Stalker Review - Criterion Forum
Jul 14, 2017 · Picture 10/10. Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker receives a much needed North American upgrade with this new Blu-ray edition from the Criterion Collection. The film is delivered on a dual-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1. The 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation comes from a brand new 2K restoration performed by Mosfilm, scanned ...
Mirror Review - Criterion Forum
Aug 11, 2021 · Picture 9/10. Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror makes its debut into The Criterion Collection through this new double-disc Blu-ray edition, the film presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1 on the first dual-layer disc. Criterion’s 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation is sourced from a new 2K restoration performed by Mosfilm, in turn ...
888 Stalker - criterionforum.org
Jul 19, 2008 · Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself—Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.
Mirror Details - Criterion Forum
Jul 6, 2021 · A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, this sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history by Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker) is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work of cinema. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of ...
Blow-Up Review - Criterion Forum
Mar 26, 2017 · Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up makes its way back into the Criterion Collection (previously receiving a LaserDisc edition from the label) with a new Blu-ray edition that presents the film in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1 on a dual-layer disc. The 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation comes from a new 4K restoration conducted by Criterion and ...
1084 Mirror - criterionforum.org
Apr 15, 2021 · 1084 Mirror. #1 by DarkImbecile » Thu Apr 15, 2021 5:10 pm. A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, this sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history by Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker) is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work of cinema.
888 Stalker - Page 10 - criterionforum.org
Jul 26, 2024 · Re: 888 Stalker. #226 by colinr0380 » Sat Jul 22, 2017 10:58 am. This is apropos of nothing and more on the 'translation shading a film a different way' angle but this has reminded me of my favourite bit of 'misinterpretation'. When I first watched Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run in the original German langauage version with English subtitles this ...
The Best Books About Film - Page 31 - criterionforum.org
Nov 2, 2004 · I suspect this kind of slangy, popular culture-saturated and strongly British approach would have driven Tarkovsky spare, but I also think that Dyer is fully aware of what he's doing and indeed why he's doing it - because one of his recurring observations is the way that Stalker echoes aspects of his own personal experience, of which Top Gear is naturally a part.
Come and See Review - Criterion Forum
Jun 29, 2020 · This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking …
Andrei Rublev Review - Criterion Forum
Jul 3, 2008 · Immediately suppressed by the Soviets in 1966, Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic masterpiece is a sweeping medieval tale of Russia’s greatest icon painter. Too experimental, too frightening, too violent, and too politically complicated to be released officially, <I>Andrei Rublev</I> has existed only in shortened, censored versions until the Criterion Collection …