Andrei Tarkovsky

While Russian film-makers such as Andrei Tarkovsky once pushed the science fiction envelope, these days those in the know increasingly look to Japan and Korea.

The Guardian World News 2009

And now Mosfilm, the 87-year-old titan of Soviet and Russian film production—famed for works by masters such as Sergei Eisenstein and Andrei Tarkovsky, as well as genre films from adventure tales to musicals—has taken a leap into that river.

A Russian Titan Embraces the Web Kristin M. Jones 2011

Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky supposedly felt "2001" was too cold-hearted.

Dreams and Screams Steve Dollar 2011

In Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, the hero is tormented by the 'eternal recurrence' of his beloved who continually returns to him and is lost again to a time-bending cosmic ocean.

Govindini Murty: In Time and Tower Heist: Can Robbing the Rich Solve Inequality? Govindini Murty 2011

Two further videos turn a train journey through Asia into a meditation on time, and reflect on film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky's expedition into memory and Russian history, Mirror.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

With nods to Andrei Tarkovsky and Chris Marker , "General Orders No. 9" is Robert Person 's deeply personal meditation on the transformation of an Edenic southern landscape into an exurban nowhere of highway junctions and faceless sprawl.

Documentary Dramas and Communist Comedies Steve Dollar 2011

"The Thaw" presented Russian films that followed the relaxation in censorship after Stalin's death and featured early works by such seminal Soviet filmmakers as Elem Klimov, Larisa Shepitko, Sergei Parajanov and Andrei Tarkovsky.

On Screen: Rare Comedy for Cinephiles Anthony Paletta 2011

Mosfilm A scene from Andrei Tarkovsky's 'The Mirror' 1974, one of the many movies from the Mosfilm collection now available on YouTube.

A Russian Titan Embraces the Web Kristin M. Jones 2011

The concert features music by Steve Reich and Krzysztof Penderecki, as well as a commemorative piece by composer-performers Ben Frost (Australia) and Daniel Bjarnason (Iceland)—with video manipulations from the Andrei Tarkovsky film "Solaris" created by Brian Eno and Nick Robertson.

Playing It Unsafe at the Unsound Festival Steve Dollar 2011

The Strugatsky brothers collaborated on numerous novels and stories, the best known of which is this, partly because it was filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky as Stalker, in 1977.

The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction 2011