Event
- Title:
- Revisiting Tarkovsky - A Poet of Cinema
- When:
- Jul 7 - Jul 14
- Where:
- The Walter Reade Theater (Lincoln Center) - New York
- Category:
- Film
Description
The Film Society of Lincoln Center Revisiting TARKOVSKY July 7-14. Eight Days. Seven Films.
One North American Premiere. NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
 | In 1987, a year after Tarkovsky's death, Dmitry Trakovsky and his parents emigrated from Russia to the United States, where he grew up feeling a special relationship to the images, sounds, and themes in Tarkovsky's films. |
The Film Society of Lincoln Center brings back the complete features of one of the most vital directors in the history of cinema, with "Revisiting Tarkovsky", an eight film series beginning on Tuesday, July 7 through Tuesday, July 14. Showcasing all seven of the auteur's landmark features, the series will also premiere Dmitry Trakovsky's provocative new documentary, Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky (Tue Jul 7, Wed Jul 8, Thu Jul 9, Tue Jul 14). Trakovsky will be present to recount his experiences with the Russian master.
Revisiting Tarkovsky opens on Tuesday, July 7 with his 1962 debut Ivan's Childhood (also showing Sat Jul 11); garnering him international praise, it earned the 30 year-old director the coveted Golden Lion at Venice. Tarkovsky's coming of age story is a spiritual drama about the violent nature of humanity and established the blueprint for his future works from his distinctive tone to visual style. Bergman says of his experience watching Ivan's Childhood:"My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle."
Based on a novel by the great Polish sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem, 1972's Solaris (Thu Jul 9 & Fri Jul 10) has become one of the most famous science-fiction films ever. Sometimes referred to as Tarkovsky's response to 2001 (the director was critical of Kubrick's fixation with technology), it uses space bound scientist Chris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) as a medium for viewers to meditate on the ideas of perception, relationships and love in what is arguably the most emotionally devastating science fiction film ever made. It was later remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh starring George Clooney.
Two years later Tarkovsky produced what is arguably his masterpiece with 1974's The Mirror (Thu Jul 9 & Fri Jul 10), a loosely autobiographical and experimental film based on his father's work, renowned poet Arseny Tarkovsky. Taking close to ten years to come to fruition, and banned by the Soviet film ministry on the eve of its Cannes Premiere, Tarkovsky's masterwork has since become an essential film in the cinematic canon.
Andrei Rublev (1966/69), screening one day only on Wednesday, July 8 (2:15pm & 8:00pm), is one of the most important modern epics - a sprawling tableau on the greatest Russian icon painter. Cut several times (there are supposedly five different versions), The Film Society will showcase the complete 205-minute cut, which premiered a mere 10 years ago.
A highlight of Revisiting Tarkovsky is 1983's Nostalghia (Sun Jul 12 & Mon Jul 13). Rarely screened in the U.S. (and out-of-print on DVD), his first film shot outside the Soviet Union stars one of Russia's most famous actors, Oleg Yankovsky, opposite frequent Bergman lead Erland Josephson. To round out his filmography, the Walter Reade will also show his last film, 1986's The Sacrifice (Mon Jul 13 & Tue Jul 14), as well as 1979's Stalker (Thu Jul 9, Sat Jul 11 & Sun Jul 12).
Film Descriptions
Andrei Rublev 1966/69; 205mTarkovsky's vast, freeform fresco on the life of Russia's greatest icon painter is one of the few true epics of modern cinema, ranging from the brutal invasion of the Tartars to naked pagan rituals while referring back to its principal theme: the life of the artist in conflict with his society. Although a major state production, Andrei Rublev was first deemed unfit for export, then released in a truncated version. Critics in the West celebrated it as a masterpiece, and years later, the film was restored to this version, Tarkovsky's original cut.
Wed Jul 8: 2:15pm and 8:00pm
Ivan's Childhood, aka My Name is Ivan
1962; 96m
Tarkovsky's award-winning debut already featured the celebrated hallmarks of his later works, from iconic visual signatures like apples and runaway horses to the overarching sense of hushed anguish. Yet this gripping tale of a soldier boy whose only recollections of peacetime are sun-blinded dreams of his mother is a manifestly spiritual drama on the violent nature of humanity. Soviet censors saw it as another "glory of the Red Army" picture. To their embarrassment, Western critics also hailed the film, perhaps leading to the censors' vigorous scrutiny and suppression of Tarkovsky's later works, particularly Andrei Rublev.
Tue Jul 7: 4:15pm and 8:30pm
Sat Jul 11: 4:00pm
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
Dmitry Trakovsky, USA, 2008; 90m
Director Dmitry Trakovsky in person!
In 1987, a year after Tarkovsky's death, Dmitry Trakovsky and his parents emigrated from Russia to the United States, where he grew up feeling a special relationship to the images, sounds, and themes in Tarkovsky's films. Here, he goes in search other lives affected by the auteur's work: collaborators Erland Josephson and Domiziana Giordano, friends Krzysztof Zanussi and Franco Terilli, an Orthodox priest, and even the director's son. Andrei Andreevich Tarkovsky. The result is a touching, highly personal and provocative record of the lingering effects of Tarkovsky on an extraordinary range of individuals.
Director Dmitry Trakovsky will introduce these screenings.
Tue Jul 7: 2:15pm and 6:15pm
Wed Jul 8: 6:10pm
Thu Jul 9: 4:15pm
Tue Jul 14: 1:15pm
The Mirror
1975; 108m
"One of the highpoints in the development of modern cinema." ~Maximilian Le Cain, Senses of Cinema
"I had made up my mind that in this film, for the first time, I would use the means of cinema to talk of all that was most precious to me, and to do so directly, without playing any kinds of tricks." ~Andrei Tarkovsky
For many, The Mirror is Tarkovsky's masterpiece-his most ambitious and most emotionally wrenching film. The plot concerns a dying man reflecting on his life during and after World War II, yet the film is concerned less with the facts of the memories than their textures: the precise feelings experienced at these moments. A collage of imagery-including dramatic sequences, personal memories, newsreels, dreams, and purely abstract passages-liberally quotes from the poetry of Tarkovsky's father Arseny. In a double role as the narrator's estranged wife and his mother, Margarita Terekhova is simply amazing.
Thu Jul 9: 9:15pm
Fri Jul 10: 1:00pm and 6:20pm
Nostalghia
1983; 126m
The Russian word "nostalghia" carries a stronger, more forceful meaning than its English cognate, implying the pain of separation from one's roots. Tarkovsky's first film shot outside of Russia offers several variations on this theme, the most essential in his portrait of a world without meaning: Gorchakov (wonderful Russian actor Oleg Yankovskiy) is on a research trip in Italy, where the freedom he senses around him has meant a denial of culture and tradition. A work of sumptuous beauty, Nostalghia is a cry of despair, but can a world that produces such art really be beyond saving? Print courtesy of the RAI Corporation.
Sun Jul 12: 6:00pm
Mon Jul 13: 3:45pm and 9:00pm
The Sacrifice
1986; 145m
Dedicated "with hope and confidence" to his son, who accepted the Cannes Grand Jury Prize on behalf of the already-dying Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice considers a man who, at the start of a nuclear war, sells his soul to God in return for a world made safe for his children. This is a rare look at the peerless, final cinematic legacy of a director who, in the words of one critic, offered in his works "a nobility of spirit rare in contemporary art and almost without parallel in contemporary cinema."
Mon Jul 13: 1:00pm and 6:15pm
Tue Jul 14: 3:15pm
Solaris
1972; 165m
In possibly the most emotionally devastating science fiction film ever made, scientist Chris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) is sent to a space station whose inhabitants have been attempting to make contact with the strange title planet. He's quickly convinced that the crew has gone mad, until he sees his own startling apparitions. Often described as a Soviet response to 2001, Solaris is based on a novel by the great Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, later shot in Hollywood by Steven Soderbergh, with George Clooney.
Thu Jul 9: 1:00pm
Fri Jul 10: 3:15pm and 8:30pm
Stalker
1979; 161m
Twenty years ago, a falling object decimated a provincial Russian town, and those who later went near the crash site disappeared. Now known as The Zone, access is strictly prohibited, but outsiders can still get in: just hire a stalker. Inside The Zone is The Room, within which secret wishes can be granted. Based on a story by the Strugatsky brothers, Stalker is a provocative philosophical fable about the limits of knowledge-personal, scientific, spiritual, and otherwise-conjured up within an extraordinary visual palette.
Thu Jul 9: 6:15pm
Sat Jul 11: 1:00pm
Sun Jul 12: 8:30pm
Revisiting Tarkovsky opens on Tuesday, July 7 with his 1962 debut Ivan's Childhood (also showing Sat Jul 11); garnering him international praise, it earned the 30 year-old director the coveted Golden Lion at Venice. Tarkovsky's coming of age story is a spiritual drama about the violent nature of humanity and established the blueprint for his future works from his distinctive tone to visual style. Bergman says of his experience watching Ivan's Childhood:"My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle."
Based on a novel by the great Polish sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem, 1972's Solaris (Thu Jul 9 & Fri Jul 10) has become one of the most famous science-fiction films ever. Sometimes referred to as Tarkovsky's response to 2001 (the director was critical of Kubrick's fixation with technology), it uses space bound scientist Chris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) as a medium for viewers to meditate on the ideas of perception, relationships and love in what is arguably the most emotionally devastating science fiction film ever made. It was later remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh starring George Clooney.
Two years later Tarkovsky produced what is arguably his masterpiece with 1974's The Mirror (Thu Jul 9 & Fri Jul 10), a loosely autobiographical and experimental film based on his father's work, renowned poet Arseny Tarkovsky. Taking close to ten years to come to fruition, and banned by the Soviet film ministry on the eve of its Cannes Premiere, Tarkovsky's masterwork has since become an essential film in the cinematic canon.
Andrei Rublev (1966/69), screening one day only on Wednesday, July 8 (2:15pm & 8:00pm), is one of the most important modern epics - a sprawling tableau on the greatest Russian icon painter. Cut several times (there are supposedly five different versions), The Film Society will showcase the complete 205-minute cut, which premiered a mere 10 years ago.
A highlight of Revisiting Tarkovsky is 1983's Nostalghia (Sun Jul 12 & Mon Jul 13). Rarely screened in the U.S. (and out-of-print on DVD), his first film shot outside the Soviet Union stars one of Russia's most famous actors, Oleg Yankovsky, opposite frequent Bergman lead Erland Josephson. To round out his filmography, the Walter Reade will also show his last film, 1986's The Sacrifice (Mon Jul 13 & Tue Jul 14), as well as 1979's Stalker (Thu Jul 9, Sat Jul 11 & Sun Jul 12).
Film Descriptions
Andrei Rublev 1966/69; 205mTarkovsky's vast, freeform fresco on the life of Russia's greatest icon painter is one of the few true epics of modern cinema, ranging from the brutal invasion of the Tartars to naked pagan rituals while referring back to its principal theme: the life of the artist in conflict with his society. Although a major state production, Andrei Rublev was first deemed unfit for export, then released in a truncated version. Critics in the West celebrated it as a masterpiece, and years later, the film was restored to this version, Tarkovsky's original cut.
Wed Jul 8: 2:15pm and 8:00pm
Ivan's Childhood, aka My Name is Ivan
1962; 96m
Tarkovsky's award-winning debut already featured the celebrated hallmarks of his later works, from iconic visual signatures like apples and runaway horses to the overarching sense of hushed anguish. Yet this gripping tale of a soldier boy whose only recollections of peacetime are sun-blinded dreams of his mother is a manifestly spiritual drama on the violent nature of humanity. Soviet censors saw it as another "glory of the Red Army" picture. To their embarrassment, Western critics also hailed the film, perhaps leading to the censors' vigorous scrutiny and suppression of Tarkovsky's later works, particularly Andrei Rublev.
Tue Jul 7: 4:15pm and 8:30pm
Sat Jul 11: 4:00pm
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
Dmitry Trakovsky, USA, 2008; 90m
Director Dmitry Trakovsky in person!
In 1987, a year after Tarkovsky's death, Dmitry Trakovsky and his parents emigrated from Russia to the United States, where he grew up feeling a special relationship to the images, sounds, and themes in Tarkovsky's films. Here, he goes in search other lives affected by the auteur's work: collaborators Erland Josephson and Domiziana Giordano, friends Krzysztof Zanussi and Franco Terilli, an Orthodox priest, and even the director's son. Andrei Andreevich Tarkovsky. The result is a touching, highly personal and provocative record of the lingering effects of Tarkovsky on an extraordinary range of individuals.
Director Dmitry Trakovsky will introduce these screenings.
Tue Jul 7: 2:15pm and 6:15pm
Wed Jul 8: 6:10pm
Thu Jul 9: 4:15pm
Tue Jul 14: 1:15pm
The Mirror
1975; 108m
"One of the highpoints in the development of modern cinema." ~Maximilian Le Cain, Senses of Cinema
"I had made up my mind that in this film, for the first time, I would use the means of cinema to talk of all that was most precious to me, and to do so directly, without playing any kinds of tricks." ~Andrei Tarkovsky
For many, The Mirror is Tarkovsky's masterpiece-his most ambitious and most emotionally wrenching film. The plot concerns a dying man reflecting on his life during and after World War II, yet the film is concerned less with the facts of the memories than their textures: the precise feelings experienced at these moments. A collage of imagery-including dramatic sequences, personal memories, newsreels, dreams, and purely abstract passages-liberally quotes from the poetry of Tarkovsky's father Arseny. In a double role as the narrator's estranged wife and his mother, Margarita Terekhova is simply amazing.
Thu Jul 9: 9:15pm
Fri Jul 10: 1:00pm and 6:20pm
Nostalghia
1983; 126m
The Russian word "nostalghia" carries a stronger, more forceful meaning than its English cognate, implying the pain of separation from one's roots. Tarkovsky's first film shot outside of Russia offers several variations on this theme, the most essential in his portrait of a world without meaning: Gorchakov (wonderful Russian actor Oleg Yankovskiy) is on a research trip in Italy, where the freedom he senses around him has meant a denial of culture and tradition. A work of sumptuous beauty, Nostalghia is a cry of despair, but can a world that produces such art really be beyond saving? Print courtesy of the RAI Corporation.
Sun Jul 12: 6:00pm
Mon Jul 13: 3:45pm and 9:00pm
The Sacrifice
1986; 145m
Dedicated "with hope and confidence" to his son, who accepted the Cannes Grand Jury Prize on behalf of the already-dying Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice considers a man who, at the start of a nuclear war, sells his soul to God in return for a world made safe for his children. This is a rare look at the peerless, final cinematic legacy of a director who, in the words of one critic, offered in his works "a nobility of spirit rare in contemporary art and almost without parallel in contemporary cinema."
Mon Jul 13: 1:00pm and 6:15pm
Tue Jul 14: 3:15pm
Solaris
1972; 165m
In possibly the most emotionally devastating science fiction film ever made, scientist Chris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) is sent to a space station whose inhabitants have been attempting to make contact with the strange title planet. He's quickly convinced that the crew has gone mad, until he sees his own startling apparitions. Often described as a Soviet response to 2001, Solaris is based on a novel by the great Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, later shot in Hollywood by Steven Soderbergh, with George Clooney.
Thu Jul 9: 1:00pm
Fri Jul 10: 3:15pm and 8:30pm
Stalker
1979; 161m
Twenty years ago, a falling object decimated a provincial Russian town, and those who later went near the crash site disappeared. Now known as The Zone, access is strictly prohibited, but outsiders can still get in: just hire a stalker. Inside The Zone is The Room, within which secret wishes can be granted. Based on a story by the Strugatsky brothers, Stalker is a provocative philosophical fable about the limits of knowledge-personal, scientific, spiritual, and otherwise-conjured up within an extraordinary visual palette.
Thu Jul 9: 6:15pm
Sat Jul 11: 1:00pm
Sun Jul 12: 8:30pm
Tuesday, July 7
2:15 Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
4:15 Ivan's Childhood
6:15 Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
8:30 Ivan's Childhood
Wednesday, July 8
2:15 Andrei Rublev
6:10 Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
8:00 Andrei Rublev
Thursday, July 9
1:00 Solaris
4:15 Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
6:15 Stalker
9:15 The Mirror
Friday, July 10
1:00 The Mirror
3:15 Solaris
6:20 The Mirror
8:30 Solaris
Saturday, July 11
1:00 Stalker
4:00 Ivan's Childhood
Sunday, July 12
6:00 Nostalghia
8:30 Stalker
Monday, July 13
1:00 The Sacrifice
3:45 Nostalghia
6:15 The Sacrifice
9:00 Nostalghia
Tuesday, July 14
1:15 Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
3:15 The Sacrifice
all times p.m.
Single Screening Tickets: $7 members/students/child - $8 senior - $11 public
Series Pass ($40 public/$30 member): admits one person to five titles in the series; only available for purchase at the box office ~ subject to availability.
Venue
- Venue:
- The Walter Reade Theater (Lincoln Center) - Website
- Street:
- 165 W. 65th Street
- ZIP:
- 10023
- City:
- New York
- State:
- NY
Venue Info
Location and Directions:
The Film Society of Lincoln Center - Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th Street, upper level - between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave.
- Subways: 1 to 66th Street Lincoln Center
- Buses: M5 M7 M104
- More options available at nearby Columbus Circle.
Walk west on 65th Street for access to the upper level. Use the new public staircase on the north side of 65th Street near the mid-block crossing, the elevator in the Juilliard School or the one directly beneath the theater (look for the FILM banner on 65th Street).
Automated Information Line: 212 875 5600
Customer Service Helpline: 212 875 5367
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