by Tate. Poetry and Film explores the creative relationship between Arsenii and Andrei Tarkovsky and includes some newly translated poetry. The compilation is by Kitty Hunter Blair, whose previous translations include Andrei Tarkovsky's Sculpting in Time and Time Within Time: The Diaries 1970-1986. We have had the pleasure of reading the book, and it comes highly recommended by us at Nostalghia.com. The book is available through Amazon, and more information may be found in this pamphlet. This photo was taken exactly 30 years ago today, at Filmhuset, Stockholm, during preparations to shoot Offret. Click for larger version. Happy birthday, Andrei! (More on this Swedish Easter tradition, here).
At the New York Institute for the Humanities, following the publication of Geoff Dyer's Zona in March 2012, they screened Stalker and occasionally interrupted it with a panel discussion featuring Dyer himself, Walter Murch, Dana Stevens from Slate and a couple of others. The whole panel section is available here. It's pretty absorbing, and 120 minutes long. Thanks to Richard Sales for the pointer!
An article on costumes and scenery in Solaris (Thanks, Arkady P.!). A report from the set of Stalker. Since we last updated our News column, the following have regrettably passed away: Donatas Banionis (90), Vadim Yusov (84), and Sos Sargsyan (84). Mihai Vacariu has written a book on Tarkovsky, In love with Tarkovsky — A small treatise on living art, which has been published in Romania by the Adenium Publishing House. Russian and English translations are forthcoming. [The above link is no longer working, the archived page is here.] Video artist Jeff Alu has created an hour-long movie influenced by Tarkovsky, One of Tarkovsky's Dreams.
Last but not least, please watch Manuele Cecconello's stunning meditation Eterna melancholia
A brand new print of Nostalghia is currently screening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York City. Only a few days left — act now! (Thanks, Wayne Lovan). The print will eventually make its way to other cities: It's coming to International House Philadelphia in August. It will hit Portland, OR on August 16–17, and apparently Cleveland as well. More details as we get them. (Thanks, Alex M. and Herb S.). The 7th Andrei Tarkovsky International Film Festival is commencing on June 11, in Ivanovo, Russia. Lars-Olof Löthwall, in collaboration with Nostalghia.com, has helped facilitate an exhibition of (and a printed publication containing) Lars-Olof's remarkable photos from the set of The Sacrifice, in high resolution. Here is a photo album by Nikolay Alhazov of Tallinn. During the recent Tarkovsky Days, he organized an expedition into The Zone which included Evgeny Tsymbal, second assistant on Stalker. Thanks, Layla Alexander-Garrett! Some of Layla's own photos can be seen here. Last, but not least, don't forget to support the Tarkovsky: Time Within Time Kickstarter Campaign!
Layla Alexander-Garrett's photo exhibition recently traveled to Moscow (Solzhenitsyn Foundation) and is currently in Basel. The Basel Programmheft is a keeper. Evgeny Borzov's film Andrei Tarkovsky: The Collector of Dreams was screened at the Sao Paulo International Film Festival. See also our February 18, 2012 news update.
A video reportage on the recent London exhibition Mirror and Pomegranate, mentioned in our October 20 update, is found here (Russian).
Schirmer/Mosel Verlag has published an English edition of its monograph on Tarkovsky. UPDATE 2012-11-08: We have obtained a copy of the book and will post some further details shortly.
A Russian-language review of Geoff Dyer's Zona by Mikhail Lemkhin can be found here. The Sacrifice will be screening on the weekend of November 23, 2012 at 5th Ave Cinema in Portland, Oregon. 35mm print. Thanks to Alex M. for the heads-up. From a recent exhibition in St. Petersburg, check out this video clip, In the Footsteps of Tarkovsky. Thanks, Layla! Layla Alexander-Garrett spent some time in New York this summer. Oleg Sulkin met with her, and wrote this article [Google-translated version]. Layla's play Gaspard de la Nuit premiered in NYC on 19 June 2012. Some reviews of her play are found here.
There is an interesting event dedicated to Tarkovsky next month in Basel, Switzerland. The title is Im Spiegel Andrej Tarkwoskij. Dates are 2 November — 2 December. There will be several exhibitions, art-performances, concerts, workshops, and invited guests. Thanks Anastasia Alexandrova and Burkhard Walther for informing us of this event. Check out Reid Rosefelt's classic blog post on working with Tarkovsky on the American release of Nostalghia. There is a new book out by the inimitable Seweryn Kusmierczyk. Nostalghia.com's Jan B. is curently in Warsaw, chatting with Seweryn. More details when he returns. There is an article on the late Chris Marker by Juan Carlos Romero, here. An exhibition is currently underway in London, England dedicated to the close friendship of Andrey Tarkovsky and Sergei Parajanov. More information here. Ben Frost and Daniel Bjarnason has recently been performing a concept work called Solaris together with the Sinfonietta Cracovia. There is some more informationa and a Trailer here. Thanks Dolf M.! The book Tarkovsky by Nathan Dunne has been re-released in paperback format. So, no need to buy used hardcover versions for GBP 100-400 any more. Thanks to Anders M. for letting us know! Tarkovsky Polaroids. Longime site visitor and friend Keith Rose has recently finished his new album, Myasnoye, and has updated his site with a preview track and some interesting (Tarkovsky related) liner notes, here. Check it out! In addition, Keith's CD First Station has now been released through the Essentia Mundi record label. Letter from a frequent German site visitor (includes Italian-language PDF link):
Links related to Tarkovsky 80th anniversary (Russian) — thanks Layla!
Current Camera 18/04/2012 Article in Hebrew, in The Epoch Times, about Tarkovsky. Check out this film, Sacrifices of Tarkovsky, shown on Russian television in commemoration of Tarkovsky's anniversary. The film is in Russian. Thanks to Iulia for the link! Yours truly (Trond) will be in Hollywood at the American Film Institute Fest 2012 representing as co-producer and -cinematographer of the film Magnetic Reconnection (Dir.: Kyle Armstrong, 2012). I hope to meet some of you at the event – please email me at Newsdesk if you want to hook up. The film will have its East Coast premiere in NYC on November 10 at the Imagine Science Films film festival. The film's Trailer can be seen here.
Frequent site contributor Yevgeny Borzov has provided us with the program of the International Andrei Tarkovsky Memorial Days in Ivanovo, Russia: Russian Page 1 | Russian Page 2 | English Page 1 | English Page 2. Today features the Russian premiere of a new Spanish documentary on Tarkovsky (see the program), in which Tonino Guerra is interviewed for his collaboration with Andrei in Nostalghia. Special attention will be given to Tonino's recent passing.
Director PJ Letofsky is currently working on a documentary entitled Tarkovsky: His God, His Devil. During its production, PJ had the chance to interview Tonino. He has made this small excerpt available to us via YouTube: Tonino Guerra on Andrei Tarkovsky. Documentary filmmaker PJ Letofsky is looking for any rare Tarkovsky photos our readers might have, especially from Myasnoye, the Tarkovsky family country home. Please contact Newsdesk if you have something you might be willing to share for the upcoming documentary Tarkovsky: His God, His Devil. PJ hopes to wrap it all up by the end of this year.
This new book, recently released by Atrium, includes the complete script to the original stage play, a fascinating essay by Erland about his work with Tarkovsky on Nostalghia and Offret, as well as a CD of the Swedish Radio (SR) radio theater version, featuring music by Wendy Carlos and Bach.
On April 29, at 4 pm, the Stockholm Cinemateket will be screening Mirror. The screening will be introduced by Professor Astrid Söderbergh Widding and Fil. Dr. Christo Burman. They will also introduce and discuss the newly released (by Atrium) Swedish translation of the Tarkovsky diaries, Martyrologion: Dagböcker 1970-1986. Film historian Jean Douchet on Andrei Tarkovsky. Also see additional links on the right hand side of the same page. Please check out site reader Jukka Eronen's excellent Finnish Andrei Tarkovsky Archives. Speaking of Finland, a decade ago, we received the following email from a site visitor. If anyone knows where we may obtain a copy of this Finnish documentary (also mentioned in our Documentaries section), please do let us know.
Site reader and Tarkovsky scholar John A. Riley has recently completed his PhD in Tarkovsky entitled Shifting Mirrors: An Intertextual Approach To The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky at Birkbeck College, University of London, under the supervision of Professor Ian Christie. John has also written a fascinating article that discusses Tarkovsky's interest in Polaroid photography and the Haiku, arguing that these tie in with Tarkovsky's latent interest in an an aesthetics of brevity. The article is published on Birkbeck College, University of London's online postgrad arts journal, here. Glenn Kenny's review of yesterday's Tarkovsky Interruptus event. Speaking of Geoff Dyer, you may wish to check out his new book, Zona. We hope to bring you a review shortly. A new, more accurate translation of Roadside Picnic will be published May 1, 2012 (Thanks, Tom!). Donatella Baglivo writes on a Facebook event page: "From April 4th to 15th, L'associazione Culturale Ciak Villlage organises retrospective and an exhibition of photographs about the Russian director Andreij Tarkovsky. The opening ceremony will take place in Rome, Tor di Quinto 57/B (beside the shooting range) on April 4th at 6 pm. This exhibition was born thanks to the collaboration of Donatella Baglivo with Andreij Tarkovsky on the set he shot Nostalghia (1983). You are all very welcome to this event and we would like you to come and talk about with some friends. This is a really important event for this new born association and we need you to make this evening exceptional. It will be presented by Luigi Di Majo from la RAI.".
Erland Josephson, husband, father, actor on stage and in film, author, playwright, poet, teacher, director, born 15 June 1923; died 25 February 2012. Z"l. How many of us will remember him, as an actor. Layla Alexander-Garrett tells us that, in Tallinn on April 20 there will be a performance of Erland's play One Night in the Swedish Summer (on the making of The Sacrifice; see our December 21, 2002 news update). The performance will take place at the Russian Theatre, and it will be dedicated to the memory of the great actor. Coverage in The Washington Post Coverage in The New York Times Video: Liv Ullmann on Erland Josephson Obituary in The Guardian
The Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City will be sceening Nostalghia on March 13. The publisher of Layla Alexander-Garrett's photo book, Andrei Tarkovsky: a Photographic Chronicle of the Making of The Sacrifice, has created this site to promote the book. The book can be purchased through this site. There is also a promotional video. We greatly enjoy our copy, and can highly recommend it. It offers fascinating new insights through photos never before published. The book is an assential addition to any Tarkovsky connoisseur's coffee table. (As a sidenote, the many book collectors among our readers will appreciate the fact that the book will eventually go out of print, and, as we've seen in the past, prices on the Used market tend to lean towards the astronomical. Plan accordingly.)
In other DVD and Blu-ray news, here is a Czech-language review of the Russian Mirror on Blu. In Scandinavia, most Tarkovsky titles are published with Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and Finnish subtitles by Another World Entertainment. The site contains a list of all dealers, here (thanks, Lars!). These are all likely RusCiCo transfers, except Offret which is the excellent SFI transfer. Nostalghia is not among these titles. Our colleagues in Brazil inform us that the first issue of cadernos de pesquisa kinoruss: TARKOVSKIANAS is now online. Says Kinoruss Editor Neide Jallageas: "Incidentally, this is the first publication in Portuguese on the subject so specific: the Russian cinema. Plus, dedicated to each issue, a Russian filmmaker. It is a series of electronic dossiers. The first issue is dedicated to Tarkovsky and the second number will be dedicated to Sokurov." Site reader Guido Gräsel noticed that there are 4 missing cards in our Sacrifice Series B and kindly contributed the missing cards. Click below for larger versions. Thanks, Guido!
Some additional information on Layla Alexander-Garrett's photo album, Andrei Tarkovsky: a Photographic Chronicle of the Making of The Sacrifice, can be found here [PDF]. The book can now be ordered through Amazon. Here are some promotional photos provided to us by the publisher [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 ] Our longtime friend and collaborator, Dr. Yevgeny Borzov of Ivanovo, Russia, sent us the following informative note:
The rare Finnish Ivan's Childhood poster shown on the left (click for larger version) was contibuted by film editor Jani Ahlstedt, who says "I got lucky and found the original Finnish poster of Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo). I bought it and now I have photographed it. Finding Tarkovsky's films was big thing in my life, hope that next generations also can enjoy these wonderful films." Indeed. Thanks, Jani! As part of the series Geoff Dyer on Tarkovsky, Cinema, and Life, Mr. Dyer will be introducing a screening of Mirror on March 11 at the NYC's Museum of the Moving Image. Thanks to Wayne Lovan for the heads-up! Site reader Alexander in Russia has kindly provided us with high-quality scans of all the pages of a script of Stalker (he refers to it as "3rd. Edition"). Hand-written annotations by Andrei Tarkovsky can be seen throughout. We asked Alexander how he came into possession of this script, and he told us, "This scenario gave me Olga, the daughter of Larissa, when Andrew was living with her on Mosfilmovskaya street." We post the first 6 pages below. The rest will be posted once possible copyright related issues have been clarified and resolved (if any of our readers have insights pertaining to this situation, please contact us at the Newsdesk). Click the small images for larger versions. Thanks, Alexander — and very special thanks also to Andrew (Tyape) and Olga!
Young Belgian filmmaker Kristof Hoornaert has made a short film called KAIN. Says Kristof, "Andrei Tarkovsky has always been a rich source of inspiration for me: he opened my eyes as a filmmaker. So I thought you might be interested in viewing my film.". Please watch the sublime and thought-provoking KAIN, here. Dmitry Trakovsky [ website ] has commenced a second film project, a feature-length documentary about the Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska currently entitled Arctic Cross. He has made a short trailer called Journey into Orthodox Alaska in order to gather support for the longer feature. Check out the trailer here. Also, visit his Kickstarter profile
Layla Alexander-Garrett's photo book Andrei Tarkovsky: A photo chronicle of making The Sacrifice is coming out in October. The presentation of the book will take place 23 October at the Film Festival Molodost', Kiev, Ukraine. See also our August 31, 2010 news update for a link to an exhibition of some of her photos.
We recently received the following press release from the UNIONgallery in the U.K.: "Two paintings inspired by the Andrei Tarkovsky film The Mirror are to be displayed at Union Gallery in Edinburgh during the month of August. Artist Philip Braham, a long-term admirer of Tarkovsky's work has produced two paintings in his new body of work, entitled Still, that are effectively an homage to the film. Braham has taken stills from the film and re-interpreted them to fit the theme of the exhibition: an examination of the influences that have helped to shape his life as a painter and as a man. Philip Braham is one of Scotland's great contemporary talents, working in the media of both paint and photography, and has a justifiable reputation as a major creative force, producing work that is visually stunning, challenging and demanding of the viewer, which fits well with the work of Tarkovsky. The paintings can be viewed at Union Gallery and online at www.uniongallery.co.uk. For more information, please contact the gallery at info@uniongallery.co.uk". Here is a direct link to Mr. Braham's work. His remarkable Tarkovsky related paintings are Antonine Hill, Oil on Canvas, 122x97cm, and Windyhill Woods, Oil on Canvas, 46x61cm. Dan Marquart, one of our site visitors, has recently started a blog of original drawings and comments inspired by Tarkovsky's films. We think you'll find them very interesting. Dan writes: "This is a non-commercial site. All my drawings can be right clicked and saved to your computer. I just want to share my admiration for Andrei Tarkovsky with other people who are inspired by him".
Gary has just posted his review of the Criterion Blu-ray Solaris. Looks absolutely stunning. Chris Marker's Tarkovsky meditation will be out on DVD in North America on May 24 (amazon link). Dmitry Trakovsky's film will be included on Artificial Eye's Tarkovsky Collection. Congrats, Dmitry! The collection will be available on May 23. Sean Martin's book on Tarkovsky has just been reissued in a much nicer format to the original 2006 edition. Better paper, better binding, and it now has colour photos. It's available in the UK now, and will be available in U.S. and Canada in July (amazon link). The Edward Artemiev soundtrack to Solaris can apparently be accessed here [mp3]. We prefer the uncompressed original CD and vinyl. The documentary Toscan: The French Touch looks interesting. Says the blurb: Daniel Toscan du Plantier produced over 50 films over the course of his career. He started in advertising and became Deputy Director of Gaumont in 1975, at the age of 35. During his ten-year tenure at Gaumont, he produced filmmakers Werner Herzog ("Nosferatu the Vampyre"), Federico Fellini ("The City of Women"), Ingmar Bergman ("Fanny and Alexander") and Andrei Tarkovsky ("Nostalghia"). New upcoming CD from the Tarkovsky Quartet (Francois Couturier, A Lechner, J-M Larche & J-L Ma) appears to be due out July 26, 2011 (amazon link). David Sylvian reciting the poem Life, Life by Arseny Tarkovsky, at the Concert For Japan.
The Details:
Please see the Director's notes [PDF] for more in-depth information on this adaptation. There is a Facebook page for the event. A PDF version of the event poster, with full cast listing, can be viewed here.
Interesting reflections by Danny Leigh over at the Grauniad, see "The powerful resonances of Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker".
Fandor has a new piece, "How to Face a Nuclear Apocalypse: The Sacrifice", by Michael Joshua Rowin.
Geoff Dyer's next book to be on Stalker?
Efforts to open a Tarkovsky Museum in Moscow in 2011 are still ongoing, and ramping up.
There is a Tarkovsky retrospective being held at the Museum of Cinema in Moscow. It runs until April 11.
Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life interactive site is up.
Nice piece by Nicolas Rapold on the occasion of the upcoming Vigo event, "Son of Anarchy, Father of a Critic: A Tribute to Jean Vigo at UCLA". On Sunday at UCLA, the Parajanov-Vartanov Institute will honor Vigo with an award and a rare 35mm screening of his best-known works.
Michal Leszczylowski is not scared. See final paragraph of this USA Today piece.
The BFI just added a Tarkovsky slide to their excellent slide show.
The German DVD release of Nostalghia (from Alamode Filmdistribution) includes Dmitry's Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky documentary as bonus material. Juliette Binoche on The Sacrifice, here. Cate Blanchett on Stalker, here. Roderick Heath on Stalker, here. Filivs Macrocosmi has released an ambient music CD inspired by (and using sampled audio from) Stalker. As should be well-known by now (at least by followers of Criterion on Facebook and Twitter), the Criterion BluRay Edition of Solaris is slated for a May release. We are proud to tell you that the correction to the tint is more or less a direct result of our February 24, 2007 news update (scroll down). Also see this post. Our more observant readers point out that the release was actually hinted at back in January 2011. We sure had a hard time keeping our mouths shut about it back in late 2010. Mosfilm has released Andrei Rublev on BluRay. More information here and here. There is also a blurb over at blu-ray.com. Thanks, Adam Warren. (We haven't yet had the chance to study this release in detail). For a while, it looked as if The Sacrifice was being prepared by Kino for a BluRay release. Apparently plans have since been scrapped because "the 35mm low-contrast print we were using as our source had printed-in dust and dirt which was unsatisfactory to us." Yours truly (Trond) will be introducing a screening of Solaris at the Calgary Cinematheque in late April. Fascinating photo from LIFE Magazine, 7 April 1967, pp. 66–67. Does anyone have a better scan they can provide us with? Flickr album Inspired by Tarkovsky. Here is a CD re-issue of the Locklatar Swedish folk music record (used by Tarkovsky in The Sacrifice). There are a couple of extra tracks in addition to the original tracks, one of which is performed by Lena Willemark (ECM). It has a nice booklet too. The latest Lykke Li music video, directed by Tarik Saleh, has a familiar setting. Yes, that is Naersholmen, where The Sacrifice was shot. (Trond thanks his 19-year old daughter, Mary, a devoted Lykke Li fan of several years, for the tip). The Swedish book publisher Atrium continue their series of exciting Tarkovsky related releases (all in Swedish language). Their latest release, Apokalypsen som vision (The Apocalyps as Vision), is described in English, here. Atrium is now hard at work preparing the Tarkovsky Diaries for release. Intriguing: Beuys Meets Tarkowsky. Thanks, Gawan Fagard! Our friend Guy Maddin notes "My friend, Luce Vigo, daughter of legendary film director Jean Vigo (Zero for Conduct, L'Atalante), will be at UCLA on April 10 as part of an exhibition of Sergei Parajanov photographs. She will also be accepting the 2011 Parajanov-Vartanov Institute award and introducing the great films of her father for a rare LA screening." Another decade-long friend of ours, filmmaker and musician Keith Rose, has teamed up with vocalist Rebecca Reis-Miller and created an ambient album (direct digital download, CD and soon vinyl) called First Station. They call themselves The Drive to Uqbar, and their Facebook page is here. A documentary of the making of the album is found here. Fans of Barnett Newman and Andrei Tarkovsky might want to check it out. (Spontaneous idea: we'll send one of our screener copies of the excellent and/OAR release Antonioni: Trilogy and Epilogue to a randomly selected person who emails us pointing out at least two Tarkovsky references in the above mentioned documentary. This "contest" closes July 31.) A trailer for the latest (and apparently last) Bela Tarr film, The Turin Horse, is found here. The trailer for José Maria de Orbe's Father is found here.
Dr. Beachcombing has a piece on Stalker (among others) in his blog. See if you can help him out.
We've found a link to a new book, just published: Andrei Tarkovsky's Poetics of Cinema by Thomas Redwood.
We begin with two items about accessing some of Tarkovsky's works on the Internet:
The Swedish book publisher Atrium has initiated an ambitious publishing initative. During the time frame of 2009–2012, they intend to release several books pertaining to the life and works of Andrei Tarkovsky. Last year saw the release of a newly translated and edited Swedish edition of Sculpting in Time. In February of this year, Atrium released Offret, reproducing the original script as well as the final dialogue as it appeared in the film, along with articles of reflections and recollections by personnel who worked on the set of The Sacrifice. Nostalghia.com is proud to have played a small role in the production of these books. A book containing Tarkovsky's famous lecture on the Apocalypse is under preparation, and the Swedish Martyrolog is scheduled for an April 4, 2012 release. We recently received the following review from site visitor Sean O'Byrne:
Ian Christie celebrates Sergei Parajanov, one of our all-time favorite filmmakers, in this article. We are sad to report that Mikhail Vartanov passed away in December of last year. On February 5, 2010, a photography exhibition, I Will Wear Your Beret Papa, by Martiros Vartanov, in the memory of Paradjanov: The Last Spring helmer Mikhail Vartanov (1937-2009), opened at the XVI century Condestable Palace in Pamplona, Spain. It was organized by the Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival and the government of Navarra and featured Vartanov on the streets of Pamplona, and his meetings there with Andrei Tarkovsky's sister, Marina Tarkovskaya, Jean Vigo's daughter, the film critic Luce Vigo, and Russian filmmakers Aleksandr Gordon and Herz Frank at the 2007 Spanish premiere of Paradjanov: The Last Spring, which was part of the Dear Andrei retrospective of documentary films on Andrei Tarkovsky. February of this year saw the presentation of four of Tarkovsky's films in the Kunsthaus Graz' series Into the Night. A review of a new Czech DVD edition of Solaris is now up on Nostalghia.cz.
Happy New Year to all of our readers! Without further ado, here are some recent correspondence from site visitors. First, this from Prof. Norbert P. Franz of Universität Potsdam:
Dear sirs, in my lessons on Russian culture at Potsdam University I frequently consult the films of Andrej Tarkovskij. For the use in class I wrote protocols of some films and the protocol of Stalker together with translation of the dialogues and a postscript has now been published at Potsdam University Press as a conventional book [Stalker : UdSSR, 1980. Regie: Andrej Tarkovskij ; Protokoll des Films in der Original- und der deutschen Synchronfassung / Franz, Norbert P. (ed.). — Potsdam: Universitätsverlag. 2009. 130 p.], and as PDF: available here Best wishes, Prof. Dr. Norbert P. Franz Norbert.Franz[at]uni-potsdam.de Institut für Slavistik Universität Potsdam We received the following from Frank McGovern on December 21, 2009. Dear Sir This is to notify you of an event today 21st Dec 2009 in Kiev, Ukraine. Marina Tarkovskaya and her husband Alexander Gordon will give a talk at the Masterklass cultural Centre, 34 Ivana Mazepy St., Kiev at 19.00. I am an old friend of Marina's, author of a PhD dissertation on Tarkovsky (Oxford University) and Cultural Director of Masterklass and have invited Marina to Kiev in part to discuss a Tarkovsky festival we plan in April. There is already a lot of interest in this event from local media — Marina Arsenieva now rarely travels abroad. Hope you can mention the event on your site. Best wishes, Frank McGovern Next, an interesting note from Leonid Sokolov of Berlin: Hello, I am working on a Paper about Tarkovkys Mirror these days and your website has proved to be an exellent recource for all questions around Tarkovsky. Thank you for this! During my reserch I found a German Dissertation about Mirror, which I find to be very good, and, as it is from 2004, has a very recent bibliography. There is an abstract in English on the second page, so you can have a look and decide if this work would fit into the "Selected Bibliography" (I think the bibliography of this dissertation can serve a lot of interested people) Link to Dissertation Kind regards Leonid Sokolov 
Here is a tantalizing invitation from the Friends of Andrei Tarkovsky Society. Also, please support the Society by becoming a Member... membership form here.
James Macgillivray's Andrei Tarkovsky's Madonna del Parto has been translated into Czech. The article is located here, on our sister site, Nostalghia.cz. Layla Alexander Garrett's book Tarkovsky: The Collector of Dreams has been reviewed by Vera Liber of The East-West Review. Read the review here. Layla is currently organizing a Paradjanov festival in London and Bristol. Check out the festival website, paradjanov-festival.co.uk. A new edition of Sculpting in Time has been published in the Czech Republic. Another great publication from the hands of Milos Frys. More information here. Milos has also recently published a Czech translation of the Jim Jarmusch Interviews 1980-2000, originally published by University Press of Mississippi, 2001. Keep abreast of the latest news on Dmitry Trakovsky's documentary, here. Please support Dmitry's film... we have seen it, and it is an important piece of work. Join him on Facebook and Twitter for the latest news. There is another Andrei Tarkovsky screening series in Los Angeles in a few weeks. Full programme here. Dmitry Trakovsky's film is also being screened (congrats, D.!). Please consider joining The Andrei Tarkovsky Wave on Google Wave. If you need an invite to Google Wave, just drop us a note. Faithful site follower of 9 year, Keith Rose and his friend Clay Holliday have just completed their latest film, The Smallest Atom Stirs. Watch Parts 1 to 10, here.
There is an article in The Grauniad about the new documentary chronicling Rerberg's work on Stalker (see, e.g., our March 14 News update). As well, here is a link to the festival showing the documentary in the U.K. Thanks to Todd Ramsey for the links. There is is a special issue of Image & Narrative on the work of Chris Marker, with articles in French and English. Also see the article The Unknown Statue — A suppressed masterpiece by Alain Resnais and Chris Marker, by Jonathan Rosenbaum. The entertainment web site Review Fix has reviewed Andrei Rublev and Stalker. Check it out! Our colleagues over at Nostalghia.cz have posted a Czech translation of our article Andrei Tarkovsky's Madonna del Parto (by James Macgillivray).
My objective was to create an English language version of the dialogue in the film that was more nuanced and faithful to the sound score than the text provided in the subtitles. [...] The resulting translation is probably of greater interest to students or scholars of film than to casual viewers, however, I thought that there may be some who would find this translation interesting. We thank Vera for her brilliant contribution — you can find it in our Topics section or by following this link.
We haven't got any details on it yet but if you are interested, fnac have it available for 11.88 €. We are reposting here the latest news from the Institut Andreï Tarkovski in Paris, including an English translation this time (PDF document). You probably remember Dmitry Trakovsky and his new documentary Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky (shown recently at the Lincoln Center in New York). A video interview with Dmitry has been published by the FilmMaker magazine. Thanks to Keith Rose for the link!
Reid Rosefelt sent us this link to a very interesting article on his blog titled What Andrei Tarkovsky Said About Francis Coppola. (I wish I knew this story when I met Mr. Coppola a couple of weeks ago at the San Rafael Film Center! —JB). Fascinating stuff with a hilarious punchline and photograph. We couldn't resist: do you like "surreal, bizarre, cult, oddball, fantastique, psychotronic, and the just plain WEIRD" movies? Here is one by your favourite director.
There will be a press screening of Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, NYC, on the 25th, at 11 am. Interested members of the media may contact Dmitry Trakovsky for a press pass. Please consider supporting Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky. Funds are still needed for music rights, subtitling, and ancillary fees... Alva Noto: Tarkovski Revisited. There is reason to believe that some artworks claimed to be by Sergei Paradjanov maybe indeed be fakes. Please check this page on parajanov.com before considering purchasing a Paradjanov collage through any kind of auction, whether online or otherwise. In Moscow, Yury Samodurov, a human rights activist, and Andrey Erofeev, a museum curator, are facing criminal prosecution for organizing an exhibition entitled "Forbidden Art 2006" at the Andrei Sakharov Museum. The two men could be sentenced to up to five years imprisonment. The Tagansky District Court in Moscow is scheduled to resume hearing the case behind closed doors on June 5, 2009. You may join us in supporting Russian human rights activists by demanding that the charges be dropped.
The following is a sampling of some of the most interesting readers' letters we received over the last little while. Thanks to you all, for your interesting notes and always encouraging words. Hello, Many thanks for the excellent site. I can't find any mention on the site of an article in a recent edition of the London Review of Books about Tarkovsky so you might be interested to have the link which is www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n04/pere01_.html. All best wishes, Declan O' Driscoll. --- Hello, I just completed a master thesis about the spiritual connection between the German artist Joseph Beuys and Andrej Tarkowski, which is, as far as I know, a world premiere. I'm very pleased to present you a copy in pdf, which you can publish on the site if you want to, or simply link to it. But notice that I wrote it in Dutch, another beautiful European language. In English there's only a brief abstract available, until I find the money and the right person to translate it in English (so if one of your guys is interested in this job - feel free!) You can have a look at the work here: Main text: www.freewebs.com/gawano/MASTERPROEF_DEF.pdf. Abstract (Dutch and English)www.freewebs.com/gawano/ABSTRACT_NL_ENG.pdf. Image attachement:www.freewebs.com/gawano/MASTERPROEF_Afb. bijlage_DEFcomp.pdf. Here a brief abstract in English: Art towards an integral conciousness. A study based on the work of Joseph Beuys and Andrej Tarkovsky. "This research brings together the works of the German artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) and the Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) both in a visual and philosophical fashion. As both artists refer to the spiritual catastrophe affecting mankind as a whole, the author investigates the extent to which this idea relates to the ancestral theme of the lost paradise. Throughout their endeavors, both artists give art a therapeutical connotation and strongly believe in its cathartic effect vis-à-vis the crisis of rationalism. This departs from the assumption that art is conceptually equivalent to an inner, divine capacity of creation, which allows men to control their own destiny and liberate themselves spiritually. This process is firmly grounded on an evolution towards a aperspective and integral conciousness which, according to the Swiss philosopher Jean Gebser (1905-1973), allows mankind to experience reality free of time and space relations. This expanded experience of reality results into a new imperative, defined as the free act of sacrifice. Beuys and Tarkovsky are aiming at a new way of a moral, responsible as well as ego-free spiritual acting, which allows mankind to reestablish his lost unity with the cosmos, overcoming the fundamental gap between the human being and his origin. The prophet-like position of both Beuys and Tarkovsky is understood as a process of desincarnation, pushing man towards a nearly absurdist way of acting, based on a radicalization of the artistic activity." By the way, I wanted to congratulate you with your marvellous website about Tarkovski and the other cinematic geniouses, it's really wonderfull work! As you can see I referred regularly to your site since the material published there was one af my main sources for primary material about Tarkovski. Sincerely yours, Gawan Fagard Free University Brussels, Belgium Avenue Adolphe Buyllaan 29 B - 1050 Brussel tel: +32(0)2/646 31 80 e-mail: gawan.fagard[at]projectb.be --- Hi Trond, again, thanks for keeping up Nostalghia and all your good work for MoC... About two years ago, I mailed you an article I wrote on historical echos in Andrei Rublev, but asked not to share it on the website, because I didn't get a permission from the publisher (they simply did not answer to my question...). But, luck is on your side: I by coincidence saw that it is fully available through Google books. As I told you before, I'm not happy about language and structure - if I rewrote it now, it would be different - but I think my points are made clear. Feel free to post the link at Nostalghia - and once more: thanks for sharing your love for fine movies (and helping us to get decent info and dvds...) [...] I also found a review that sums it up quite nicely: "Similarly, Pascal Vandelanoitte's essay, An Icon of Change: Andrei Rublev (1966) as a Historical Film about the Birth of Russia, also explores a film where historical background is unspoken, in the service of larger historical statements. The film itself is heavily laden with dates, characters, and events familiar to Russian audiences as cultural insiders but which fail to provide adequate context for cultural others, allowing history to remain a puzzle. As a result, Andrei Rublev has frequently been denied status as an historical film in Western circles. Vandelanoitte's work unpacks the film's historical content, in tandem with the painter's psychological conflict, in order to demonstrate Tarkovsky's use of Rublev's story as an allegory of broader social change in Russia, in the early 15th century." Reference: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, March 2009. Yours sincerely, Pascal Vandelanoitte --- Dear Trond, It is with great sadness that I read of Oleg Yankovsky's death, especially as I spent this afternoon - before reading the news - watching him carry the candle again across the sulphur-baths at Bagno Vignoni. People visiting your site may find it very interesting that this significant scene from Tarkovsky's 'Nostalghia' appears in a video collage at an art exhibition called "Medium Religion" that just opened in Sligo, Ireland. The exhibition has just transferred from the ZKM / Center of Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany. It is curated by Boris Groys and Peter Weibel. Included in the exhibition is a video collage by Boris Groys, called "Religion as Medium". The collage includes the complete candle scene from 'Nostalghia' which is overlayed with a talk by Boris Groys. The full text of Groys' talk is published in the catalogue for the exhibition. Essentially, Groys suggests that the hero of Tarkovsky's film "finds himself in a state of a total lack of opinion". Groys says this in the context of his view that religion, in its sacred space, "marks and describes the state of opinionlessness." He says that people in this state practice repetition as "a ritual of the opinionlessness." To this extent, according to Groys, the "inescapable repetitiveness" of Tarkovsky's hero marks him as "a medium of this lack of opinion." At the opening of this exhibition, I chaired the talk and discussion with Boris Groys. I also spoke of Tarkovsky, in particular his comments on "the atrophy of the organ of belief" in Western man. (I attach this short talk for your interest and please feel free to include any part of this at your website if you find it relevant.) The exhibition "Medium Religion" runs from 23 May 2009 - 16 August 2009 at The Model Satellite, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland. [...] Currently I am reading a translation of Simeon Frank's Reality and Man, which Vadim Moroz, in his recent book, wrote was an important text for Tarkovsky. Certain sections, particularly on art and the artistic process, might have come directly from the mouth - or pen - of Andrei Tarkovsky. For example: "The artist, of course, creates 'of himself' - mere repetition of other people's ideas is not creativeness - but the creative 'self' is not simply the individual in his subjectivity, and not an impersonal bearer of consciousness in general: it is an individually-human embodiment of the super-human spirit acting in man." Or: "At bottom, however, every reality and every spiritual force (in so far as it acts through the centre of human personality and therefore is merged with man's creative freedom) issues from that centre and primary source of reality which we call God. ... It is as a creator that man is most conscious of himself as 'the image and likeness' of God. ... man as creator is a co-partner in God's creativeness." And: "Human spirit is a creative entity to which God as it were partly 'delegates' His own creative power, authorising it to be an active partner in His own creativeness." And too: "Man is not only the servant of God's creativeness. ... God has called man to be not simply His servant, but His free, i.e. creative co-worker." I am currently about two-thirds way through this often difficult text, but it gives quite an insight into the influences on Tarkovsky, particularly during the period of his last two films. The version of the book I have was published by Faber and Faber in 1965, and was translated by Natalie Duddington. All the best, Tony Tony Partridge, Sligo, Ireland.
Some fascinating information on a new HD transfer of The Sacrifice, here. There is an article on Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky at the always interesting bagatellen site. Also check out the trailer. The film will be fatured in July at New York's Lincoln Center. For running updates, follow on Twitter or log onto the official website.
Longtime site follower and contributor Eugene Borzov provided us with the following report from the annual Ivanovo "Andrey Tarkovsky Homage Days":
Dear Trond, I see that despite a huge amount of work in your office you still find time to make your great site move on. I'm sure all Tarkovsky's fans across the world do appreciate it. I'd be pleased if the following information on how Andrey Tarkovsky was remembered last week here in the land of his birth may contribute to your developments. On April 3, 2009 Shavkat Abdusalamov (worked as scenic artist in "Stalker" for some time) came to Ivanovo to talk about his cooperation with Tarkovsky in the late 70s. Vitaly Troyanovsky, Director of the "Isles" program on TV Channel "Kultura", spoke about his vision of "Ivan's Childhood" and introduced his documentary on Shavkat Abdusalamov. On April 4, 2009 all these guests visited Yurievets and participated in the Liturgy, dedicated to our great countryman and then in the opening of the photo exhibition "Stalker Again". Yet another exhibition of Tarkovsky's Polaroid pictures was displayed that day in a new gallery in Ivanovo. This project was initiated by the "Klassika" Association and the "Konsultant" company. About 60 pictures, made by Andrey Tarkovsky in the early 80s both in Russia and Italy were presented in a big screen digital format in the background of live music, performed by Yevgeny Borzov (piano) and Svetlana Kunitskaya(cello). This performance was followed by a multimedia presentation of the director's "Diaries" prepared by students of Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology. Extracts from Tarkovsky's films, citations from his articles and books, as well as poems by Arseny Tarkovsky were included in this presentation. On April 5-6, 2009 the local audience could see two documentaries by Yevgeny Borzov "The Reflected Time" and "Magnetism of Memory", which concluded these Andrey Tarkovsky Homage Days. Please see some pictures of the events featured above in the attachment. Best wishes and a very Happy Easter, Eugene Borzov Ivanovo RUSSIA
"Mirror by Mirror" by Sergei Sviatchenko. A personal tribute to Andrei Tarkovsky, one of the greatest poets of cinematic art. Exhibition from 03. April - 25. May 2009 Photography - Collages - Installation The exhibition "Mirror by Mirror", as well as the publication accompanying it, take the film "The Mirror" by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky as their starting point; a film that has strongly influenced the understanding of art and visual formation of Danish visual artist and architect Sergei Sviatchenko. Ukrainian born living and working in Denmark for more than 20 years, this exhibition traces a path back to the roots of Sviatchenkos visual training at the school of architecture in Karkov Ukraine. Since Sviatchenko's teenage years, Tarkovsky's profoundly poetic and dramatic pictorial universe has nourished Sviatchenko's art and philosophy of life. "Mirror by Mirror" crystallizes the essence of a never physically realized meeting between two artists, who, from their respective places in history, deal with images combining, at the same time, the distance of the imposing with the presence of the detail in urgently insistent and relevant attempts to comment on and describe the world, as well as the many physical and mental spaces that people enter throughout life. By mirroring his own work in Tarkovsky's, Sviatchenko stages his individual narrative as autonomous visual statements, borrowing from and referring to "The Mirror". In search of inspiration and as a preliminary to the exhibition "Mirror by Mirror", Sviatchenko went on a study tour to Moscow in June 2008. Receiving invaluable help from Irina Tchmyreva, curator and ph.D. in Art History, he got the chance to meet the author of a number of books on Andrei Tarkovsky: Tarkovsky's sister, Marina. She was deeply touched by Sergei Sviatchenko's visit, describing his art as both profoundly original and fully in accordance with the spirit of Andrei Tarkovsky: a striving towards the sublime and a particular sense of capturing and maintaining a momentary meeting between the conscious and the unconscious. Another major event for Sviatchenko in Moscow was his meeting with his former professor from the school of architecture in Kharkov, Victor Antonov, whose text on the meeting with Tarkovsky in the Soviet Union during the 80s is a special treat for the readers of the exhibition's extravagant catalogue. Laying the groundwork for the way in which the exhibition was created, the study tour is one of the reasons that "Mirror by Mirror" will be displayed in Russia. The exhibition is accompanied by a broadsheet catalogue in three languages composed of documentary film material from the shooting of "The Mirror" and Sviatchenko's graphic adaptation of this material. The catalogue presents texts by Marina Tarkovskaya, Irina Tchmyrva, Victor Antonov, Mark Le Fanu and Per Carlsen, Danish Ambassador to Russia. The publication is made of several types of paper, colours, sizes and different type fonts created by London based graphic designer James Greenhow. Furthermore, Marina Tarkovsky has helped select the collage works included in the exhibition and in the catalogue. His Excellency Mr. Teymuraz Ramishvili, Russian Ambassador to Denmark, and Marina Tarkovsky, author and sister of Andrei Tarkovsky, opened the exhibition in Arhus. Trine Rytter Andersen curated the exhibition in Arhus and is co-curator together with Gunther Dietrich in Berlin. The exhibition is kindly supported by the russian and danish embassies in Berlin. Vernisage: 03. April 6-9 pm Laudatio: Dr. Peter Funken, Berlin and Layla Alexander Garrett, London The musicpiece, Mirror by Mirror, from Arvo Paert will be performed during the opening. Interpret: Annette Wiegand PHOTO EDITION BERLIN, Ystaderstr. 14a, D- 10437 Berlin- Prenzlauer Berg Tel. 030 41717831 contact@photo-edition-berlin.com / www.photo-edition-berlin.com Curator: Gunther Dietrich
Further, the Intitute has announced a presentation of the audio programme Tarkovski, le son de la terre (see our December 29, 2002 update) on April 8, 2009. Here are the full details. We have an audio recording of this interesting radio program and highly recommend it (as well as the vodkas served after the presentation). We hope to some day obtain permission to post the mp3 file on our site... Please consider joining the Nostalghia.com community on facebook. The following announcement just in from the Virginia Commonwealth University:
The 205-minute version of Andrei Rublev will be showing at the New Beverly, Los Angeles, on April 5, 6, and 7. Thanks to David Sweetman for this update!
Here is a short clip from the new 2008 documentary by Igor Maiboroda titled "Rerberg and Tarkovsky: The Reverse Side of 'Stalker'. In this clip we are shown Isfara where the original Stalker was to be shot. An earthquake in the area prevented the crew from working there. The 140 mins. documentary focuses not only on "talking heads" (very interesting ones, incidentally) but tries to show the inner world and the artistic background of Georgi Rerberg, the cameraman that photographed Tarkovsky's Mirror and the first version of Stalker. This documentary has been criticised for being "anti-Tarkovsky" but we disagree: in our opinion it merely tries to show how important Rerberg's contributions were. This in no way takes anything away from Tarkovsky. The Austrian Film Museum (OeFM) is staging a Tarkovsky retrospective, March 4 to 25, 2009. Refer to their web site for additional details. As usual, their event poster is available for 7 Euros. There was a screening of Stalker at the National Film Theatre, London, on February 10, 2009. It is 28 years since Stalker was first shown in the U.K., at the NFT, when Tarkovsky himself was present on his first visit to the UK. (Apparently, a show of hands revealed that there were about half a dozen people in the packed auditorium who had been there on that night). The film was briefly introduced by Ian Christie. The screening was followed by a discussion with Evgeny Tsymbal and Anatol Lieven. The screening was co-sponsored by Academia Rossica (whose journal will be featuring Stalker in a future issue). See also Danger! High-radiation arthouse!, by Geoff Dyer (The Guardian). Programme notes, page 1 and page 2. Thanks to Tom Cheetham and Vils M. Disanto for contributing to this report. Some Ivan's related material here. Thanks to Patrick for the pointer.
There is a new essay called Andrei Tarkovsky: Truth Endorsed by Life available at
Senses of Cinema. The essay reflects on Tarkovsky's Solaris and Stalker,
in the light of the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset's reference to Man as a
"conscious cosmic phenomenon". Thanks to Conrad Steeves for the tip.
A collection of literary screenplays of some classic Mosfilm movies has been released by the Russian
publishing house Khudozhestvennaya Literatura (in Russian). One volume (ISBN 978-280-5-03455-6) is titled Zerkalo (Mirror) and includes the screenplay
of Tarkovsky's film of the same name. More information here.
Thanks to Eugene Starostin, UCL, London for this information.
Andrei Tarkovsky used several of his fathers poems in his movies. Alex Nemser and Nariman Skakov submitted to us new translations of all poems by Arsenii Tarkovsky appearing in Andrei's films. One of the poems appears here in translation for the first time.
Dmitry Trakovsky, director of Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky, sent us the
following note. We have seen the film, and we are convinced that a Tarkovsky documentary of great significance has been born. Please consider supporting this project.
The cemetery in which Tarkovsky was laid to rest,
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Cemetery,
may now, sadly, be considered endangered. "Since the 1960s, the municipal authorities have periodically attempted to close the cemetery, claiming that the grounds are needed for public services. There have been reports that some of the graves will be opened and the exhumed remains cremated. As of 2006, the cemetery is not officially considered a landmark and has no legal protection." Please visit it while you can. Thanks to Michal Petricek for the pointer.
Site visitor Jeffrey Meyer sent us some interesting Tarkovsky-related artwork he recently made... see here.
More information on Jeremy Robinson's book The Sacred Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky can be found here.
There is a new 8xDVD set out, containing a large collection of films by and about Andrei Tarkovsky. More information on this monumental DVD set from mk2 may be found here. We would appreciate
hearing from any of our readers who have had the chance to take a closer look at these DVDs.
Thanks to Benoît Robinet for the tip.
There is a new Italian 2xDVD release of Nostalghia out. We have no
details on the technical qualities (or lack of such), and would again appreciate
hearing from any of our readers who have had the chance to take a closer look at the DVD.
Petr, of our sister site Nostalghia.cz, wrote
this report after his visit to the location where The Sacrifice was shot. Also refer to our own humble
location guide before planning
next summer's vacation...
Frequent site visitor and contributor (and filmmaker) Keith Rose's music album Minus One is now out on iTunes. Here is an amazon link as well. We purchased the album, and (being fans of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Brian Eno, et al.) we loved it!
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