Who is Andrei Tarkovsky? [Indie Wire]
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- There is no one in the history of cinema who photographs the poetic beauty of nature quite like Andrei Tarkovsky. He made only seven feature films and yet, his impact on cinema remains one of the most substantial.
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This video essay was written, edited, and narrated by Tyler Knudsen.
Original article: www.indiewire.c...
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Solaris (1972 dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
Stalker (1979 dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Mirror (1975 dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Sacrifice (1986 dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Killers (1956 dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, Marika Beiku, Aleksandr Gordon)
Yojimbo (1961 dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Un Chien Andalou (1929 dir. Luis Buñuel)
The Seventh Seal (1957 dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Pickpocket (1959 dir. Robert Bresson)
Rome, Open City (1945 dir. Roberto Rossellini)
Breathless (1960 dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Andrei Rublev (1966 dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Steamroller and the Violin (1961 dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
Ivan’s Childhood (1962 dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
Nostalgia (1983 dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
The guy has made some of the most beautiful films in history.
COOPER
Where to start?
@@odyssey.studios Andrei Rublev? Just watched it tonight and havent seen any of his others. Was able to watch this 3 hour masterpiece in one sitting. If you are a fan of all 3: Kubrik, Chaplin, Leone... this should go well
@@frxdispatchgaming1043 oh God,thanks mate
@@jamesleodelacruz subtitles
Tarkovsky is one of the few Directors who doesn't have to "say" much and can leave you with an almost hypnotic impression. To this day Stalker disturbs me, and I can't fully understand why.
Stalker was the first Tarkovsky film I watched and I didn't like it at the time. I was expecting something completely different based on the synopsis and I wasn't in the right mood. I absolutely love it now. I think The Mirror is my favorite of his. I find it so contemplative and engrossing without hinging on following specific plot points. I can put it on and get lost in my own thoughts. I think of it as the exact opposite of Inception (another movie I love). Inception demands focus and logical reasoning through dialogue whereas The Mirror uses imagery to induce an almost meditative state. Of course, it's possible that others think about The Mirror completely differently.
I think you'd really like Andrei Rublev. It's very long (3 1/2 hours), but it is divided into segments, so you can break up the viewing if needed.
I think it "disturbs" as you said, because it is a slow moving "CIRCLE" he makes using the cinematographer's camera. First, in the opening scene where the camera goes RIGHT to LEFT on the mom, child and father and then back on the father, child and mom and you do not know who is the sick one of the three; but this first CIRCLE was not finished there. Then later in the movie and in the zone the camera is used SPECTACULARLY making a PHENOMENAL CIRCLE starting from the stalker laying in the water paddle and going up, up, up, up, up, up, up, and eventually finishing in the exact place where it started. This is UNSETTLING for most of us because it is slow moving and circles the life of the main character in the movie. Towards the end of the movie, the camera returns to the family and shows who they really care about. Maybe our life is a CIRCLE? If it is, then STALKER is probably the most BEAUTIFUL reflection of it even made.
The beauty of this mans work. “Life doesn’t make sense. So why the fuck do you expect art to?” - David Lynch
I really like Tarkovsky, he could show the nature so beautiful as I've never seen
Totally agree!
*proceeds to check out all of Tarkovsky's filmography*
Tarkovsky makes films unlike any other. They can be a bit jarring at first (after seeing so many face-paced mainstream movies), but they are so worth it.
Watch all of the other great Soviet films. They are so under-appreciated and many masterpieces were forgotten after the fall of the USSR.
@@TheButterMinecart1 oh man i posted this when i was a little film bro haha
love that quote at the end...how true. a visionary poet of the art. what future does cinema have? VR? wander a landscape manipulated to a consumers fantasy...no Future.
I truly adore him. his films arent even what I specifically 'love', but i just cant help to appreciate all the works he put in them. I once 'planning' to hate him just because I didnt get his storytelling style on the first try, but his craft is so well designed; the visual, staging, blocking, everything--that i cant even forget abt it. Thus, made me start trying to learn his perspective and start to admire him and his art.
i got goosebumps just watching this...!
I only recently got introduced to Andrei Tarkovsky. I saw his movie called 'The Mirror' and was hugely impressed by the way he shot it. It is almost as if you are made to move with the characters in each shot. The subject matter can be very hard to understand because of the poetic nature and artistic vision but it challenges you to think... think hard. A "Visual Poetry" for sure. I haven't seen anyone to date who shoots a movie in the way he would.
Tarkovsky made burning houses look beautiful
He kinda made everything look beautiful and divine.
A concise and yet sagacious introduction to Tarkovsky...
peace, brutha...
Thanks!
I forget if that is from Bach's Mass in B minor or his MATTHAUS-PASSION. Either way it's Bach. And it's beautiful.
Je Javier that's the "Erbarme Dich" from the St. Matthew Passion!
He was really ahead of time ! His views on cinema , contemporary life ,time was completely different from others . He gave birth to new sense of cinema . When I first saw the " The Stalker " it just broke me completely . My journey was ended with his long interview . I don't know what had influenced him to do so. But there is something spiritual in his direction that touches the soul !
You could take a still from one of his movies and it would stand on it's own as a masterpiece of photography. Can't say the same about other films by others. He is a true cinematic artist.
One I doubt you will ever see coming out of Hollywood.
I felt like the entire dialogue for stalker was a poem and it was great
One thing that bothers me about Tarkovsky - I'm too stupid to appreciate his movies.
Mr. Deadman lol don't be so hard on your self. It's an acquired taste, but if you become interested in cinema and it's history you'll come around to his narrative . Take them as they are.
Instead of intellectualizing a Tarkovsky film you should feel it first. Also historical context helps a lot, for Andrei Rublev especially
Totally agree. The thing I love about Tarkovsky is that you don't necessarily need to dissect his movies in order to fully appreciate them. It isn't so much trying to interpret what the artist is trying to say as it is how the images and themes relate to you as a person.
I've watched only "The Mirror" like 5 times to understand, hahahaha
Caitlin, wut?
This would be an awesome weekly series!
Thanks! 'Filmmakers You Should Know' is a series I made for Indie Wire a while back. The license is up for them, so I am now able to put them on my channel. I've been making tweaks -- slowing the pacing down a bit and cleaning up some stuff. I'll be putting them out every so often. Hopefully they'll find new life with the audience here!
CinemaTyler that's great to hear! I appreciate your presence in the YT community, Tyler. There aren't enough film geeks on here :/
This is a beautiful tribute- I hope you keep making videos like this! Man, you need more subscribers...
The Stalker, is like a dream; not real but believable. Brilliant man.
The most profound and spiritual director ever. And my favorite along Kubrick.
when i first viewed solaris it destroyed me
Solaris did me 'dirty'. Its very hard to followed but as much as i wanted to hate it, i cant really do it. bcs that movie is so beautiful. it confused the hell out of me.
over.caffein why did you want to hate it?
@@yeahmanforeva because solaris is my first out of norm movies. Im so used to fast pace narrative generic movies, so it pissed me off bcs im so disturb by the huge difference. but just as much it confused me, I cant help but keep thinking about it for a week straight. Solaris awakened some side in my mind n perspective.
His cinema is a gift to humanitiy
Beautifully said.
2:60 In Soviet Russia, cinema uses you
2 minutes 60 seconds
XD
😆😆😆😆😆
Does that mean 3bminutes was it a test
Lol that was a funny joke, but he is right. People who make great art (not only art) are obsessed by it. That is what their life is all about. It takes a lot of effort to make great art and no one can become master over night. You have to be obsessed to keep on moving till you reach master level. This is why modern art sucks so much. Cause people want instant gratification. Look at music these days and new movies are shit. I guess this is what he meant, but I think you did understand it yourself.
"cinema uses you"
yep they just reflected unusual stories of life and using you to spend money on theater
Tarkovsky is a Legend
A God
Great job, Tyler! Your presence on RUclips is refreshing. I subscribe to a lot of channels, but yours is one I get excited about every time a new vid comes out. Keep it up!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate it!
Tarkovsky is one of the most talented and creative artists in the world film history.❤❤
Well, shit. Another director I have to marathon. Damn you, you great content creator
ActuallyDarcy People who dare to do Tarkovsky's marathon or watch their movies over and over are like gods to me, I get bored very easily XD
Thanks!
@@violettbellerose1173 oh... But i hope you watch everything in your time, is beautiful.
Yesterday i watched The mirror, what a beautiful movie one of the best movie i have ever seen. I watched it in Russian with English subtitles, There seemed no requirement for watching english dubbed version as it was a poem, visual poetry which reveals itself. And on the top of that those poetic verses used in movie makes it really beautiful. And the ending of the movie is as beautiful/great as it can get.
Mates if you even know the name of Andrei tarkovsky, you're true Cinephiles .
1:50 It's pronounced "EE-van".
Yeah in Russian not English
@@BrennerOrsak It's the Name! So its pronunciation should be as it 'd been given to a human by his parents. In russian. So,even in english it's EE-van.
Thanks and hats off for your blog and its amazing content.
America needs to be educated at so many levels, specially now.
I hope, soon, you'll pay an hommage to Kieslowski, starting with his intense Dekalog..
Keep up the good work mate.
An excellent servant of Cinema.
His Art and Imagination Creates Meaning of intellectual and society.
Master's Supremacy 🙇♀️
"Erbarme Dich", what a deep reference. It is this melody the Writer from "Stalker" whistles...
Tarkovsky is a fucking genius - I´m very happy that finally he gets some credit for his extremely influential body of work.
Too short on one of the greatest film makers...
the video too looked like a beautiful piece of poetry....can i please get the name of background score u used?..thanks in advance.
Thanks! The music is "St Matthew Passion" by Bach.
I hit the subscribe button withing the first 10 seconds. Congrats for a great video.
Solaris is on my Top 3 Sci-fi movies of all time
Russia and Soviet Union aren't the same thing.
The classmate he teamed up with for "The Steamroller and the Violin" is Andron Konchalovskiy.
He "fled" Moscow in 1941 obviously because there was no reason for doing so in 1939.
1:38. This classmate is Andrei Konchalovskiy
The finest filmmaker the world will know
Tarkovsky is the greatest filmmaker of them all. By far.
Poetic
I am yet to see any sort of material on Tarkovsky or his films that doesn't mention this word.
greatest director of all time
im waiting on a full analysis of this legend´s movies!
Thank you ☺️
And I that was just about to watch Solaris and The Mirror. Strange...
Both are great. I see your picture. Persona is one of the greatest movies ever, really a magnificent piece of art
Stunning, fascinating man.
beautiful video!!!
Nice short introduction. Thank you
Дмитрий Зомбак будет рад этому видео. Может даже подкаст наконец смонтирует.
а причем Зомбак, к этому видео?
Thanks!
Спасибо!
Greatest of all that is he. 👏👏👏
The greatest
anyone know this song?
found it. the sacrifice form bach's matheus passion
Erbarme Dich
Yes!!
oof I just realized he died on December 29 1986, at least he lived to see the CNPP disaster which has some slight involvement to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (even though it never happened in the book and/or game for obvious reasons)
Can anyone recommend me what the 3 BEST tarkovsky films are? I’d like to know where to begin as I’ve only seen stalker years ago and that’s it
3:18???????? bro, why, please tell me why???
Why is the music only on the left channel?
you should check "THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT" (1965)
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll add it to my watchlist!
And Marketa Lazarova too!
I bet none of you know Elem Klimov,Aleksey German or Larisa Shepitko. All amazing directors.
henkerify I agree
Andy M hey mate,glad to hear that.
I know what are you talking about very well. I watched Come and See, Rasputin, Farewell, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Khrustalyov, My Car! and The Ascent. Not once...
Yes I really must take an interest in Tarkovsky past Solaris and Stalker which I have watched many times. The story of how Tarkovsky made Stalker is quite an epic in itself - with some reports suggesting that T's early death was linked to the polluted places where some of Stalker was shot. A worthy subject for a Cinema Tyler making-of mini-series?
Ironic that CT chose a cover image for this video from Stalker which was not mentioned.
Thanks for the suggestion! The production of Stalker is such an interesting story. I actually chose the thumbnail because I felt bad that I didn't have enough of Stalker in this super short video. I'm really excited for the Criterion edition coming out soon!
He looks related to Howard Moon
What is the track title in this video ?
Well done
I love "Solaris" and pretty much everything of Gondry's, but you have no mention of Krzysztof Kieslowski?
One does not simply ask who Tarkovsky is
I so want to get into his movies but I haven't found one that has clicked with me yet. I love the cinematography and visual aspect but that's about it. I feel like I'm missing out :/ I've seen Stalker and The Mirror so far.
Music in outro?
I feel Kalatozov is just as good or better. I love his films Cranes Are Flying, Letter Never Sent and especially Yo Soy Cuba.
I feel so bad cause I loved stalker so much, it’s one of my favorites of all time, but I couldn’t appreciate his other films (I saw Ivan’s childhood and mirror, but they were to much for me). Do you guys think I should try seen sollaris? I really want to see another film that gets even close to what I felt in stalker
I know it’s been a while since this comment but if you liked Stalker you should like Solaris. Some of the visuals are very similar but I think the story is “tighter” in Solaris. Stalker is still a masterpiece though and it’s hard to choose between them.
That's true. He died for cinema, he died from cinema.
No Andrei Rublev reference?Wtf
My thought, too. 😢
what's the music?
Saint Matthew's Passion by Bach
Darude Sandstorm by Bach
You really made this video without mentioning Stalker?
kino
0:15 - midlake fan use this clip as video
When Tarkovsky creates images of poetry and realism, he is at his creative best.
When Tarkovsky tries to verbalize his poetic vision, he feels guilty and falls back on an almost Greek Orthodox Church mentality of moralism which cancels his artistic vision.
The truth of the matter is that when Tarkovsky and his characters are silent and the action "flowing", a deeper meaning occurs and there is a poetic insight which deepens his fabulous visual artistry.
Please do not misunderstand me, Tarkovsky is beyond most filmmakers and his movies are the best ever created (visualized).
However, when Tarkovsky tries to verbalize his creation, he becomes didactic and moralistic.
His gifts are poetic and non-verbal and he should put his verbalizations in a book, not in his movies and let the movies speak for themselves.
Russians, in general, have been bullied by their leaders to such an extent, everything they do must be justified for some outside entity.
Instead, a true artist justifies his vision to no one and verbalization is the enemy of creativity and Tarkovsky needed a "stronger spine" when it comes to his movies.
His verbalization in his movies, sometimes inhibit the movement of his visual creations and I tend to plug my ears when his characters talk.
Te amo 👍💋❤🖤❤
Andrei Tarkovsky: *speaks* Slavs: Our lord and savior has spoken again!
What a vague tip at the end. I'd rather stick with Kubrick's one, for obvious reasons.
Joworowsky
xD
I could argue for days that if there is such thing as the poetic beauty of the nature, BBC's documentaries or photos of Andrew Parkinson captures them way better than Tarkovsky.
Who is he? He da goat
is Tarkovsky better than Kubrick ???
Apples and oranges, both masters in their crafts. I prefer Tarkovsky for the emotional impact his films leave. Kubrick's impeccable attention to detail and direction is highly satisfying as well. Film students can learn a lot by watching both these great directors filmography.
Nikhil Bhagat they are two sides of the same coin.
Tarkovsky is better than Kubrick in my bias opinion. Reminder that both 2 of them is a great auteur with a big contribution to the world of cinema.
Kubrick has focus and vision. Tarkovsky is all about over self- indulgence to the exclusion of the audience. So no.
Tarkovsky films like Mirror is all more human than any of Kubrick ones in my opinion. The only Kubrick film that reach the same level of height is 2001.
But Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev and Stalker all have the same height too.
To me Bergman, Tarkovsky, Bresson, Lynch held the top spot. I still haven't see the works of Fellini, Kurosawa, Antonioni tho
the video is not playing for me
Olexander Dovzhenko and Yuriy Illyenko are great and more interesting
Good, but pronunciation of Russian names....
Can you just imagine... Andrei with all these photoshop hullabullas?
OK, I understand, he was no fan of sci-fi shop... and yet, he was among the few directors who absolutely knew how one could USE them. End of story.
My apologies (of course).
My mirror has broken.
Ofcourse.
Masger.
Ubermaster.
Andrei.
how the fuck I didn't know of him?
Good movies for insomniacs!
I agree that the aesthetic is almost always breathtaking. But most of the time I have no idea what is actually going on in his films. Maybe it’s the language barrier, maybe some mistakes were made in telling the story. Maybe I’m too dumb, and my attention span has suffered too much. I don’t know, I still want to see all his films. But it feels like a chore, it took me three days to watch Solaris. I’m sure the way the film is viewed matters as well. But to be honest, it bugs me how pretentious film lovers can be. Did you actually understand what you were seeing, or were you pretending because of the following? I’ve enjoyed the films of his I’ve seen whole heartedly. But they were tough to follow, and I only derived sincere joy out the aesthetic of films like stalker and the mirror. Maybe it takes some time tapering away from today’s films. Maybe I need to see more bad films to better understand the great ones. I don’t know why I’m pissed off.
He wasnt born in the soviet union because it wasnt the soviet union when he was born
Tarkovsky was born in 1932, and USSR existed from 1922 to 1991.
Tarkovsky is GOD
The actual One might disagree with that...
And might take umbrage.
Suggest you Google "Pascal's Wager," if you're not already familiar with it; fun reading! Then ask yourself: just how sure am I?
smartalek180, this is by far the most pathetic comment I have ever read on RUclips.
smartalek180 I agree with CometCourse. As for PAscal's Wager, any semi-competent first year philosophy student could pick it apart. What if you're mistaken about which god you worship, then? Why pick just YHWH, the tribal Jewish god (the one in your Bible)? There are literally thousands.
Only russians can fully understand his films
JIery xa no
There are Russian films that only Russians can understand. But its not about Tarkovsky.
only cinephiles can fully understand his films.
I’m a half Russian, and I feel ashamed to not speak the language very well.
I love Tarkovsky. But I think Malick is doing much better job in showing us beauty of nature
YODISMO na cambuquinha
And yet this master's "visual poetry" is insulted by indiewire's insistence on stamping their crap logo all over Tarkovsky's works of art.