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  • noun Russian filmmaker (1932-1986)

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  • Her visual style brings to mind the lengthy contemplative shots in Tarkovsky's Stalker, Nostalgia and The Sacrifice, and we think of blitzed cities, battlefields, the death camps, the post-industrial world and the impermanence of civilisation.

    Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow – review Philip French 2010

  • Chernobyl and Pripyat also remind me a lot of the desolated Zone in Tarkovsky's film Stalker.

    Archive 2004-05-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • Chernobyl and Pripyat also remind me a lot of the desolated Zone in Tarkovsky's film Stalker.

    Stalker in Ghost Town? Ray Girvan 2004

  • Bloodaxe Books recently issued a new collection in English, Tarkovsky’s Horses and Other Poems, translated by David McDuff, which is an important addition to translated Danish literature.

    Points of the compass David McDuff 2010

  • Bloodaxe Books recently issued a new collection in English, Tarkovsky’s Horses and Other Poems, translated by David McDuff, which is an important addition to translated Danish literature.

    Archive 2010-03-01 David McDuff 2010

  • Mind you, I wouldn’t call Tarkovsky’s Stalker obscure either.

    Top Ten Obscure SF Films « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2008

  • But then I did say I don’t consider foreign films such as Tarkovsky’s, or Alphaville, or The Host especially obscure.

    Top Ten Obscure SF Films « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2008

  • In the interest of journalistic transparency, I should report that in December 2010, my own Facebook account was suspended for posted nude imagery by artists Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Andrei Tarkovsky, and classical painted and sculpted nudes from ancient Greece and Rome.

    G. Roger Denson: Courbet's Origin of the World Still Too Scandalous for Media-Savvy Facebook! G. Roger Denson 2011

  • In the interest of journalistic transparency, I should report that in December 2010, my own Facebook account was suspended for posted nude imagery by artists Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Andrei Tarkovsky, and classical painted and sculpted nudes from ancient Greece and Rome.

    G. Roger Denson: Courbet's Origin of the World Still Too Scandalous for Media-Savvy Facebook! G. Roger Denson 2011

  • There are thousands of people who are lining up to join art schools, and one of the Chinese curators had this to say “When you can buy a Tarkovsky film for a dollar, you will obviously produce many more artists”.

    Recent reading: piracy as creativity Rebecca Tushnet 2009

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