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ANDREI TARKOVSKY: POCKET GUIDE
A new pocket guide to Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky
(1932-1986), director of seven feature films, including Mirror,
Andrei Roublyov, Solaris and The Sacrifice. This book explores
every aspect of Andrei Tarkovsky's output, including scripts,
budget, production, shooting, editing, camera, sound, music,
acting, themes, symbols, motifs, and spirituality. Tarkovsky's
films are analyzed in depth, with scene-by-scene discussions. Fully
illustrated.
Andrei Tarkovsky is one of the most fascinating of filmmakers.
He is supremely romantic, an old-fashioned, traditional artist - at
home in the company Leonardo da Vinci, Pieter Brueghel, Aleksandr
Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoievsky andByzantine icon painters. Tarkovsky
is a magician, no question, but argues for demystification (even
while films celebrate mystery). His films are full of magical
events, dreams, memory sequences, multiple viewpoints, multiple
time zones and bizarre occurrences.
As genre films, Andrei Tarkovsky's movies are some of the most
accomplished in cinema. As science fiction films, Stalker and
Solaris have no superiors, and very few peers. Only the greatest
sci-fi films can match them: Metropolis, King Kong, Close
Encounters of the Third Kind and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Tarkovsky
happily and methodically rewrote the rules of the sci-fi genre:
Stalker and Solaris are definitely not routine genre outings. They
don't have the monsters, the aliens, the visual effects, the
battles, the laser guns, the stunts and action set-pieces of
regular science fiction movies.
No one could deny that Andrei Roublyov is one of the greatest
historical films to explore the Middle Ages, up there with The
Seventh Seal, El Cid, The Navigator and Pier Paolo Pasolini's
'Life' trilogy. If you judge Andrei Roublyov in terms of historical
accuracy, epic spectacle, serious themes, or cinematic poetry, it
comes out at the top. Finally, in the religious film genre, The
Sacrifice and Nostalghia are among the finest in cinema, the equals
of the best of Ingmar Bergman, Luis Bunuel, Robert Bresson and
Carl-Theodor Dreyer. The text for this new edition has been updated
and revised.
Includes illustrations, bibliography and notes. ISBN
978186171834.
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS MOVIES: POCKET GUIDE
A pocket guide to the Hollywood adaptions of J.R.R. Tolkien's
fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings, released in 2001, 2002 and
2003. The book tells you everything you need to know about these
very popular films, from writing the script through casting and
financing, to shooting and performances, to visual effects, editing
and theatrical distribution.
The pocket guide includes discussions of every single scene in
the three movies, including the Special Extended Editions (some
scenes are explored in great detail, as well as some key individual
shots). There are sections on the all of the important differences
between The Lord of the Ring book and the Hollywood movies
(including numerous details), as well as a chapter exploring the
additions and the omissions. Looks at behind the scenes stories,
and also the critical response to the movies.
There are chapters on the visual effects, on the casting and key
personnel of the movies, on the studio and the financing of the
films, on the music and sound, and the marketing and release of the
movies in 2001-2003 (including the home entertainment releases on
DVD and video). There is also a chapter on the critical response to
the movies.
There is also an appendix on other adaptions of J.R.R. Tolkien's
books.
Jeremy Robinson has written many critical studies, including
Steven Spielberg, Arthur Rimbaud, Jean-Luc Godard, Hayao Miyazaki,
Ken Russell, Walerian Borowczyk, and The Sacred Cinema of Andrei
Tarkovsky, plus literary monographs on: J.R.R. Tolkien; J.M.W.
Turner; Samuel Beckett; Thomas Hardy; Arthur Rimbaud; Andre Gide;
John Cowper Powys; Robert Graves; and Lawrence Durrell.
Includes bibliography, illustrations, appendices and notes. ISBN
9781861713780. 496 pages.
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