FILMS ADMIRED BY TARKOVSKY

Andrei Tarkovsky is high in the Mubi pantheon; all 7 of his feature films are rated at 8.5 or more! Click on Read More and the links. Thanks to all who have made this a popular list.

It’s composed of films picked in a top 10 by Tarkovsky in 1972 (#1-10 here) and others mentioned with admiration by him, in his book Sculpting in Time and elsewhere. I’m not aware which of all the Mizoguchi and Chaplin films not listed here he specifically admired, but he rated those directors highly (Mizoguchi is praised as a soaring soul and genius), as he did Bresson, Bunuel and Renoir. Of course he saw film as a great serious art, and...