Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

According to the sacraments of global cinema, the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky was a kind of latter-day saint of the big screen. Exiled from his homeland, monastically devoted to his craft, he ...

Andrei Tarkovsky made only 11 movies in his lifetime—seven features, three student films, and one documentary—yet his influence on cinema is enormous. While most directors played by the rules, he ...

Widely considered the greatest Russian director since Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky’s relatively brief career as a director produced several classics of world cinema such as Andrei Rublev, Solaris, ...

Something is amiss on the space station at the center of Solaris (1972). Sent to evaluate the facility, psychologist Kris Kelvin (played by Donatas Banionis) arrives to find it in grim disarray, its ...

A new 4k restoration of Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1986 film “The Sacrifice” starts Feb. 2 at the Nuart. This is an excerpt from a review published Dec. 22, 1986. The restored version of Tarkovsky’s 1979 film ...

Andrei Tarkovsky’s Cannes-lauded 1972 film ‘Solaris’, based on Stanisław Lem’s novel of the same name, is considered a masterpiece. But here’s the paradox: the Polish author felt very negatively about ...

'My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle," Ingmar Bergman once said. "Suddenly I found myself standing at the door of a room the key of which had, until then, never been given to me.

The name Andrei Tarkovsky may not be as well-known a name in pop culture when compared to the two foreign language auteurs of the 20th century with whom he is most often associated: Ingmar Bergman and ...