Whether you're a fan of Kubrick, Bergman, David Lynch or Michael Bay, we all have to admit that Tarkovsky, with his camera, has penetrated more sad and beautiful truths about the human condition than ANY director, living or dead.
I've sat and watched Zerkalo and Andrei Rublev with people of many different colors, nationalities and creeds, and all of them walked away deeply affected. I can't say that about many other directors or films.
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This is the "remastered" soundtrack from RUSCICO, which is nothing like the original soundtrack (which is also on their DVD). The fire is barely audible and there is no cuckoo clock sound in the original. They also cut out the sound of the swinging pail by the well. The sound here is just awful - Tarkovsky would have never done anything like this. He was subtle, not overbearing.
That's funny. I've never actually seen this movie before (just came over from a related McCabe & Mrs. Miller clip). As the camera was panning past the boy and towards the woman in the field I was split 50/50 on whether it was a brushfire or somebody bringing in the herd.
I've heard of Tarkovsky before but only now have I bothered to watch something of his. I have no idea what is going on in the scene but for some reason it made me grip and mouth in fear. So intense.
So... thank God Tarkovsky is dead, because I feel like an Ass now! I researched the film and it turns out that the original film was destroyed and had to be completely redone on a much lower budget. There was probably not enough funding to start deleting scenes and replacing them, especially when the lighting was being perfected like this and shots (on average) are really long and slow. Either way the film among the Greatest! I wonder just how different the original was? Guess we'll never know!
So... thank God Tarkovsky is dead, because I feel like an Ass now! I researched the film and it turns out that the original film was destroyed and had to be completely redone on a much lower budget. There was probably not enough funding to start deleting scenes and replacing them, especially when the lighting was being perfected like this and shots (on average) are really long and slow. Either way the film among the Greatest! I wonder just how different the original was? Guess we'll never know!
If you guys don't know what I'm talking about, watch the film again and look for it. There are many times when it is obviously required that the actor in the scene looks into the camera and then there are the painfully obvious fuck ups! I wonder why I'm the first person on here to point that out. I think you all may be blinded by your love for this film. I am nearly blind, but I must have seen a light somewhere.
This film is brilliant and way ahead of its time but ONE thing that bothers this SHIT out of me is how some of the actors occasionally made eye contact with the camera when they obviously should not have. I will never understand why those scenes were not edited out. I just try to blink longer than normal when I know those scenes are coming. I'm lying to myself so that I don't think negative thoughts about this movie. :/
The man does not affect my judgement of the Art and the Art does not affect my judgement of the man. My real problem is the horse. I wish I could watch Andrey Rublev to the end but my stomach did not let me. (Not the rest) Actually I did watch it in the past when I did not notice the horse. I need to watch Nattvardsgesterna(Swedish? Who?The Night Porter?), La Passion... My take on The Sacrifice is totally unconventional(I guess).Trying to write about it but lazy. Love Jarman(Wittgenstein).
I just finished watching this film for the first time and this scene was definitely one of the most poignant and I feel as if it will be etched in my memory forever.
There's one comment of an idiot: "Best one-shot Sequence ever? Well, its up there, thats for sure. But watch the backwards steadycam sequence on the beach from "Atonement" [9 minutes] and tell me that doesn't beat this"... I saw that scene and it's just typical Hollywood scene and a digital bull shit, and how can one compare that with the tape camera masterpiece, where even sound feels like music.
@marcolopolis555 True. Both were cinematic visionaries. There is a dark poetry in all Tarkovsky 'films'. It needs to be cold and /or raining to fully get into them. Hitchcock on the other hand, made accessible films..or 'movies' for smart people. Both men thought through every element of every frame of every shot obsessively.
Touch of Evil? Touch of Boredom, I'd say. In ToE you can easily think of replacing Welles shot with other, less pretentional and overthetop, and more telling about the story, In case of Tarkovsky, you can't do better (and more beautiful).
Welles was just a card-trick player. Tarkovsky was the real magician.
@Wacek4444 Touch of Evil is form and substance. Zerkalo only form, and many times senseless form. It doesn't matter if it is a stream of consciousness. To understand Tarkovskij greatness u should appreciate Andreij Rubliov, one of my top three movies ever.
@vinciano But he didn't have to kill that horse the way he did. More barbaric than anything he wanted to show. No, no, no special effects. Himself admitted unapologetically. Bless his soul. I promised no to watch any more of his films. But that would mean the end of cinema for me? Right now Sacrifice is on my top 3, but that can change. With Dead Man and The Seventh Seal. But not even close to ANY Tarkovski. Just for variety.
@openmindset Well, i'm sorry for the horse killing but we are judging his Art, not the man Tarkovsky. Otherwise we should not appreciate or watch Cavaraggio masterful works because he was a murderer. My top three movies are Andreij Rubliov, Nattvardsgasterna and, above all, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc.
@vincianoThe man does not affect my judgement of the Art and the Art does not affect my judgement of the man. My real problem is the horse. I wish I could watch Andrey Rublev to the end but my stomach did not let me. (Not the rest) Actually I did watch it in the past when I did not notice the horse. I need to watch Nattvardsgesterna(Swedish? Who?The Night Porter?), La Passion... My take on The Sacrifice is totally unconventional(I guess).Trying to write but lazy. Love Jarman(Wittgenstein).
@openmindset You really ought to watch to the end of AndreiRublev because the final chapter and epilogue are by far the best parts. After all the horror and violence and despair that had gone before, the finale suddenly becomes a driving narrative that ends triumphantly with as much power as any film I have ever seen--then the sudden burst of color as Rublev's icons are shown at last.
The Nattwhateva is Bergman's Winter Light. No idea why dude calls it that when everyone else uses English title
@MyName42 Yes! The film has so much despair and violence and Rublev thinks there is no point in creating anything in such a vile world, and then he sees the boy who is able to pull off, courageously, the making of that bell. That boy's spirit inspires Rublev and gives him hope again. And you are so right---it is glorious when the icons are then shown in full color at the end. That movie is about everything in life---being down and despondent, losing hope and then finding it somewhere unexpected
I do not know about nothing regarding sequences in films, so I would appreciate if somebody could explain to me, why this video has been labeled as the 'best ever'.
@japonfeudal A sequence shot is a long take, meaning, there are no cuts. I don't think this one is the "best ever", but it's a good shot. Sequence shots can be complicated because they require sophisticated camera movements and the timing must be right.
@kevinptaylor Thank you very much for taking some of your time and explain this to me, I was unable to understand why this particular secuence is regarded as a very fine one. Now I can dig deeper in order to understand the other aspects but for sure is a very good starting point for me. Thanks again! :-)
Love Tarkovsky although my favorite scene of his is the chapel scene from Nostalghia. His movies are so dear to me and my life would not be the same had they not existed.
@rigsabald im not saying tarkovsky is dead im saying the authors mystical patriarchal hegemony over the "meaning" or "purpose" of a work is dead go suck a fuck
That's just beautiful. Tarkovsky really knew how to do those long shots. I rember getting bored form in in Stalker, but after seeing it through, I realized the effect. It was almost dream-like, but you still felt close and present.
i've heard of this slow tempo acoustic instrumental trio with a sad and expressive violin that goes well with Tarkovsky. it's true, search Youtube for "Radium Karmara"
Wow, this shot is extremely well done. I love this sequence shots and this one delivered the needed environmental detail and fluid movement perfectly.
I can't help but feel some inspiration in Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men sequence shots.
The Mirror is one of the most inaccessible movies, a motion picture that never had a theatrical release; there is no plot and narrative time jumps all over the place; initially refused by the Soviet film board for not making sense; it takes several viewings to get a hold on it but it is a classic about lost innocence and emotional abandonment.
swansong200 what do you mean not ass god as scorssese or kurosawa? Its just a diffrent style of camera work specific for russian film makers.Long beautifull uninterupted shots that almost resemble a painting.
@swansong200 Scorcese is different. All big directors and DOP's are triggered, inspired and motivated by Tarkovsky. In fact, if he was giving lectures, big names in film-industry came to hear his word...... this man is an icon and many times used as example by big directors....
extrordinarily enough, Tarkovsky was mostly obsessed with composition than the actual photographic side but his movies are the most beautifully filmed I have ever seen, there is a book of his polaroids available from Thames and Hudson. My favourite Director.
Four more screenings of the award-winning doc 'Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky' in LA: Monica 4-Plex, Santa Monica (Feb. 6,7 at 11AM) and Playhouse 7, Pasadena (Feb. 6,7 at 11AM). See you there!
Best one-shot Sequence ever? Well, its up there, thats for sure. But watch the backwards steadycam sequence on the beach from "Atonement" [9 minutes] and tell me that doesn't beat this.
Clearly, you haven't seen "Russian Ark", "Liberation" or "War and Peace" (Bondarchuk) yet...they have even more bombastic scenes than "Atonement". But this scene is totally different from those shots, its a big metaphor, the main verse of a poem, movie poetry.
Obviously the difference between existentialism and transcendentalism is lost on some. You're comparing the third dimension to the fourth. The full weight of Tarkovsky can not be fathomed unless you realize it's rife with enigmatic symbolism. Context, context, context. Christ, you're comparing a scene from the Mirror with that of a sappy, Jane Austenesque flick?! In the words of John McEnroe, you can not be serious!
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You must be a punk kid that doesn't understand shit. Your gayness will get your shit pushed in someday in prison, where you will undoubtedly end up. You can't spell for shit, either.
agreed. this is an astounding shot. but as amazing as it is, it needs to be seen in context of the film to really grasp its fullness (and of course to be seen on the big screen).
It's like taking a fragment of a Bach cantata. brilliant, yes, but not very meaningful unless you have the rest of it as well.
I couldn't speak or move after I watched this entire film for the first time. It was cinema used as a language I had never experienced before. You often see this film ranked on lists of the greatest films ever made, like on the TSPDT Top 1000, but I wouldn't even know how to do that. 'The Mirror' is something so strikingly different from everything I've ever seen it defies categorization.
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I suppose that you felt that your response was clever at the time of its composition... well, anyhow, I was just offering my opinion, not trying to dismiss your perceptions. the only reason I feel the way I do about art, is that I create it as well. I know the process and the product.
One thing I know: without questioning, one can only concede.
Mind you, understanding art is not the privelage from its makers. You don't have to be a filmmaker to understand and therefore judge the quality of a film. In fact it can be refressing for an artist to get critict's from a well minded objective outsider. Interaction in art always was and will be a must as you will know. Its the quality of interaction what makes a work good or bad. Of coarse the kind of public matters.
I love this shot and I also absolutely love the "Dream" shot in "Stalker," Tarkovsky's Camera movements are beyond genius and his sound design adds so much to his films its indescribable
In my opinion film genius of this time is based on the insufficient range of special effects, understanding of human nature, and philosphical thoughts...in Eastern Europe during communism, this kind of high cinema type was strong because matter was more important than western impact and i'm very thankfull to persons like Tarkovsky or Lem for this kind of art.
@Sallieri1 I dont even think Tarkovsky would have like the special effects if he was alive today. Even back then, there was special effects not digital but on set, he refuse them. IM sure that he would have hated the red cam and all that new school.. If he refused Eisenstein mode of editing, that's why he call it, "time Sculpting.." A true genius...
I agree with you in the first part of your argument. But I think you're mistaken when you say that communism atributed more importance to philosophical thoughts. In fact, Tarkovsky's movies were very underestimated in his homeland for supposedly being "not understandable" by the common people. That led to Tarkovksy's making a movie every 5 or 6 years, because he depended on the state's support for working, and tha'ts why he made so very little films. Regards
1) cinema were always full when Tarkovsky's films were to be shown. Quite often there were people who couldn't get in because there were no more place to sit.
2) he wasn't underestimated. Common people often wrote to Tarkovsky showing him great appreciation. Not to mention students, intelectuals etc who loved his cinema.
His movies had only few copies in distribution because he refused to cooperate with regime in order to make commie movies.
@Wacek4444 you must be no more than 10 years old, the time when people started discovering Tarkovski (except for Solaris). A recent retrospective in LA was full (everybody got in) because you will not see those films on a big screen in at least another 10 years. I hope to be alive. Intelectuals don't count. They don't get it. And they don,t watch the films. They watch their intelects wathing the film.
3)He was making 1 film in 7 yrs because he didn't want to make regime films like most of the other USSR directors. He wanted to make films his way, and he did.
Where would this scene end up without the barking dog. He shouts the depths to be revealed behind our eyes. Tarkovski certainly is not for flatminders. Immaculate scene !
The dog indeed creates a certain unease in the air. It's echo finds a resonance in our thoughts of fear. Thats what good film is all about. Having a part in it.
Tarkovsky, like the ancient painters of icons, reveals to the eyes of men the very face of God, the birth of the spirit through in the material world.
Arrogance? Wannabe Intellectuals? I am 17 and The Mirror by Tarkovsky (or any other movie by Tarkovsky for that matter) is highly more entertaining than some of the garbage that is being argued.. Morgan Freeman? You gotta be kidding me.
i totally understand the disgust towards the phoney, pretentious pseudo-intellectuals. But Tarkovsky does not fit into this category. If it were true then he wouldn't be so cherished in the film community today. Critics with PhD's would dismiss him, but they don't. People have every right to feel bored...BUT art isn't always entertaining. Learning isn't always fun. His most accessible film is Ivan's Childhood...which I highly recommend.
This is very beautiful but also too slow. No action, no car chase, drama, tension or anything. Just bunch of depressing russians staring at a house on fire. I don´t understand...I mean, I am very knowledgeable in filmmaking but come on! This is like a boring Tolstoy play...
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I´m with you Danelleya. This is boring. All those wannabe intellectuals are claiming to admire this piece of slowmoving painting because they don´t dare to admit that any movie with Morgan Freeman is more entertaining than this.
I saw the movie in VHS, some 15 years ago. I don't really remember the scene, but then I don't remember anything outrageous about the sound... I very much doubt it was there. It just doesn't sound Tarkovsky. The man had, if anything, a great sense for sound.
"The perfect sound to surprise in the middle of a contemplative silence."
Check this early comment:
JanPB (11 months ago)
It's worth noting that the sound in this clip is _incorrect_ - it was remixed by the DVD publisher (RusCiCo) few years ago. The sound of the cuckoo clock, for example, is not at all in the original (also, the cuckoo is calling out the wrong time!). Lots of nonexistent bird sounds were also added. (...) For the correct sound, switch to the mono soundtrack.
"watch Tarkovsky. His films come the closest to portraying the psychological nature of human dreams and memories than any other."
Perhaps the mistake is to think that because it portrays your (and mine) psychological nature, it portrays *human* nature in general. I strongly suspect it doesn't. It's like the Cpt Lisa Nowak the wacko astronaut saying that reaching for the stars is what makes us human. That behavior doesn't define humans. It defines Kshatriyas.
Yeah its like all other movies compared to Tarkovsky's aren't in the same league, they've been reduced to 1 1/2 long sitcoms.... Tarkovsky movies are like watching PERFECTION manifested..
Does anyone have a clue how they did the trick with the falling bottle? There must be some kind of strings attached or so? I'd be really glad to know!!
GLOIKO!
guitaHer099 9 months ago
name of the moview pls
. its great shot ,like lot
lightsweep 9 months ago
@lightsweep it's "zerkalo" or "mirror"
Taevi 9 months ago
wow
jflomax 9 months ago
I have always loved this, wonderful.
jeffreysbernard 9 months ago
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Whether you're a fan of Kubrick, Bergman, David Lynch or Michael Bay, we all have to admit that Tarkovsky, with his camera, has penetrated more sad and beautiful truths about the human condition than ANY director, living or dead.
I've sat and watched Zerkalo and Andrei Rublev with people of many different colors, nationalities and creeds, and all of them walked away deeply affected. I can't say that about many other directors or films.
tyleredge8181 10 months ago
Hey, if anyone would spare a couple of mins to watch my video called Catharsis and perhaps leave some feedback, that'd be great because it was an experimental piece and I'd love to know what people thought of it! And I'm not trying to spam, I'm just interested to see what people think. Thanks! ;)
PatrickBellFilm 10 months ago
Unbelievable, how every detail is just in the right place.
Foodfast123 11 months ago
Venerdi Forno, the new movie by Chad Cortez, is about all of that stuff too
361theatreproject 11 months ago
Genial!!!!
cucuoo9 11 months ago
This is quite nice. However it could be improved with using the Mindtage.
Mindtage 1 year ago
The burning house scene in the Sacrifice is pretty crazy too.
bobunitone 1 year ago
This is the "remastered" soundtrack from RUSCICO, which is nothing like the original soundtrack (which is also on their DVD). The fire is barely audible and there is no cuckoo clock sound in the original. They also cut out the sound of the swinging pail by the well. The sound here is just awful - Tarkovsky would have never done anything like this. He was subtle, not overbearing.
kellnola 1 year ago
@kellnola
That's funny. I've never actually seen this movie before (just came over from a related McCabe & Mrs. Miller clip). As the camera was panning past the boy and towards the woman in the field I was split 50/50 on whether it was a brushfire or somebody bringing in the herd.
wackywankavator 1 year ago
"ok guys we're losing the light AND the fire so ONE TAKE PLEASE"
dungeondragon7 1 year ago 21
I've heard of Tarkovsky before but only now have I bothered to watch something of his. I have no idea what is going on in the scene but for some reason it made me grip and mouth in fear. So intense.
cassiusitsover 1 year ago 8
@cassiusitsover some very psichiatric effect i discovered either wile waching his movies.
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josecartero2012 1 year ago 3
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So... thank God Tarkovsky is dead, because I feel like an Ass now! I researched the film and it turns out that the original film was destroyed and had to be completely redone on a much lower budget. There was probably not enough funding to start deleting scenes and replacing them, especially when the lighting was being perfected like this and shots (on average) are really long and slow. Either way the film among the Greatest! I wonder just how different the original was? Guess we'll never know!
mnitetoker33 1 year ago
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So... thank God Tarkovsky is dead, because I feel like an Ass now! I researched the film and it turns out that the original film was destroyed and had to be completely redone on a much lower budget. There was probably not enough funding to start deleting scenes and replacing them, especially when the lighting was being perfected like this and shots (on average) are really long and slow. Either way the film among the Greatest! I wonder just how different the original was? Guess we'll never know!
mnitetoker33 1 year ago
If you guys don't know what I'm talking about, watch the film again and look for it. There are many times when it is obviously required that the actor in the scene looks into the camera and then there are the painfully obvious fuck ups! I wonder why I'm the first person on here to point that out. I think you all may be blinded by your love for this film. I am nearly blind, but I must have seen a light somewhere.
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josecartero2012 1 year ago
@mnitetoker33 They are not fuck ups, and you are not the first to notice.
cinesimonj 1 year ago
This film is brilliant and way ahead of its time but ONE thing that bothers this SHIT out of me is how some of the actors occasionally made eye contact with the camera when they obviously should not have. I will never understand why those scenes were not edited out. I just try to blink longer than normal when I know those scenes are coming. I'm lying to myself so that I don't think negative thoughts about this movie. :/
mnitetoker33 1 year ago
Birdsong (El Cant dels Ocells ) (2008) Catalan
by:Alberto Serra
NYT review by A.O.Scott
The only one I could watch after tarkovski
openmindset 1 year ago
@openmindset do you hear an echo?
ZwolfZki 1 year ago
@ZwolfZki Pretty clear. Do you?
openmindset 1 year ago
@ZwolfZkiPretty clear. Do you?
openmindset 1 year ago
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@openmindset do you hear an echo?
ZwolfZki 1 year ago
Birdsong (El Cant dels Ocells ) 2008
review on NYT bt A.O. Scott
The only one I could watch after tarkovski
openmindset 1 year ago
The man does not affect my judgement of the Art and the Art does not affect my judgement of the man. My real problem is the horse. I wish I could watch Andrey Rublev to the end but my stomach did not let me. (Not the rest) Actually I did watch it in the past when I did not notice the horse. I need to watch Nattvardsgesterna(Swedish? Who?The Night Porter?), La Passion... My take on The Sacrifice is totally unconventional(I guess).Trying to write about it but lazy. Love Jarman(Wittgenstein).
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MrCrispian 1 year ago
I just finished watching this film for the first time and this scene was definitely one of the most poignant and I feel as if it will be etched in my memory forever.
NWG92 1 year ago
one of the best movies ever!!!!
Vittoriocacciatore 1 year ago
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ERICWAGNERSLUCID 1 year ago
Cinema le VII art
Dr John Carsanook
Kingdom of Thailand
carsanookdotcom 1 year ago
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There's one comment of an idiot: "Best one-shot Sequence ever? Well, its up there, thats for sure. But watch the backwards steadycam sequence on the beach from "Atonement" [9 minutes] and tell me that doesn't beat this"... I saw that scene and it's just typical Hollywood scene and a digital bull shit, and how can one compare that with the tape camera masterpiece, where even sound feels like music.
mrhttpwww123com 1 year ago
life is big and empty joke
yokcocuk 1 year ago
Or Hitchcock's Rope, the entire movie, haha
marcolopolis555 1 year ago
@marcolopolis555 True. Both were cinematic visionaries. There is a dark poetry in all Tarkovsky 'films'. It needs to be cold and /or raining to fully get into them. Hitchcock on the other hand, made accessible films..or 'movies' for smart people. Both men thought through every element of every frame of every shot obsessively.
jamesandrew2000 1 year ago
@marcolopolis555
"sort of" the whole movie.
Hzqi 1 year ago
One of the best, but what about the opening of Touch of Evil?
marcolopolis555 1 year ago
@marcolopolis555 Or the opening of 'The Player' as they are discussing 'Touch of evil'
jamesandrew2000 1 year ago
@marcolopolis555
Touch of Evil? Touch of Boredom, I'd say. In ToE you can easily think of replacing Welles shot with other, less pretentional and overthetop, and more telling about the story, In case of Tarkovsky, you can't do better (and more beautiful).
Welles was just a card-trick player. Tarkovsky was the real magician.
Wacek4444 1 year ago 4
@Wacek4444 Touch of Evil is form and substance. Zerkalo only form, and many times senseless form. It doesn't matter if it is a stream of consciousness. To understand Tarkovskij greatness u should appreciate Andreij Rubliov, one of my top three movies ever.
vinciano 1 year ago
@vinciano But he didn't have to kill that horse the way he did. More barbaric than anything he wanted to show. No, no, no special effects. Himself admitted unapologetically. Bless his soul. I promised no to watch any more of his films. But that would mean the end of cinema for me? Right now Sacrifice is on my top 3, but that can change. With Dead Man and The Seventh Seal. But not even close to ANY Tarkovski. Just for variety.
openmindset 1 year ago
@openmindset Well, i'm sorry for the horse killing but we are judging his Art, not the man Tarkovsky. Otherwise we should not appreciate or watch Cavaraggio masterful works because he was a murderer. My top three movies are Andreij Rubliov, Nattvardsgasterna and, above all, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc.
vinciano 1 year ago
@vincianoThe man does not affect my judgement of the Art and the Art does not affect my judgement of the man. My real problem is the horse. I wish I could watch Andrey Rublev to the end but my stomach did not let me. (Not the rest) Actually I did watch it in the past when I did not notice the horse. I need to watch Nattvardsgesterna(Swedish? Who?The Night Porter?), La Passion... My take on The Sacrifice is totally unconventional(I guess).Trying to write but lazy. Love Jarman(Wittgenstein).
openmindset 1 year ago
@openmindset You really ought to watch to the end of AndreiRublev because the final chapter and epilogue are by far the best parts. After all the horror and violence and despair that had gone before, the finale suddenly becomes a driving narrative that ends triumphantly with as much power as any film I have ever seen--then the sudden burst of color as Rublev's icons are shown at last.
The Nattwhateva is Bergman's Winter Light. No idea why dude calls it that when everyone else uses English title
MyName42 11 months ago
@MyName42 Yes! The film has so much despair and violence and Rublev thinks there is no point in creating anything in such a vile world, and then he sees the boy who is able to pull off, courageously, the making of that bell. That boy's spirit inspires Rublev and gives him hope again. And you are so right---it is glorious when the icons are then shown in full color at the end. That movie is about everything in life---being down and despondent, losing hope and then finding it somewhere unexpected
nestorian9 11 months ago
@Wacek4444 A cardsharp and a magician ? Not bad, not bad, my friend...
Mazurka1001 1 year ago
well about critycs. about the sequence: fuck yeah, yeah fuck!
ivangrebe 1 year ago
The final shot really does look like a painting.beautiful.
clawlesslawless 1 year ago
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fugazi82 1 year ago
I do not know about nothing regarding sequences in films, so I would appreciate if somebody could explain to me, why this video has been labeled as the 'best ever'.
japonfeudal 1 year ago
@japonfeudal A sequence shot is a long take, meaning, there are no cuts. I don't think this one is the "best ever", but it's a good shot. Sequence shots can be complicated because they require sophisticated camera movements and the timing must be right.
kevinptaylor 1 year ago
@kevinptaylor Thank you very much for taking some of your time and explain this to me, I was unable to understand why this particular secuence is regarded as a very fine one. Now I can dig deeper in order to understand the other aspects but for sure is a very good starting point for me. Thanks again! :-)
japonfeudal 1 year ago
Love Tarkovsky although my favorite scene of his is the chapel scene from Nostalghia. His movies are so dear to me and my life would not be the same had they not existed.
HamsunsGhost 1 year ago 3
@rigsabald now you make me feel bad
xGP7 1 year ago
@rigsabald im not saying tarkovsky is dead im saying the authors mystical patriarchal hegemony over the "meaning" or "purpose" of a work is dead go suck a fuck
xGP7 1 year ago
That's just beautiful. Tarkovsky really knew how to do those long shots. I rember getting bored form in in Stalker, but after seeing it through, I realized the effect. It was almost dream-like, but you still felt close and present.
masterful directing!
MrBummelum 1 year ago
beautiful shot, didn't see the movie, but the colors and the camera movement is just amazing.
nomorephones 1 year ago
@rigsabald the author is dead beep boop learn to criticise
xGP7 1 year ago
That was kinda creepy...
george77772moons 1 year ago
lol This video actually is in Russian
ItsYoungMic 1 year ago
Tarkovsky films are what Hollywood films are if they were not a lie.
draqonofwhitestars 1 year ago
i've heard of this slow tempo acoustic instrumental trio with a sad and expressive violin that goes well with Tarkovsky. it's true, search Youtube for "Radium Karmara"
radiogreenblue 1 year ago
genius.
BigBuddha3 2 years ago
Wow, this shot is extremely well done. I love this sequence shots and this one delivered the needed environmental detail and fluid movement perfectly.
I can't help but feel some inspiration in Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men sequence shots.
Lpedraja2002 2 years ago
The Mirror is one of the most inaccessible movies, a motion picture that never had a theatrical release; there is no plot and narrative time jumps all over the place; initially refused by the Soviet film board for not making sense; it takes several viewings to get a hold on it but it is a classic about lost innocence and emotional abandonment.
shakercoola 2 years ago 3
swansong200 what do you mean not ass god as scorssese or kurosawa? Its just a diffrent style of camera work specific for russian film makers.Long beautifull uninterupted shots that almost resemble a painting.
1eu2tu 2 years ago
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not as good as scorcese or kurosawa, but damn fine camera movement.
swansong200 2 years ago
@swansong200
smoderik 1 year ago
@swansong200 Scorcese is different. All big directors and DOP's are triggered, inspired and motivated by Tarkovsky. In fact, if he was giving lectures, big names in film-industry came to hear his word...... this man is an icon and many times used as example by big directors....
Still I like Scorcese too! :-)
etzilla 1 year ago
huh i dont get it
360viper117 2 years ago
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!
moonmnky177 2 years ago 2
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this scene sucks!!!!!!!!!!
andrymod91 2 years ago
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He makes poetry in his scene and use a lota the lightining and sounds but i really dont see the genius in that
HiggsPat 2 years ago
extrordinarily enough, Tarkovsky was mostly obsessed with composition than the actual photographic side but his movies are the most beautifully filmed I have ever seen, there is a book of his polaroids available from Thames and Hudson. My favourite Director.
Anopholes1 2 years ago
Does anyone know if Tarkovsky was a photographer before he actually made movies?
JRR951 2 years ago
i don't get it
wobbygongman 2 years ago 4
Just watched Lars Von Trier's 'Antichrist' which is dedicated to Tarkovsky.
Although I have not seen this film, judging from this clip, it's clear that Tarkovsky was a direct influence on the film.
indianna22 2 years ago 2
Four more screenings of the award-winning doc 'Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky' in LA: Monica 4-Plex, Santa Monica (Feb. 6,7 at 11AM) and Playhouse 7, Pasadena (Feb. 6,7 at 11AM). See you there!
trakovskyfilm 2 years ago
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Best one-shot Sequence ever? Well, its up there, thats for sure. But watch the backwards steadycam sequence on the beach from "Atonement" [9 minutes] and tell me that doesn't beat this.
fulcrum100 2 years ago
It doesn't beat this, nor does it beat the 6 minute sequence from the end of The Sacrifice. Fuck Atonement.
jpastuch 2 years ago
Clearly, you haven't seen "Russian Ark", "Liberation" or "War and Peace" (Bondarchuk) yet...they have even more bombastic scenes than "Atonement". But this scene is totally different from those shots, its a big metaphor, the main verse of a poem, movie poetry.
Hellof7 2 years ago 3
I like more some other sequences , but the one you say is not even close to this one, tarkovsky didn't film scenes, he painted scenes on film
morfo1010 2 years ago 20
Atonement do not create the same magical atmosphere as The Mirror and Tarkovskys films
Vesters1 2 years ago
Obviously the difference between existentialism and transcendentalism is lost on some. You're comparing the third dimension to the fourth. The full weight of Tarkovsky can not be fathomed unless you realize it's rife with enigmatic symbolism. Context, context, context. Christ, you're comparing a scene from the Mirror with that of a sappy, Jane Austenesque flick?! In the words of John McEnroe, you can not be serious!
muttonbuster 2 years ago
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k that was some gay shit you must be a nerd with no freinds but only online to be intertand by that shit
jonathanp1991 2 years ago
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You must be a punk kid that doesn't understand shit. Your gayness will get your shit pushed in someday in prison, where you will undoubtedly end up. You can't spell for shit, either.
chinopisces 2 years ago
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jkhgsdhgdhgjklsdhfgj 2 years ago
incredibul that the sound of the falling drops is almost the same as the fire (burning house). My mind was melting in this picture...
arizona89 2 years ago 3
Tarkovsky had an outstanding sense of composition, that's for sure.
pakaal22 2 years ago 2
my soul breathe
kevindado388 2 years ago
WOW indead...
VamptasticVamp 2 years ago
Perfect.
Foodfast123 2 years ago
my heart is full
jkhgsdhgdhgjklsdhfgj 2 years ago
Amazing single take, but Tarkovsky outdid this in Offret (The Sacrifice) which has to be seen to be believed. (No CGI in those days either!)
DrRestezi 2 years ago
one wonderful minute
MaximTendu 2 years ago 3
wow
guigs89 2 years ago
watch the mirror or nostalgia, unbelievable filmmaking!
decodeify 2 years ago
agreed. this is an astounding shot. but as amazing as it is, it needs to be seen in context of the film to really grasp its fullness (and of course to be seen on the big screen).
It's like taking a fragment of a Bach cantata. brilliant, yes, but not very meaningful unless you have the rest of it as well.
circles79 2 years ago 4
I couldn't speak or move after I watched this entire film for the first time. It was cinema used as a language I had never experienced before. You often see this film ranked on lists of the greatest films ever made, like on the TSPDT Top 1000, but I wouldn't even know how to do that. 'The Mirror' is something so strikingly different from everything I've ever seen it defies categorization.
isakborg88 2 years ago 2
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uhm? why is this considered brilliant? have you guys ever tried to make a film interesting? thats all it is: Interesting.
y2kbuyusay 2 years ago
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bolderiks 2 years ago
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I suppose that you felt that your response was clever at the time of its composition... well, anyhow, I was just offering my opinion, not trying to dismiss your perceptions. the only reason I feel the way I do about art, is that I create it as well. I know the process and the product.
One thing I know: without questioning, one can only concede.
enjoy your genre.
y2kbuyusay 2 years ago
Mind you, understanding art is not the privelage from its makers. You don't have to be a filmmaker to understand and therefore judge the quality of a film. In fact it can be refressing for an artist to get critict's from a well minded objective outsider. Interaction in art always was and will be a must as you will know. Its the quality of interaction what makes a work good or bad. Of coarse the kind of public matters.
bolderiks 2 years ago
I love this shot and I also absolutely love the "Dream" shot in "Stalker," Tarkovsky's Camera movements are beyond genius and his sound design adds so much to his films its indescribable
thestar13 2 years ago
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Hah, the sound design... so terrible...
esenbeh 2 years ago
This is a monumental 1970's underground soviet film bro... give it a break...
glebvic 2 years ago
good...but there is a better sequence shot in one of Bresson's films forgot the name. Where the guy pick pockets a womans purse.
TheCodeineKid 2 years ago
In my opinion film genius of this time is based on the insufficient range of special effects, understanding of human nature, and philosphical thoughts...in Eastern Europe during communism, this kind of high cinema type was strong because matter was more important than western impact and i'm very thankfull to persons like Tarkovsky or Lem for this kind of art.
Sallieri1 2 years ago 57
@Sallieri1 I dont even think Tarkovsky would have like the special effects if he was alive today. Even back then, there was special effects not digital but on set, he refuse them. IM sure that he would have hated the red cam and all that new school.. If he refused Eisenstein mode of editing, that's why he call it, "time Sculpting.." A true genius...
cineasta71 1 year ago 3
@cineasta71 Yes it's true!
Sallieri1 1 year ago
@Sallieri1
I agree with you in the first part of your argument. But I think you're mistaken when you say that communism atributed more importance to philosophical thoughts. In fact, Tarkovsky's movies were very underestimated in his homeland for supposedly being "not understandable" by the common people. That led to Tarkovksy's making a movie every 5 or 6 years, because he depended on the state's support for working, and tha'ts why he made so very little films. Regards
pelutxe 1 year ago
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You're wrong, dude.
1) cinema were always full when Tarkovsky's films were to be shown. Quite often there were people who couldn't get in because there were no more place to sit.
2) he wasn't underestimated. Common people often wrote to Tarkovsky showing him great appreciation. Not to mention students, intelectuals etc who loved his cinema.
His movies had only few copies in distribution because he refused to cooperate with regime in order to make commie movies.
Wacek4444 1 year ago
@Wacek4444 you must be no more than 10 years old, the time when people started discovering Tarkovski (except for Solaris). A recent retrospective in LA was full (everybody got in) because you will not see those films on a big screen in at least another 10 years. I hope to be alive. Intelectuals don't count. They don't get it. And they don,t watch the films. They watch their intelects wathing the film.
openmindset 1 year ago
@pelutxe
3)He was making 1 film in 7 yrs because he didn't want to make regime films like most of the other USSR directors. He wanted to make films his way, and he did.
4) Go read his Diaries if you wanna know more.
Wacek4444 1 year ago
the four elements
eltopo451 2 years ago 3
Tarkovsky is brilliant - but if you want to see great sequence shots, watch a movie by Bela Tarr.
Trandofir 2 years ago
Absolutely brilliant.
Darksmile1234 2 years ago 3
what cut? there is no cut in the shot. there's no trick, how can you not know how this shot is done when it's showing you all the cards O_o
Inside7out 2 years ago 3
Where would this scene end up without the barking dog. He shouts the depths to be revealed behind our eyes. Tarkovski certainly is not for flatminders. Immaculate scene !
bolderiks 2 years ago
\what is it? the unease which the bark creates?
faroutfari 2 years ago
The dog indeed creates a certain unease in the air. It's echo finds a resonance in our thoughts of fear. Thats what good film is all about. Having a part in it.
bolderiks 2 years ago
I love the rain coming down vs the flames going up.
bananacharlie 2 years ago 3
wow
rambo0003 2 years ago
I agree
kissbalo6 2 years ago
and from the 11 people who agree with me-- you need to stay out of this.
manhattanprojec7 2 years ago
NamelessTurtle: judging from your page and everyone telling you to shut the fuck up, sounds like you don't deserve anything.
manhattanprojec7 2 years ago
Tarkovsky was genius! Great prson, great movies!
And
chekmaria 2 years ago 2
Wow. Is there any frame in this entire sequence that is not perfectly shot and composed. Beautiful.
popaddict 2 years ago 2
Tarkovsky, like the ancient painters of icons, reveals to the eyes of men the very face of God, the birth of the spirit through in the material world.
donbarroco 2 years ago 2
Tarkovsky = Awesome
Superplatanoman 2 years ago 2
one of the most perfects films ever
AlbinusMakedonion 2 years ago 5
Tarkovsky Fans: check out the trailer to my new documentary called MEETING ANDREI TARKOVSKY! Just type the title into the youtube search!
trakovskyfilm 2 years ago
Just to give you an idea of who is talking shit--
Danelleya: nice Fallout (and other pointless video/computer game) videos.. your opinions are automatically disregarded
manhattanprojec7 2 years ago
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You are nothing but a snobby wannabe elitist. You'll never amount to anything in life other than an internet critic. Have a nice day.
pappuali 2 years ago
Arrogance? Wannabe Intellectuals? I am 17 and The Mirror by Tarkovsky (or any other movie by Tarkovsky for that matter) is highly more entertaining than some of the garbage that is being argued.. Morgan Freeman? You gotta be kidding me.
manhattanprojec7 2 years ago 25
Each section pauses on a perfect frame. Simply wonderful.
jakeyboy212 2 years ago 3
i totally understand the disgust towards the phoney, pretentious pseudo-intellectuals. But Tarkovsky does not fit into this category. If it were true then he wouldn't be so cherished in the film community today. Critics with PhD's would dismiss him, but they don't. People have every right to feel bored...BUT art isn't always entertaining. Learning isn't always fun. His most accessible film is Ivan's Childhood...which I highly recommend.
adp023 2 years ago 4
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This is very beautiful but also too slow. No action, no car chase, drama, tension or anything. Just bunch of depressing russians staring at a house on fire. I don´t understand...I mean, I am very knowledgeable in filmmaking but come on! This is like a boring Tolstoy play...
SteiniEinars 2 years ago
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I think you are stupid
BreakDaMaT 2 years ago
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I got 7 thumbs downs? lol
I was merely stating an opinion, you guys with your pseudo artistic arrogance makes me puke in disgust
Danelleya 3 years ago
what did you say? it's gone now, that sucks that YouTube now eliminates comments like that if they get enough thumbs down.
Is your name alluding to director Giorgi Daneliya by any chance?
TourRoyale 3 years ago
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I´m with you Danelleya. This is boring. All those wannabe intellectuals are claiming to admire this piece of slowmoving painting because they don´t dare to admit that any movie with Morgan Freeman is more entertaining than this.
SteiniEinars 2 years ago
I saw the movie in VHS, some 15 years ago. I don't really remember the scene, but then I don't remember anything outrageous about the sound... I very much doubt it was there. It just doesn't sound Tarkovsky. The man had, if anything, a great sense for sound.
Eikinkloster 3 years ago
"The perfect sound to surprise in the middle of a contemplative silence."
Check this early comment:
JanPB (11 months ago)
It's worth noting that the sound in this clip is _incorrect_ - it was remixed by the DVD publisher (RusCiCo) few years ago. The sound of the cuckoo clock, for example, is not at all in the original (also, the cuckoo is calling out the wrong time!). Lots of nonexistent bird sounds were also added. (...) For the correct sound, switch to the mono soundtrack.
Eikinkloster 3 years ago
By the way, Tarkovsky includes Fellini at his top directors at this interview v=Iw1XbE2f304, so: duh :-)
Eikinkloster 3 years ago
"watch Tarkovsky. His films come the closest to portraying the psychological nature of human dreams and memories than any other."
Perhaps the mistake is to think that because it portrays your (and mine) psychological nature, it portrays *human* nature in general. I strongly suspect it doesn't. It's like the Cpt Lisa Nowak the wacko astronaut saying that reaching for the stars is what makes us human. That behavior doesn't define humans. It defines Kshatriyas.
Eikinkloster 3 years ago
it´s been years since the last time i saw this, thnak you! do you happen to have the scene where the milk spills? i need to see it again!
thanks again, i hope you read this
Chechar101 3 years ago
i may start crying while watching it ;((( the beauty hurts damn it
inhmn 3 years ago
The most beautiful and poetic movie ever made by the greatest director ever. In my humble opinion, of course.
ivankaramasov 3 years ago 2
Um holy shit
grinick 3 years ago 3
oh my fucking god! it s incredible. !!
irlanda18 3 years ago 3
danayella , excuse me but youre an idiot , why dont you watch the clip to the end instead of obeying your nat like attention span.
This sequence kicks ass.
jonjonsnipes 3 years ago 5
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I disagree, there is nothing spectacular about a continuous shot ending with a burning hut :/
I liked Solaris though, at least that movie was deep and meaningful
Danelleya 3 years ago
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DANELLEYA SAID -- I disagree, there is nothing spectacular about a continuous shot ending with a burning hut :/
I liked Solaris though, at least that movie was deep and meaningful --
I cant believe a comment as light as that would be marked as spam. It's ridiculous
sunnybrand 2 years ago
Ha Xyu.
chekist1917 3 years ago
We Tarkovsky fans are a devoted lot
sebaaastian13 3 years ago 4
You can say that again!
After seeing Tarkovsky, many films are relatively dull. He really allows you to understand tragedy.
pastrychef1985 3 years ago 8
Yeah its like all other movies compared to Tarkovsky's aren't in the same league, they've been reduced to 1 1/2 long sitcoms.... Tarkovsky movies are like watching PERFECTION manifested..
Ineedu2hateme 3 years ago 5
Does anyone have a clue how they did the trick with the falling bottle? There must be some kind of strings attached or so? I'd be really glad to know!!
Crophus 3 years ago
that actualy is russian but o co tu chodzi ?
Zabek2006 3 years ago
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Armageddon with Bruce Willis is better
ww2footage 3 years ago
im not putting it down, but i dont get it, what exactly do people seen in this sequence?
jackhartcup 3 years ago
looks great
myownservant 3 years ago