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Post by svsg on Feb 23, 2009 19:37:10 GMT
Zerkalo  Andrei Rublev Stalker  Solyaris  The Killers Nostalghia Capo, did you talk about your big-screen experience of Zerkalo and Nostalghia somewhere? Did you watch them in close succession? How was the experience? |
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Post by Capo on Feb 23, 2009 19:42:55 GMT
I didn't see Nostalgia on the big screen. I saw Mirror and Ivan's Childhood. I went into both quite tired; Ivan won me over eventually (I'd seen it before), but Mirror had me from the off. The print was fine.
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Post by svsg on Feb 23, 2009 19:48:03 GMT
I want to draw your attention to another question of mine : here  |
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Post by Capo on Feb 23, 2009 21:10:47 GMT
Haha, in true svsg style. I actually thought of that question earlier while I was in the library (FCM roolz ma laaf). Will get on it shortly, shorty.
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Post by Michael on Jun 16, 2009 21:19:37 GMT
I was just watching Offret and couldn't even finish half of it.
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Post by Anasazie on Jun 16, 2009 23:38:27 GMT
Yeah the first half is quite pretentious i found too, seemed to think he needed to do a Bergman because he used his island maybe, all over-articulated internal torment!!!!! Does get better though, so stick with it.
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Post by RNL on Jun 16, 2009 23:52:46 GMT
I must revisit Tarkovsky's films. Got a hunch he fell off after Stalker.
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Post by Anasazie on Jun 17, 2009 0:07:02 GMT
Yeah i need to revisit Nostalghia...it was the second film of his i saw a long long time ago and the only one i haven't seen more than once, i remember loving it and it is more vivid in my mind than some of the others. I think it might be the only one i haven't seen on the big screen too......I saw Stalker in a dark room with strangers last year and even that went down slightly in my estimation. Would love to get hold of the book!
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Post by Jenson71 on Aug 23, 2009 21:15:25 GMT
I got Mirror in the mail. It's my first Tarkovsky and I don't know much about it or him at all. I usually check tvguide.com before watching a 'high-art' film, but they don't have it listed! I thought they had every movie.
You will have to be my tvguide.com. How should I prep myself for this? What should I be looking for and expecting?
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Post by Omar on Aug 23, 2009 23:33:24 GMT
Long takes, wind, and a house on fire.
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Post by Jenson71 on Aug 23, 2009 23:42:04 GMT
I usually hate movies with wind, but I think I'll still give this a try.
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Post by svsg on Aug 24, 2009 3:21:47 GMT
How should I prep myself for this? What should I be looking for and expecting? A couple of advices - 1. For some reason, like me, if you do not understand the film (I mean plot wise [actually there is not much of a plot in the conventional sense], not thematically) the first time, try watching it a second time. 2. You should be looking at it as a very autobiographical work, which is what it is essentially (except for one scene which he included to help audience make sense of it all). |
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Post by svsg on Oct 28, 2009 19:35:43 GMT
Jenson, did you like Mirror?
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Post by Michael on Oct 28, 2009 20:50:42 GMT
"An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world."
- Tarkovsky
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Post by svsg on Oct 28, 2009 20:53:25 GMT
^ love that quote. And also Andrei Rublev, which is based on that thought.
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Post by Michael on Oct 28, 2009 20:59:52 GMT
That thought has been in my head for years, but I've always been afraid to say it and kind of repressed it considering I'm so fond of Art. I felt guilty that one of my greatest passions is a result of "an ill-designed world".
I think I will watch Rublev tonight.
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Post by Jenson71 on Nov 2, 2009 16:20:30 GMT
Jenson, did you like Mirror? I never ended up watching it. When my brother went to the Air Force, he sent back all the Netflix movies and ended our registration. Also, my school library doesn't have the movie, so it will be a while before I see it. Shoot :/ |
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Post by Michael on Nov 21, 2009 23:06:57 GMT
Finally got around to watching Andrei Rublev.
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Post by svsg on Nov 22, 2009 1:55:39 GMT
and.... ;D
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Post by RNL on Nov 22, 2009 2:09:56 GMT
He's announcing that you now have the privilege to go rummaging around in the thread to find his star rating.
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