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7 July 2009 4:29 AM, PDT | Interview Magazine | See recent Interview Magazine news »

I know a guy who likes to torture his friends by making them sit through Tarkovsky films. His stuff is slow, ponderous, and never less than two hours long. It's not for everyone-even among movie buffs.  Tarkovsky's sprawling medieval-era biopic Andrei Rublev "suffers from the rhetoric and depersonalization that have always hung over Russian cinema," in the words of eminent film scholar David Thomson, while Solaris, the filmmaker's 1972 foray into sci-fi, is a series of "senselessly elaborate" visuals.

On the other hand, The Sacrifice (1986) "has some of the most glorious extended shots in film history," to quote Thomson again, and Solaris put Steven Soderbergh under such a spell that he remade it, rather unsuccessfully, in 2002.  Tarkovsky is definitely alive and well in the minds of filmmakers. All of a sudden, there's a handful of documentaries about him either kicking around the festival circuit or in the works. »

1 article from 2009