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Tarkovsky

/ ˈtɑkɔfskij /

noun

  1. TarkovskyAndrei19321986MRussianFILMS AND TV: director Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Especially with Tarkovsky, there’s a structure to his movies that is a kind of visual poetry.

Eggers channels the great Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky in scenes of astonishing historical detail, patient observation and hallucinatory strangeness.

One thing that has always impressed me about filmmakers like Andrei Tarkovsky and Béla Tarr — known for using slow moving, wide-angle shots — is the trust they place in their audience.

David Lawson, who was also in the collective, said its members absorbed diverse influences, including French New Wave cinema and the works of Akira Kurosawa and Andrei Tarkovsky.

I drank in Andrei Tarkovsky’s elliptical 1975 art film “Mirror” like so many vodka flights, every mysterious windswept field and liquid interlude frizzing my synapses.

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