Tag: Tarkovsky
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the freshness of being
I couldn’t stop watching it. Again. Like, the film is two hours and forty fucking minutes long. It’s also been a solid two years or so since the first time I saw it. And it’s not the same. I thought it would feel slower. That I would be made to feel each agonising camera movement […]
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The world is so unutterably boring
Sometimes it’s the movement. Just the movement. As the light hits a blade of grass, or a leaf — something that’s completely out of a cinematographer’s control. Sometimes it’s the perfect placement of a vaguely recognisable object — like a syringe, or a coin, or a calendar page — just below the surface of a […]