Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time
June 20–August 29, 2025
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) directed an impressive body of work that continues to be celebrated today for its visual power and poetic resonance. There is no better way to experience Tarkovsky’s cinema than theatrically, since scale and sound design are so essential to his films.
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Andrei Tarkovsky: Stalker (1979)
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Andrei Tarkovsky: Andrei Rublev (1966)
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Andrei Tarkovsky: Mirror (1975)
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Andrei Tarkovsky: The Sacrifice (1986)
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Andrei Tarkovsky: Solaris (1972)
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Ivan’s Childhood
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1962BAMPFA Collection
Friday, June 20 7 PMView DetailsLyrical and brutal by turns, Andrei Tarkovsky’s first feature tells of a child’s experiences during World War II. “Tarkovsky would go on to make grander, weightier, more iconic films, but it’s tough to argue he ever made a better one” (Time Out).
The Steamroller and the Violin
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1961Sunday, June 22 4:30 PMView DetailsA student film in name only, The Steamroller and the Violin holds the seeds of Andrei Tarkovsky’s future career. Paired with Voyage in Time, a visual diary of Tarkovsky and screenwriter Tonino Guerra’s travels across Lecce, Tuscany, and the Amalfi Coast while location scouting for Nostalghia.
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Thursday, June 26 7 PMView DetailsAndrei Tarkovsky’s epic, otherworldly portrait of a fifteenth-century Russian icon painter is “a superproduction gone ideologically berserk” (Village Voice). “The best arthouse film of all time” (The Guardian).
Solaris
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1972Digital Restoration
Sunday, June 29 7 PMView DetailsIn Andrei Tarkovsky’s influential 1972 masterwork, based on a famous novel by Stanisław Lem, “the alien world is one immense ocean, the ocean is a brain, and the brain may be our own” (Village Voice).
Mirror
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1975Saturday, July 5 7 PMView DetailsAndrei Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work, a collection of memories of a young boy coming of age, invented “a new language, true to the nature of film . . . life as a dream” (Ingmar Bergman).
Stalker
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1979Digital Restoration
Wednesday, July 9 7 PMView DetailsA writer, a scientist, and their “stalker” guide venture into a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. “A dense, complex, often contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness” (Slant).
Nostalghia
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, Italy, 19834K Digital Restoration
Thursday, July 17 7 PMView DetailsAndrei Tarkovsky’s breathtaking journey through the ruined but magical spaces of Tuscany follows a Russian man who feels the longing for home, closure, and the absolute that the film’s title describes. “Not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours” (J. Hoberman).
The Sacrifice
Andrei Tarkovsky
Sweden, France, 19864K Digital Restoration
Sunday, July 20 6:30 PMView DetailsA retired actor and his family find themselves on a remote Baltic island when word arrives of nuclear war in Andrei Tarkovsky’s elegiac final film. “An epic vision. . . . Spiritual mastery. . . . A work of genius” (David Robinson, The Times).
Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer
Andrei A. Tarkovsky
Italy, Russia, Sweden, 2019Friday, August 1 7 PMView DetailsAn account of the life and work of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky in his own words—his memories, his vision of art, and his reflections on the meaning of human existence—made by his son, Andrei A. Tarkovsky, in 2019.
Ivan’s Childhood
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1962BAMPFA Collection
Sunday, August 3 4 PMView DetailsLyrical and brutal by turns, Andrei Tarkovsky’s first feature tells of a child’s experiences during World War II. “Tarkovsky would go on to make grander, weightier, more iconic films, but it’s tough to argue he ever made a better one” (Time Out).
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Saturday, August 9 7 PMView DetailsAndrei Tarkovsky’s epic, otherworldly portrait of a fifteenth-century Russian icon painter is “a superproduction gone ideologically berserk” (Village Voice). “The best arthouse film of all time” (The Guardian).
Solaris
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1972Digital Restoration
Saturday, August 16 7 PMView DetailsIn Andrei Tarkovsky’s influential 1972 masterwork, based on a famous novel by Stanisław Lem, “the alien world is one immense ocean, the ocean is a brain, and the brain may be our own” (Village Voice).
Mirror
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1975Sunday, August 17 7 PMView DetailsAndrei Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work, a collection of memories of a young boy coming of age, invented “a new language, true to the nature of film . . . life as a dream” (Ingmar Bergman).
Stalker
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1979Digital Restoration
Thursday, August 21 7 PMView DetailsA writer, a scientist, and their “stalker” guide venture into a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. “A dense, complex, often contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness” (Slant).
Nostalghia
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, Italy, 19834K Digital Restoration
Sunday, August 24 4 PMView DetailsAndrei Tarkovsky’s breathtaking journey through the ruined but magical spaces of Tuscany follows a Russian man who feels the longing for home, closure, and the absolute that the film’s title describes. “Not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours” (J. Hoberman).
The Sacrifice
Andrei Tarkovsky
Sweden, France, 19864K Digital Restoration
Friday, August 29 3:30 PMView DetailsA retired actor and his family find themselves on a remote Baltic island when word arrives of nuclear war in Andrei Tarkovsky’s elegiac final film. “An epic vision. . . . Spiritual mastery. . . . A work of genius” (David Robinson, The Times).
Past Films
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