Following an impressive 15-year theatrical run in Russia, this sci-fi movie has become a film school staple (especially among ...

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 ...

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 ...

An extensive archive of letters, book drafts, audio tapes and photographs relating to the film director Andrei Tarkovsky is to appear at auction in London. Sotheby's has announced it is to sell an ...

"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 ...

"To me he is a God." –Lars von Trier. Kino Lorber has revealed a new re-release trailer for Nostalghia, one of the last films Andrei Tarkovsky made in the 1980s just a few years before he passed away.

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 ...

Tarkovsky’s mysterious epic – a response to the ‘phoniness’ of 2001: A Space Odyssey – draws you into its melancholic dreamworld superbly At university in the early 90s, friends who were studying ...

Andrei Tarkovsky recalls his first impression of cinema in this 50-minute BBC special, saying he failed to connect with the medium and declared “cinema an enigma.” Those initial and perplexing ...

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 ...

In 1945, Isaiah Berlin, the Russian-British philosopher, returned from a sojourn in the Soviet Union, whereupon he produced the modestly titled, enormously insightful memorandum, A Note on Literature ...