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  • Title Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Binding Papeback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 190
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Mississippi , Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.A.
  • Date pp. 224 Index
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 61204187
  • ISBN 9781578062201 / 1578062209
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 5.94 x 0.65 in (23.06 x 15.09 x 1.65 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion picture producers and directors -, Tarkovskii, Andrei Arsenevich
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006002212
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

From the publisher

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was one of Russia's most influential and renowned filmmakers, despite an output of only seven feature films in twenty years. Revered by such filmmaking giants as Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa, Tarkovsky is famous for his use of long takes, languid pacing, dreamlike metaphorical imagery, and meditations on spirituality and the human soul. His Andrei Roublev, Solaris, and The Mirror are considered landmarks of postwar Russian cinema.

Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews is the first English-language collection of interviews with and profiles of the filmmaker. It includes conversations originally published in French, Italian, Russian, and British periodicals. With pieces from 1962 through 1986, the collection spans the breadth of Tarkovsky's career.

In the volume, Tarkovsky candidly and articulately discusses the difficulties of making films under the censors of the Soviet Union. He explores his aesthetic ideology, filmmakers he admires, and his eventual self-exile from Russia. He talks about recurring images in his movies--water, horses, fire, snow--but adamantly refuses to divulge what they mean, as he feels that would impose his own meaning onto the audience. At times cagey and resistant to interviewers, Tarkovsky nevertheless reveals his vision and his rigorous devotion to his art.

About the author

John Gianvito is assistant professor of visual and media arts at Emerson College as well as a filmmaker and film critic. His feature films include The Flower of Pain, Address Unknown, and The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein. In 2001 Gianvito was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.