Kenji
21Apr12
Very kind of you to say so- as a pair i was hoping they would be a useful introduction.
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Trevor L. Charles
21Mar12
I had read that Tarkovsky praised Terminator for it's portrail of man's relationship with technology and our growing distance from nature. But, was critical of the violence and bad acting.
Bajra
31Oct11
Canonalan, I dont think Nazarin "makes fun" of religion, thats too easy an interpretation. Moreover, I think it illustrates the deep conflicts and essential aspects of being a human being with a strong faith while trying to live in a (modern) society. This very spiritual strong man goes through very unique situations and experiences with some of the worst people in society, they all seem to challenge his faith and inner strength to the very bottom of his soul as we see him in the end showing a deep doubt. But that doubt in the end is not a point at religion, but showing the result of society pushing him to doubt his faith. It doesnt kill his faith, only shakens it. All those different people balance the priest to stand out as a unique, holy being. Remember the little scene with the priest and the two woman sitting together in the nature in the night and the priest is teaching them about a kind of panteistic love for nature and every little detail of the world, this scene stands alone and should speak for itself. The ending is brilliant, it reminds me of the ending of Winter Light, because people have completely different views on their meaning, for me Winter Light ends with a shinning spiritual rebirth, reflected in Bjornstrands attitude combined with Ingrid Thulin praying. The endings of Nazarin and Winter Light embodies extremely complex character development, but expressed in a simplicity out of this world.
Stephen Parker
1Apr11
What the heck did he see in City Lights? It stands alone in the top ten as seeming undeserving - at all - of his admiration.
bhikkhu
7Dec10
"praising" is a little over the top. he liked the depiction of the future in the film, but found the violence and bad acting annoying, afaik. also, I know of only one source which mentions Tarkowskij's talking about the Terminator and that's a Russian newspaper/magazine article, so I'm not sure what exactly he said about the film.
Dimitris Psachos
25May10
i think i'll become a fan of this list if only because it's interesting to have an idea of what brilliant directors like, although this can be applied to a whole lot of drectors, beyond the norms of film-schools.
Kenji
3Mar10
Yes, well i had L'Avventura and Eclipse so o.k La Notte too. But the Sokurov film was released in 1987 according to imdb; of course i presume Tarkovsky will have seen most or all of it before he died in 1986, it's one i'm unfamiliar with but from your dates was a long time in completion.
Anna Nieman
2Dec09
Great list! If you will ever come across Boris Barnet's "Okraina" ("Outskirts") do watch it. Barnet was, until recently, quite under-appreciated by film historians and fans alike. Meanwhile, some of the French New Wave directors cited him as an influence, as did Tarkovsky. Also, as far as Kurosawa goes,"Rashomon", if I remember correctly, has a scene where Toshiro Mifune's character runs through the woods that was done as one long take? That scene alone tremendously influenced Tarkovsky's approach to editing.
apursansar
16Nov09
Yes, his admiration for Parajanov and Bergman was of course mutual, and alongside these two directors did he regard Bresson, Mizoguchi, Dovzhenko and Buñuel as the greatest. Some other films Tarkovsky admired which could be added to this list would be The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir), Ordet (Carl T. Dreyer) and Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman).