I have seen every Tarkovsky film, and there is little doubt in my mind they gain infinitely in a theater, where the scope and beauty of them can be most fully appreciated. His wide, glacial shots are too enveloping to be shoved into a screen that never ventures into one’s peripheral vision. Questioning the necessity of a home video release is absurd – old films are predominantly viewed at this point in time on televisions. To not send his work there would be to condemn it to near nonexistence. It is unfortunate, but it is. The issue is how to do it responsibly, to present the work with a nod towards the theatrical experience and an understanding between disc and viewer that the transfer may be insufficient, but the film certainly isn’t.
And if this all sounds terribly esoteric, so be it, but given my transformative experience seeing Mirror,...
And if this all sounds terribly esoteric, so be it, but given my transformative experience seeing Mirror,...
- 7/28/2017
- by Scott Nye
- CriterionCast
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