Friday night, my wife and I attended the Pacific Film Archive's first screening of 2018 - a new 4K restoration of Andrei Tarkovsky's final film, The Sacrifice. The film opens with the main character (Erland Josephson) teaching a young boy how to plant and care for a new tree. This is clearly an optimistic sign … Continue reading Tarkovsky’s Sacrifice at the Pacific Film Archive
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Movies I’ve Recently Seen: Stalker, Bad Education, Bardelys the Magnificent, & Carry on Cleo
Four more films that are new to me. As usual, I'm sorting them by quality. A Stalker (1979), Filmstruck This slow, strange, allegorical fantasy from the great Andrei Tarkovsky gets under your skin. A guide, called a stalker, takes two other men on a journey into a strange place called The Zone. We never find out … Continue reading Movies I’ve Recently Seen: Stalker, Bad Education, Bardelys the Magnificent, & Carry on Cleo
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