Andreĭ Arsenʹevich Tarkovskiĭ
1) Mirror
Series
Criterion collection volume 1084
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Russian
Description
A dying man reflects on his past.
2) Mirror
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
2 DVD edition.
Language
Russian
Description
In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before the eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics on its release because of its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the director₂s most renowned and influential works, a stunning...
3) Stalker
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Russian
Description
At the center of an outlawed region called The Zone lies a mystical room altered by unnatural forces. Armed guards are the first in a series of lethal obstructions that prevent outsiders from reaching the place where fantastic powers can fulfill man's greatest desires. Only the Stalker can lead a scientist and writer through The Zone where an obstacle course of mental and physical barriers tests the limits of their endurance. At the end they must...
4) Solaris
Series
Criterion collection volume 164
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
Russian
Description
On the water planet Solaris, human space explorers encounter a unique and radical intelligence. Contact between man and this entity stretches the limits of reason and insanity, knowledge and comprehension.
5) Stalker
Series
Criterion collection volume 888
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
At the center of an outlawed region called The Zone lies a mystical room altered by unnatural forces. Armed guards are the first in a series of lethal obstructions that prevent outsiders from reaching the place where fantastic powers can fulfill one's greatest desires. Only the Stalker can lead a scientist and writer through The Zone where an obstacle course of mental and physical barriers tests the limits of their endurance. At the end they must...
6) Nostalghia
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
Traveling through Italy with an interpreter to research a composer's life, a poet haunted by visions of his home and family in Russia meets a hermit fixated on the spiritual decay of humanity who claims he knows the secret of its salvation.
7) The killers
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Melodramatic thriller based on the Hemingway story about two hit men who become curious about the life and death of the man they were hired to kill.
Series
Criterion collection volume 34
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Three-DVD special edition.
Language
Russian
Description
Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, Andrei Tarkovsky's second feature conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. The film follows Andrei Rublev as he passes through a series of poetically linked scenes, gradually emerging as a man struggling to preserve his creative and religious integrity.
9) The mirror
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
Russian
Description
Tarkovsky's looking glass is not merely cracked but shattered and we see the jagged, jumbled reflections of its shards, images of Tarkovsky's childhood mixed with fragments of his adult life--a child's wartime exile, a mother's experience with political terror, the breakup of a marriage, life in a country home--all intermingled with slow-motion dream sequences and poetic chunks of stark newsreels.
Series
Criterion collection volume 34
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Director's cut, widescreen, RSDL dual-layer ed.
Language
Russian
Description
Story of the famed 15th century icon painter who survives the cruelties of medieval Russia and creates works of art.
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
[Fullscreen presentation].
Language
English
Description
Melodramatic thrillers based on the Hemingway story about two hit men and their target, who accepts his fate as though he were already dead.
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight, but both get at the heart of Hemingway's existential classic.
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