Andrei Tarkovsky: Sculpting in Time
Andrei Tarkovsky: Sculpting in Time
August 4–30, 2018
A tribute to the revered Russian director whose visionary films infuse images of the world with metaphysical mystery.
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Nostalghia
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Stalker
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Solaris
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The Sacrifice
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Past Films
Ivan’s Childhood
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1962BAMPFA Collection Print
Saturday, August 4 6 PMView DetailsLyrical and brutal by turns, 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, 1966Thursday, August 9 7 PMView DetailsTarkovsky’s epic, otherworldly portrait of the 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, 1972Thursday, August 16 7 PMView DetailsIn Tarkovsky’s influential 1972 masterwork, based on a famous novel by Stanislaw Lem, “the alien world is one immense ocean, the ocean is a brain, and the brain may be our own” (Village Voice).
The Mirror
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1974Saturday, August 18 8 PMView DetailsTarkovsky’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, 1979BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Thursday, August 23 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, 1983Saturday, August 25 8 PMView DetailsTarkovsky’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).
Stalker
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1979BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Sunday, August 26 6:30 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).
The Sacrifice
Andrei Tarkovsky
Sweden, France, 1986Thursday, August 30 7 PMView DetailsA retired actor and his family find themselves on a remote Baltic island when word arrives of nuclear war in Tarkovsky’s elegiac final film, shot in Sweden by the great Sven Nykvist.