The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
|---|---|
| Starring: | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Directors: | Chris Marker, Alexander Sokurov, Tonino Guerra |
| Genres: | Documentary - Entertainment, World Cinema - Russian |
| Studio: | FUSION MEDIA |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 3 hours 25 minutes |
|---|---|
| Rental release: | Currently unavailable |
| Main languages: | Russian |
| Subtitles: | English |
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Not as good as expected
By ThomasKus (147 reviews) from Gloucester , 14 Oct 2007[Highly rated reviewer]
Andrei Tarkovsky is arguably the most inluential Russian director and the prospect of learning more about his life and work was the main reason why I selected this title. The three documentaries are distributed on two DVDs which count as one selection. Only 'A Day in the Life of Tarkovsky' is actually watchable and useful but the title is (fortunately) misleading as it describes his life and films rather than just potraying one singel day of his work. The other two documentaries are frankly so slow and boring that I found them pretty much unwatchable and ended up fast forwarding after 10-15 min of each. I may have missed something important but I doubt it and unless you are a die hard Tarkvsky I think they are a waste of time.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(2)A must for all Tarkovsky lovers
By Savage (632 reviews) from London, England , 29 Dec 2007Three documentaries about perhaps the greatest film director ever - certainly the most austere and the most 'artistic' - two of which are actually quite hard work. Taking them in chronological order, we have Tarkovsky's own 'Tempo in viaggio', made with his screenwriting parter, the equally legendary Tonino Guerra, which is a record of their relationship and some of Tarkovsky's thoughts while making 'Nostalghia'. It is slow and ruminative and particularly interesting for the way it delineates Tarkovsky's working methods, especially regarding the things he leaves out. After that is 'Moscow elegy', a memorial to the great man made by Alexander Sokurov, perhaps the nearest thing cinema has to an inheritor of his mantle. This stretches very thin, over eighty minutes, using a lot of material from both the other documentaries on these discs, and only springs to life during the ruminations on Tarkovsky's life. You can see Sokurov attempting to recreate the great man's style, but it's too self-conscious to work. Chris Marker's 'One day...', however, is a masterpiece: one great film-maker explicating another, moving, fascinating and superbly contrasting the films with their creator, as, tragically, he lays dying.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Not as good as expected
By ThomasKus (147 reviews) from Gloucester , 14 Oct 2007Andrei Tarkovsky is arguably the most inluential Russian director and the prospect of learning more about his life and work was the main reason why I selected this title. The three documentaries are distributed on two DVDs which count as one selection. Only 'A Day in the Life of Tarkovsky' is actually watchable and useful but the title is (fortunately) misleading as it describes his life and films rather than just potraying one singel day of his work. The other two documentaries are frankly so slow and boring that I found them pretty much unwatchable and ended up fast forwarding after 10-15 min of each. I may have missed something important but I doubt it and unless you are a die hard Tarkvsky I think they are a waste of time.- Was this review helpful to you?
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