Andrei Tarkovsky

Headlines from the Web

THE BANISHMENT/IZGNANIE

9/4/2008 10:29:04 PM

Source: The Irish Times

Classics top best film poll

9/3/2008 4:24:16 AM

Source: Daily Telegraph, UK

Brit Film body seeks public movie vote

9/2/2008 10:22:12 AM

Source: Hollywood Reporter

The Forsaken Land in Film">

8/27/2008 12:28:31 AM

Source: Baltimore City Paper

Latest Articles

Béla Tarr’s epic arrives on DVD
Since its release in 1994, Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr’s 435-minute sui generis masterpiece Sátántangó has had the top critics grasping for superlatives.
By PETER KEOUGH | August 26, 2008

Kino pravda

‘Envisioning Russia’ at the MFA
Because Mosfilm, the subject of the Museum of Fine Arts’ “Envisioning Russia” retrospective, was the Soviet state production studio, any cross-section of its history lays out the entirety of Soviet film history.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | August 26, 2008

Space cases

Astronaut and Ernst Karel
Perhaps it’s something in the air, but in the last year or so it seems that Boston’s experimental outer limits has seen an analog-synthesizer renaissance.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | December 14, 2007

Perversion, introversion

Slavoj Zizek at Harvard, Bergman on Fårö
Slavoj Zizek, the fuzzy-bearded Slovenian philosopher, seems a fun guy.
By GERALD PEARY | April 03, 2007

Rain man

The lingering gaze of Béla Tarr at the HFA
Let’s take stock of Béla Tarr, the great Hungarian dyspeptic, and maybe the most famous and revered international film titan to have been so pitifully screened in American theaters that his public profile here is tantamount to an embargo.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | January 10, 2007

Movies from outer space

From the tsars to the stars at Harvard
Our new-found DVD-ness and cable-TV luxury notwithstanding, movies have always been a public medium, a spatial experience we share in the theater and a topical experience we share in the culture at large.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | November 30, 2006

Paradoxical subversions

Syrian films at the MFA
One of the paradoxes of Syrian cinema, writes Rasha Salti, the curator of the traveling “Lens on Syria: Thirty Years of Contemporary Syrian Cinema,” is that though they must submit their work to the oversight of a government that’s merciless in stamping out dissent.
By CHRIS FUJIWARA | September 08, 2006

Shaggy-dog stories

Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s 4 on the floor
A close-up of a side of beef last inspected in 1965 takes pride of place at the start of Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s bold, weird, overwrought first feature, 4 .
By PETER KEOUGH | August 07, 2006