Tarkovsky - Ranked!
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2022
- In which I rank all seven of Andrei Tarkovsky's feature films, from best to worse. (Though they're all magnificent.)
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Great rankings, I've just recently gone through Tarkovsky's filmography and i genuinely could see any of his films being ranked as someone's #1...like you said, i truly believe they are all masterpieces. Mirror would prob be my favorite but they're all phenomenal, very much enjoyed your discussion on each of them. Also, i absolutely loved the motorway scene in Solaris haha.
It's the best!
Stumbled across your channel via this video and looking forward to delving in :) Great ranking too btw - we share the same top 3. Faultless, 5/5 films.
Welcome aboard, Danny!
Great video. New subscriber 👍 I’ve seen Stalker, Nostalgia, Mirror and Andrei Rublev. All fantastic. I need to check out the rest. So far I loved Stalker and Nostalgia the most. Thinking of getting the Blu ray box set. Great stuff man 😎
Thanks so much, mate. Welcome aboard! (Get that box set - it's worth it!)
I love the idea of “everyone’s Solaris”. What a great film festival that would be!
That 205 minute version is the one I saw. My first Tarkovsky. A devastating, beautiful film.
Have you seen Devils on the Doorstep?
I haven't. Looks fascinating. It also looks like it's out of print on disc over here. Is it worth checking out?
@@michaelbartlettfilm Absolutely. I don't know much about filmmaking, but the story was dark humorous, very human and devastating.
@@samurguybriyongtan146 I'll hunt it down. Thanks!
My favourite part of Solaris is the motorway scene!
Yes! It's totally the best bit. It's mesmerising on a big screen.
Really liked the video! The thing about Solaris being made by different directors is so interesting.
Wouldn't it be great? Imagine Bela Tarr's Solaris! David Cronenberg's Solaris!
@@michaelbartlettfilm Yes! Let me recommend on thing: are you into Wong Kar-Wai movies? I think it would be great a video of you ranking his works. Edward Yang, another amazing asian filmmaker with few amazing works. Great directors, you'll enjoy.
@@kanekossauro Just about to watch Yi Yi again after many years!
One of the supreme film artists, incontestably. Your favorite is also mine, 'Stalker' emerging as one of the greatest cinematic works in history, film become philosophy and philosophy transmuted through film. It's one of the movies capable of changing one's life and how one sees and understands the world.
I love the motorway sequence in 'Solaris', by the way, which also has some interesting affinity with the long, hypnotic drive through the campagna into the ever ancient, ever new city of Fellini's 'Roma', one of the highlights in the oeuvre of that particular director. Incidentally, there is at least a third screen adaptation of Lem's novel 'Solaris', a made-for-television Soviet production from 1968, directed by Boris Nirenburg with L. Ishimbaeva to a script by N. Kemarskiy, first aired in two parts. This curio crops up from time to time in various UA-cam uploads.
There remain three narrative features by Tarkovsky I haven't experienced, 'Ivan's Childhood', 'Nostalghia', and 'The Sacrifice'. Of these, I'm most curious about 'Ivan's Childhood', a film which has the distinction of having been reviewed (positively) by none less that Jean-Paul Sartre, with the clips I've seen online very striking in their visual beauty and invention. All of Tarkovsky's work I've witnessed has been beautiful, not only in their immediate impact of image and sound, but in the patience with time, the working through time, and the attention to the precious details of life that the late director always honored.
I didn't know about the TV Solaris. Thanks so much for letting me know about that - I'll hunt it down. Ivan's Childhood grows on me year by year. I'm glad Jean-Paul liked it!
Your commentary is fabulous. I would agree with your rating except for one thing- I would think Mirror is no. 1 and Stalker is no. 2. That is because, philosophical - Transcendentalism can also be felt by reading a book, but hard to read / visualise the magical movements of consciousness stringing up a life.
To be honest, I find it hard to separate them (and Andrei Roublev). Incredible films.
@@michaelbartlettfilm Andrei Roublev is totally amazing. Only seen 3 of his films, that one plus Stalker and Solaris. On only one viewing, much preferred those two to Solaris but I'm hardly an expert on this great director.
BTW ever see Rusian and Ludmila? Saw it at the same festival as the Tarkovskys. Another mind blowing film.
@@willieluncheonette5843 No, I haven't. I'll see if I can track it down. Thanks!
I am an admirer of Tarkovsky and all his movies are masterpieces, but I think that Sacrifice deserves a higher ranking. It is true that it evokes Ingmar Bergman, nothing wrong with that. The first time I watched it, it was on the big screen. However, the second time in dvd I discovered an ambiguity that escaped my attention in the first viewing. I took for granted that the world catastrophe was actually happening, and that the following day everything became normal, therefore pushing the main character to fulfil his promise of sacrificing all his belongings. However, there is a possibility that the whole Armageddon is a delirious product of the protagonist’s feverish imagination, and that’s why the following morning after making love to the gypsy lady, he spies on his family and all of them behave in a mundane way that contrasts brutally with their distress and despair the day before, as if they had forgotten the whole scare soon or, better said, the possibility of the end of the world never happened, only in the brain of the main character. I love the sense of doubt that remains after the end of the movie. I loved your analysis of his films, the best I have seen about Tarkovsky in UA-cam so far. Also, thanks for mentioning Hard To Be A God. Alexei German is another genius of Russian Cinema, unfortunately not well known in the West.
Thanks so much for your comment and your kind words, Rodrigo. I've warmed to The Sacrifice over the years and discover more in it each time I watch. I hope it came across that I appreciated the film even if I placed it seventh. I like your reading of it very much, though I still feel Tarkovsky errs more to the literal understanding of armageddon in the film and the deal made to halt it. I'll watch it again, though, with your ideas in mind.
I want to see a Croniberg Solaris!
A Peter Greenaway Solaris!
A Takashi Mike Solaris!
Denis Villeneuve Solaris!
I know, right? Just imagine a Peter Greenaway Solaris - what a fascinating film that would be!
Tarkovsky like all troubled men created deeply from within. I love his work. I would rate ' Mirror ' first because it does not reveal all of its secrets. None of his films do. Second ' Ivan's Childhood ' for its unflinching look of the method of Ivan's execution. It is honest and sums up I think the cruelty of mankind and makes us the viewer question the destruction of innocence. Klimov in ' Come and See ' and Larisa Shepitko in her great film ' The Ascent ' are important, as well as ( for me ) the greatest Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov. I met Shepitko at the London Film Festival. We talked for a long while and she was very concerned about LGBT rights in Russia, and the issue concerned her deeply. A beautiful woman in every way, and the tragedy of her death still haunts and saddens me.
I agree about Ivan's Childhood - such a beautiful, haunting film, and often overlooked. I'm envious that you got to meet Shepitko.