On what would be his 80th birthday, we take a look back at Andrei Tarkovsky and his profound mark on cinema. “The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and ...

In the Russian director’s Italy-set 1983 great, a scholar has an existential crisis while researching the life of a composer ...

A haunting dystopian sci-fi classic on Max blends mystery and philosophy into a mesmerizing journey that still captivates ...

I received an email asking if I’d post something about the upcoming Film Society of Lincoln Center Andrei Tarkovsky retrospective at the Walter Reade. Sure, I wrote back, laughing as I imagined that a ...

The film isn't a direct adaptation.

"Through our sins, evil has assumed human form." Janus Films has debuted a new trailer for a restoration re-release of the acclaimed classic Andrei Rublev, the fourth film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky ...

Andrei Tarkovsky is widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers who ever lived, and for good reason. His movies feel less like stories and more like dreams you can’t quite shake after waking up.

The essay, put together by Kogonada, highlights Tarkovsky’s aim to place the focus on humanity instead of technology. As the video’s narrator points out, Tarkovsky spends little time on the ...

The highbrow Soviet director's movies seem like a strange fit for the video site best known its cute kitten clips. But the experiment just might work. Mosfilm Solaris starts slowly. The Soviet ...

According to the sacraments of global cinema, the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky was a kind of latter-day saint of the big screen. Exiled from his homeland, monastically devoted to his craft, he ...

Many art historians believe that Andrei Rublev was the greatest painter of the 15 th century, and his religious icons still adorn churches throughout Russia. In analyzing Rublev’s art, it would be ...