Andrei Tarkovsky
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In an interview conducted at Cannes last year to promote the acclaimed drama Green Room, the actor was in expansive mood, talking of his kinship with Russian literature, revulsion for Nazis – and his favourite punk rockers
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Studio behind greatest Soviet movies gets new lease of life thanks to hefty investment from former Putin deputy. The Moscow Times reports
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This triumphant conclusion to the Wolfhound Century trilogy channels the violence, mythology and poetry of Russian history
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From Tarkovsky to the ‘godfather of Star Wars’, The Calvert Journal looks back at the finest examples of Soviet futurism
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Cinema has always liked telling a good life story, and all kinds of biography – from the humblest to the starriest – have been given a filmic going-over. The Guardian and Observer's critics pick the 10 best in a very crowded field
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Elitist and pretentious, or an endangered species? Whatever your feelings, there's no doubt that arthouse movies are among the finest ever made. Here the Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 best
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A long time ago, in a land far away... there were no space movies. Luckily, we have lots and the Guardian and Observer's critics have picked the 10 best
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Cannes prizewinner Carlos Reygadas's semi-autobiographical work, inspired by Tarkovsky, is fantastical – and confusing, writes Philip French
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Poetry through cinema is expressed in Forsström's intensely visual work, inspired by film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky
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Collection of Russian film-maker's letters, audio tapes and photographs expected to fetch up to £100,000 at Sotheby's
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The legendary Italian scriptwriter and novelist, who died yesterday, worked with a host of Europe's greatest auteurs. Here we pick the highlights of his extraordinary oeuvre
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Screenwriter and poet who co-scripted films with Fellini, Antonioni and Tarkovsky
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Sukhdev Sandhu enjoys a very English dissection of Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker
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Geoff Dyer's irreverent commentary on one of cinema's most 'difficult' offerings is a free-wheeling delight, says Killian Fox
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Director Joanna Hogg tells Tom Lamont how she was thrilled by the art-house cinema of Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev
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Danny Leigh: The Russian film-maker's eerie sci-fi vision of a forsaken world uncannily echoes Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant today
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In the second of his diaries from the Sheffield DocFest, David Cox reports on a new documentary that lifts the lid on the troubled gestation of Tarkovsky's sci-fi masterwork, Stalker
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Danny Leigh: What a joy it is to fall into the embrace of the movies of Jim Jarmusch, Béla Tarr and Andrei Tarkovsky, where less – camera movement, cutting, plot – is infinitely more
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What is Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker really about? Geoff Dyer on a film so demanding it may even have killed its director
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Xan Brooks: The Archbishop of Canterbury's all-time favourite films are a classic chalk-and-cheese combo, but I'm sure you can do better
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Peter Bradshaw: Andrei Tarkovsky's final film, from 1986, rereleased for the 75th anniversary of his birth, is brilliant and audacious
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Forget Allen, it is Andrei Tarkovsky who is the more direct descendant of Ingmar Bergman.
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Whether floating in the air or snuffling across the ground, Andrei Tarkovsky's films make you see Earth as if for the first time.
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Tarkovsky's classic film still impresses Jonathan Jones
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Jonathan Jones on how Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev summons up a medieval vision of its subject, and draws an artistic life as far as possible from Charlton Heston's Michelangelo
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The Return has been hailed as a great Russian film. But its not Tarkovsky, and it's not a mafia thriller, and nor is it a cold war comedy. James Meek puts in in the context of a nation in flux
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Andrei Tarkovsky wasn't a great fan of opera. And yet, when Covent Garden asked him to direct Boris Godunov in 1983, he was unable to resist. As this remarkable production is revived, Stuart Jeffries reports on the great Russian film-maker's difficulty with the genre.
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1987: No film by Andrei Tarkovsky is anything other than a daunting prospect.
Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroid photographs to be auctioned