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Tatiana Yankelevich, daughter of Soviet dissidents Yelena Bonner and Andrei Sakharov, also addressed participants...
...ANDREI TARKOVSKY'S The Sacrifice is without a doubt the most passionate cinematic account to date of the individual's struggle to keep heart and soul together in a world weighed under by the nuclear burden. It's prophecy, propaganda, and apocalyptic parable, shot through with a sense of moral indignation at once rabidly didactic and rationally hysterical...
This is the mood in Solaris, Mirror and the other sanctuaries erected over the past quarter-century by Andrei Tarkovsky. The pleasures these films admit are rarefied: the meticulous placing of actors and objects in a frame, the charged and stately grace of a camera movement, the surreal images from someone else's dream. Yet you should also feel the spectacular unity of vision and visuals, of passion and method. Compared with The Sacrifice's art, the formal sophistication of even the best Hollywood movies seems superficially applied, like press-on nails and a styling...
...Name Is Ivan (1962). Tarkovsky was just 30 then, the son of a renowned Soviet poet and the rising sun of the Soviet film establishment -- a cinema Yevtushenko. But soon his artistic intransigence and the supposed obscurity of his themes nettled the bureaucracy that financed his films. The epic Andrei Rublev, completed in 1966, was not released in the U.S.S.R. until 1971; Solaris (1972), based on the Stanislaw Lem novel, suffered official censure; the lusciously enigmatic Mirror (1978) and Stalker (1979) sealed Tarkovsky's fate as a picturemaker on the way out. Within a few years, he was. He went...
...gamble, it appeared to pay off in Moscow. When Gorbachev stepped off his jet Monday night, he was treated like a conquering hero by the Politburo. They shook his hand in vigorous congratulations in a scene viewed by millions on Soviet TV. Even Andrei Gromyko, the granite-faced grand old man of Soviet foreign policy, was smiling...