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Seasoned moviegoers have come to recognize certain visual cues that let them know they're about to witness scenes of unspeakable brutality: A close-up of a pot of boiling liquid in a movie that's not about cooking. The emergence of a straight razor in
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I have been reading reviews of Avatar, and have decided I am not going to see it. Now, I know that sounds political, but really it isn't. There are any number of films I love whose politics differ radically from my own. The reason I have decided to
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Scene 2 from The Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky
This is one of the opening scenes from The Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky.
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Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig, director of this year's British movie darling "An Education," has no interest in the "auteur" label. "It's much more an act of generosity to make films than a personal artistic project," she says. Rejecting the
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Adapted from Cormac McCarthy's bleak post-apocalyptic novel, The Road concerns a father (Viggo Mortensen) and son struggling to survive after an unspecified catastrophe eradicates civilization. J. Hoberman at the Village Voice thinks "perhaps only a
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Scene from "The Mirror" by Andrei Tarkovsky
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by Sam Shiffman | 11.17.2009
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A band walks into a bar. The singer pulls down his pants and wraps his penis around the mic stand. The rest is history.
Now let me set the mood. The Place: The Court Tavern in New
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I suppose the joke of this strip is that our MC is admonishing not the audience but the actors on the necessity of turning of their cell phones, because HAW HAW THE KIDS TODAY AND THE CELL PHONES, amiright? But I’m frankly much more interested in the
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'Two geniuses on one set is one too many' … Andrei Tarkovsky (left) and Georgi Rerberg in a still from Rerberg and Tarkovsky: The Reverse Side of Stalker. Photograph: Sheffield Doc/Fest
This film's been puzzling cineastes ever since it appeared in 1979.
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ELEGEIA a film by Mark Beneria, in memory of Andrei Tarkovski. with Margartia Mantaka. Okuda Asuya - Shakuhachi flute filmed December 29-30, 2008 at the Russian Orthodox Cemetery near Paris in Sainte-Geneiève-des-Bois
ELEGEIA a film by Mark Beneria, in memory of Andrei Tarkovski. with Margartia Mantaka. Okuda Asuya - Shakuhachi flute filmed December 29-30, 2008 at the Russian Orthodox Cemetery near Paris in Sainte-Geneiève-des-Bois
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In Judge Daryl Loomis's experience, saunas are for committing sins, not forgiving them.
Note: This is a pre-release review. will be available for purchase on October 27th, 2009
is thick with symbolism, philosophy, and ruminations on the
nature of sin
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Spousal hobbling and primal fears: just another day’s work for Willem Dafoe. Although he’s starred in plenty of mainstream films—his role as Spider-Man’s Green Goblin comes to mind—he’s always had a taste for the extreme, whether playing a real-life
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CLAREMONT - Claremont resident Dmitry Trakovsky, 24, will screen his feature film "Revisiting Tarkovsky," honoring Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, today and Sunday.
his chain's first time working the film.
Greg Laemmle, president of Laemmle
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Show you have a sense of humour by placing a bag outside the cops' helicopter hanger with the word BOMB written on it. This will stop the police chasing you in the sky.
Hover the chopper over the bank while your men abseil in.
Set off some minor
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The name of the late Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky has practically become synonymous with the rigorous extremes of art-house cinema: Either you find the immersive long takes and enigmatic imagery of films such as the original Solaris and The Mirror
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Nashville Scene
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Beautiful, touching, yet sometimes harsh, this multilayered drama centers on poet Inga (Tony and Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden); her eight-year-old daughter, Indigo (Harden's real-life daughter, Eulala Scheel); and her insensitive husband,
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Library Journal
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Andrei Tarkovsky (April 4, 1932 - December 29, 1986) was a Soviet Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist and opera director. He invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream During 1985, he shot the film The Sacrifice in Sweden. At the end of the year he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. In January 1986, he began treatment in Paris. The Sacrifice was presented at the Cannes Film Festival and received the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury, the FIPRESCI prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. As Tarkovsky was unable to attend due to his illness, the prizes were collected by his son, Andrei Jr.
Excerpt from the movie "Zerkalo" by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975
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The son of two poets (his father wrote the Russian national anthem), Konchalovsky originally studied as a concert pianist before moving on to filmmaking, writing scripts for acclaimed director Andrei Tarkovsky. His short thesis film, "The Boy and the
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Lars von Trier is a tantalising film-director
who provokes his audiences sometimes to the point of humiliation. He is also a
master of visual theology. His Antichrist
is the antithesis of Mel Gibson's tawdry and emotive The Passion of the
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The movies on this list are a good indicator of just how diverse the science fiction genre is. From the epic philosophical ideas of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris to the joyful space opera of Star Wars and Flash Gordon, the films here are linked by
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How to Change the World
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Andrei Tarkovsky's masterpiece, often described as the 'Russian 2001', centres around a space station situated over the mysterious Solaris Ocean. A minimalist, existential sci-fi drama, whose 2002 remake by Steven Soderbergh also achieved considerable
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The Independent
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I’ve had many strange moments with Lars “Von” Trier.
I sat, soaking wet, in a thunderstorm at an outdoor cinema in Australia and cried like a baby at the end of Dancer in the Dark, I laughed so inappropriately at
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1 OF 24)
Written by: Philip K Dick
Art by: Tony Parker
Additional Material: Warren Ellis
Published by: Boom!
Quick: How many great books have also been made into great movies?
Of those, how many of them were not
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Nearly $60,000 in pledges was collected and distributed to nine successful projects yesterday, making it Kickstarter’s most successful single day to date. The successful projects included four that raised over $10,000: the incredibly popular (1500%
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I took my time going from the West Village to Lincoln Center for Sunday night's 8:30 p.m. screening of Andrei Tarkovsky's "Stalker'' (1979), figuring there would be lots of seats available. Was I surprised to find that the movie was sold out, although
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A hypnotic, three-hour medieval drama about a religious-icon painter—who’s with me?!? Seriously, if you’ve ever intended on seeing anything by the late Russian master Andrei Tarkovsky (best known for 1972’s sci-fi psychodrama Solaris), now’s the time.
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Doug Cummings reviews Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky and Rerberg and Tarkovsky: The Reverse Side of âStalkerâ, two new documentaries about the life and films of one of the greatest directors of all time.
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A scene from Andrei Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev," screening as part of "Revisiting Tarkovsky," July 7-14 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Starting tomorrow, July 7, and continuing through July 14, the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York
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It took me a few years to realize what a complete library YouTube would turn out to be: not just a flea market of random fun finds – all the singing dogs and crashing skateboards – but a real visual and aural library of actual art, meticulously
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In my continuing effort to catch up on classic films that I've never seen, I recently watched the 1966 Soviet film "Andrei Rublev," all three hours and 25 minutes of it. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and concerned with the great Russian painter of
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One of Russia's most popular screen actors, Oleg Yankovsky even attracted the tag of sex symbol, though his serious-minded approach meant that he dismissed the appellation and was always careful to distinguish between "most popular" and "best".
With
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A long-time collaborator with Ingmar Bergman as an actor, scriptwriter and stage director, Josephson successfully branched out into international roles in the 1980s, in such films as Philip Kaufman's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and Istvan
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Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan is one of the current Big Three film giants of Europe in that he is a throwback to the days of visionary directors like Stanley Kubrick, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, and Andrei Tarkovsky.
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CANNES, France — It's been a blood-soaked first week at the Cannes Film Festival — at least onscreen.
Six festivals ago, Lars von Trier galvanized a mediocre competition with his coup de cinéma, Dogville. Returning this year, again in the midst of an
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SF Weekly
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Reporting from Cannes, France --
His hallucinatory horror film "Antichrist" elicited derisive giggles and howls from an irate media audience. Later, he was booed at his own news conference. But Lars von Trier is insisting, as he so often does, that he
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Los Angeles Times
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I don't necessarily love all of Steven Soderbergh's movies, but who could? The guy's career seems devoted to Emerson's principle that consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. I met Soderbergh recently in New York to talk about his new movie "The
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Salon
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"[His] film career spanned five decades and included leading roles in many movies that endure as icons for millions across the former Soviet Union. [] He also played leading roles in films of the brooding Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, including
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ArtsJournal
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MOSCOW - Oleg Yankovsky, the star of cult films by Andrei Tarkovsky and the last actor designated as a People's Artist of the USSR, died in Moscow yesterday after battling cancer. He was 65.
Mr. Yankovsky, born to an aristocratic family exiled to
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Boston Globe
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Beloved Russian actor Oleg Yankovsky has died after a battle with cancer. He was 65. His career spanned five decades and included many iconic roles in classic Russian movies like Shield & Sword and Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalgia. One of his
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Cinema Blend
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Beloved Russian actor Oleg Yankovsky has died after a battle with cancer. He was 65.
His career spanned five decades and included many iconic roles in classic Russian movies like Shield & Sword and Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalgia.
One of his final films,
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