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Off Topic • Re: What are you watching?

Stalker (1979) - Finally saw this. It's long and tedious, but It's an interesting piece of film history.
Oh, so now we can post our honest opinions about a film we just saw, regardless of who made it? Image may be NSFW.
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So, I'll assume that you know about Tarkovsky's influence on filmmmakers like Lars Von Trier, etc., but, just some personal suggestions and comments about him.

Have you seen his first feature film Ivan's Childhood (which when I saw it in a theater was titled My Name Is Ivan)? It's relatively short but his great influences, e.g., Bergman, Bunuel, Kalatozov, Kurosawa, were already in full display.

And if you haven't seen much of his work I would also recommend The Mirror, a film that I appreciated more the second time I saw it on DVD than I think I had when I first saw it in a theater. And, by then I'm sure that I had already seen an interview in which Will Self explained why it's his favorite film. Sometimes one can be nudged into a re-consideration. Image may be NSFW.
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And, regarding one of our pet peeves about many films just being too damned long, Tarkovsky to my knowledge is one of the few who when the VHS Director's Cut of Andrei Rublev came out, actually had cut it down and made it shorter than the original version I once sat through in some Art-House theater. I think that the Criterion edition contains both versions for folks crazy enough to want to compare them. Image may be NSFW.
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Leave it to a great like him to take the opportunity to re-edit one of his films to make it shorter rather than longer. It's still long, mind you, but the term "editing" should have some import.

Statistics: Posted by rp314 — Sun Jan 26, 2025 9:44 pm



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