“...with music, cinema is an art which operates with reality.”—Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in TimeAndrei Tarkovsky felt music was most acceptable in film when used like a refrain in poetry, bringing the audience back to their first experience upon entering the poetic world of the film; at once the material is experienced as new, and yet part of the initial memory. Tarkovsky used music sparingly over his feature film work but with the belief that music and sound should become a part of the experience itself, folding into the dream logic and memory of the work. At the beginning of his career his work with composer Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov brought impressive orchestral pieces and traditional Russian song, later, the composer Eduard Artemyev explored the possibilities of electronic music and sound design. Tarkovsky stated in his seminal book Sculpting in Time (1984) that he felt electronic music had rich possibilities for cinema and...
- 3/30/2020
- MUBI
Amazing! Colossal! And it’s good, too! ‘Gone With the Wind’ is a tempest in a teacup compared to this jaw-dropping adaptation of the Tolstoy classic: seven hours of artful splendor, passionate characters, map-altering politics and the biggest, most spectacular battle scenes ever filmed. Sergei Bondarchuck has it all in control; the new restoration gives Soviet show color and clarity we’ve never seen before. Two discs, four parts, no waiting. Cover charge may apply.
War and Peace
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 983
1965-67 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 422> min. / available through The Criterion Collection/ Street Date June 25, 2019 / 49.95
Starring: Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Irina Gubanova, Antonina Shuranova, Sergei Bondarchuk, Oleg Tabakov, N. Tolkachyov.
Cinematography: Anatoli Petritsky, Aleksandr Shelenkov
Film Editor: Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennadi Myasnikov
Original Music: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Written by Sergei Bondarchuk and Vasili Solovyov
from the novel by Leo Tolstoy
Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk
Thanks to the streaming of miniseries and the...
War and Peace
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 983
1965-67 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 422> min. / available through The Criterion Collection/ Street Date June 25, 2019 / 49.95
Starring: Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Irina Gubanova, Antonina Shuranova, Sergei Bondarchuk, Oleg Tabakov, N. Tolkachyov.
Cinematography: Anatoli Petritsky, Aleksandr Shelenkov
Film Editor: Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennadi Myasnikov
Original Music: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Written by Sergei Bondarchuk and Vasili Solovyov
from the novel by Leo Tolstoy
Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk
Thanks to the streaming of miniseries and the...
- 6/22/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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