Tarkovsky

/ ˈtɑkɔfskij /

noun

1. TarkovskyAndrei19321986MRussianFILMS AND TV: director Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)

Example Sentences

In high school, Kapadia discovered a film club, started by her chemistry teacher, that screened movies by Werner Herzog, Andrei Tarkovsky and Satyajit Ray.

From Los Angeles Times

The central themes in “Spaceman,” loneliness and disconnection, are fundamental in many cerebral space movies including “2001,” but perhaps more so in Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 Soviet space drama, “Solaris,” about a small crew of scientists who come mentally undone.

From New York Times

Also set in medieval times is Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Andrei Rublev,” the life story of a 15th-century Russian iconographer, screening in the director’s preferred 183-minute cut.

From Seattle Times

They fear what they don’t understand; the writer and director Alex Garland, adapting the novel by Jeff VanderMeer, crafts a thrilling yet thoughtful combination of head trip and hero’s journey that owes more to Tarkovsky than Lucas.

From New York Times

Lem, who died in 2006, was frustrated by Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 film adaptation and bristled at the concept of Steven Soderbergh’s 2002 version, though he apparently never saw it.

From Seattle Times