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Andrei Tarkovskiy's Favourite Films

by alix_no • Created 12 years ago • Modified 11 years ago
Films 1-10 are Tarkovskiy's favorites. The rest are films that Tarkovskiy was known to enjoy, love and admire.

Andrei Tarkovskiy's Favorite Directors:
-Luis Bunuel
-Robert Bresson
-Ingmar Bergman
-Kenji Mizoguchi
-Aleksander Dovzhenko
-Sergei Parajanov
-Akira Kurosawa
-Michaelangelo Antonioni
-Jean Vigo
-Carl T. Dreyer

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[link]http://criterioncollection.tumblr.com/post/47109888544/cinephilearchive-in-1972-andrei-tarkovsky-told#_=_[/link]
[link]http://mubi.com/lists/films-admired-by-tarkovsky[/link]
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  • Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

    1. Diary of a Country Priest

    19511h 35mNot Rated
    7.7 (13K)
    A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.
    DirectorRobert BressonStarsClaude LayduNicole LadmiralJean Riveyre
    “There are few people of genius in the cinema; look at Bresson, Mizoguchi, Dovzhenko, Paradzhanov, Bunuel: not one of them could be confused with anyone else. An artist of that calibre follows one straight line, albeit at great cost…always in the name of the one idea, the one conception.”
    Andrei Tarkovskiy
  • Winter Light (1963)

    2. Winter Light

    19631h 21mNot Rated
    8.0 (28K)
    A small-town priest struggles with his faith.
    DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsIngrid ThulinGunnar BjörnstrandGunnel Lindblom
  • Wild Strawberries (1957)

    3. Wild Strawberries

    19571h 32mNot Rated88Metascore
    8.1 (121K)
    After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.
    DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsVictor SjöströmBibi AnderssonIngrid Thulin
  • Nazarin (1959)

    4. Nazarin

    19591h 34mNot Rated
    7.7 (6.8K)
    A priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but many others do not return the favor.
    DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsFrancisco RabalMarga LópezRita Macedo
  • Charles Chaplin in City Lights (1931)

    5. City Lights

    19311h 27mG99Metascore
    8.5 (208K)
    With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
    DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinVirginia CherrillFlorence Lee
    “He is Chaplin, pure and simple: a unique phenomenon, never to be repeated. He is unadulterated hyperbole; but above all he stuns us at every moment of hsi screen existence with the truth of his hero’s behaviour…He doesn’t play. He lives those idiotic situations, is an organic part of them”
    Andrei Tarkovskiy
  • Machiko Kyô and Masayuki Mori in Ugetsu (1953)

    6. Ugetsu

    19531h 36mNot Rated
    8.1 (27K)
    A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.
    DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsMasayuki MoriMachiko KyôKinuyo Tanaka
  • Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Yoshio Inaba, Daisuke Katô, Isao Kimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Takashi Shimura, and Keiko Tsushima in Seven Samurai (1954)

    7. Seven Samurai

    19543h 27mNot Rated98Metascore
    8.6 (387K)
    Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTakashi ShimuraKeiko Tsushima
  • Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann in Persona (1966)

    8. Persona

    19661h 23mNot Rated86Metascore
    8.0 (137K)
    A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
    DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBibi AnderssonLiv UllmannMargaretha Krook
  • Mouchette (1967)

    9. Mouchette

    19671h 21mNot Rated
    7.7 (14K)
    A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
    DirectorRobert BressonStarsNadine NortierJean-Claude GuilbertMarie Cardinal
  • Woman in the Dunes (1964)

    10. Woman in the Dunes

    19642h 27mNot Rated
    8.4 (24K)
    An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
    DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsEiji OkadaKyôko KishidaKôji Mitsui
  • Earth (1930)

    11. Earth

    19301h 15mUnrated
    7.2 (6.7K)
    In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
    DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsStepan ShkuratSemyon SvashenkoYuliya Solntseva
  • 8½ (1963)

    12. 8½

    19632h 18mNot Rated93Metascore
    8.0 (130K)
    A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
    DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnouk AiméeClaudia Cardinale
  • Andrzej Wajda in Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

    13. Ashes and Diamonds

    19581h 43mNot Rated
    7.7 (14K)
    As World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.
    DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsZbigniew CybulskiEwa KrzyzewskaWaclaw Zastrzezynski
  • Tatyana Bestayeva, Ivan Chendej, Yuri Ilyenko, Larisa Kadochnikova, Mikhail Kotsiubinsky, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Sergei Parajanov, and Georgiy Yakutovich in Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)

    14. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

    19651h 37m
    7.8 (9.2K)
    A timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.
    DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsIvan MikolaychukLarisa KadochnikovaTatyana Bestayeva
  • L'Atalante (1934)

    15. L'Atalante

    19341h 29mNot Rated
    7.7 (18K)
    Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.
    DirectorJean VigoStarsDita ParloJean DastéGilles Margaritis
  • Maria Falconetti and Eugene Silvain in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

    16. The Passion of Joan of Arc

    19281h 54mPassed98Metascore
    8.1 (66K)
    In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy, and the ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force her to recant her claims of holy visions.
    DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsMaria FalconettiEugene SilvainAndré Berley
  • Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (1970)

    17. Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird

    19701h 25m
    7.6 (1.4K)
    A carefree young percussionist roams the streets of Tbilisi, interacting with friends and strangers alike, and tries to avoid responsibilities.
    DirectorOtar IosselianiStarsGela KandelakiGogi ChkheidzeJansug Kakhidze
  • Shame (1968)

    18. Shame

    19681h 43mR
    8.0 (16K)
    In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
    DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsLiv UllmannMax von SydowSigge Fürst
  • Gabriele Ferzetti and Monica Vitti in L'Avventura (1960)

    19. L'Avventura

    19602h 24mNot Rated
    7.7 (36K)
    A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
    DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsGabriele FerzettiMonica VittiLea Massari
  • Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, and Monica Vitti in La Notte (1961)

    20. La Notte

    19612h 2mNot Rated
    7.9 (25K)
    A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.
    DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsJeanne MoreauMarcello MastroianniMonica Vitti
  • Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, and Monica Vitti in L'Eclisse (1962)

    21. L'Eclisse

    19622h 6mNot Rated
    7.7 (24K)
    A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.
    DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsMonica VittiAlain DelonFrancisco Rabal
  • Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, and Ruth Warrick in Citizen Kane (1941)

    22. Citizen Kane

    19411h 59mPG100Metascore
    8.3 (483K)
    Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.' s
    DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy Comingore
  • The Color of Pomegranates (1969)

    23. The Color of Pomegranates

    19691h 19mNot Rated
    7.6 (15K)
    The life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death: his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors, and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia. Hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
    DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsSofiko ChiaureliMelkon AlekyanVilen Galstyan
  • Through a Glass Darkly (1961)

    24. Through a Glass Darkly

    19611h 30mNot Rated84Metascore
    7.9 (29K)
    Recently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family in their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.
    DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsHarriet AnderssonGunnar BjörnstrandMax von Sydow
    “Bergman is a master with sound. It’s impossible to forget what he does with the lighthouse in Through a Glass Darkly; a sound on the very brink of audibility."
  • Luis Buñuel, Pierre Batcheff, Salvador Dalí, Jaume Miravitlles, Simone Mareuil, and Fano Messan in Un chien andalou (1929)

    25. Un chien andalou

    192916mNot RatedShort
    7.6 (56K)
    Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
    DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis Buñuel

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