Tarkovsky was an astounding filmmaker, poet, and artist from Russia who created films of the most impossible beauty, melancholy, mystery and amazement, capturing the true feeling of time within life and its effect on the soul. Every scene composed in singularity, the duration of the entire shot, and the completeness of the films are as beautiful and intelligent as any of the Russian realists, and brought to a new level in time and movement in the still young medium of artistic filmmaking. His polaroids were honest and lovely and everything he did was true to himself despite the hardships of creating such films when the art form of film was becoming lost on the public already in its infancy. He’s a terrific reminder of retaining one’s own artistic vision at all costs. The book upon which Stalker was based was written by the Strugatsky brothers, having bought all of their English translations I could find, only halfway through them, and each one is a mind-blowing sci-fi head trip of existentialism… highly recommend.
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