CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/11/2020

BACK IN STOCK! 'Andrey Tarkovsky: Life and Work' pays homage to a Russian visionary of near biblical intensity

Featured image—a still from Andrey Tarkovsky's first film, Ivan's Childhood (1962)—is reproduced from Life and Work: Film by Film, Stills, Polaroids & Writings, the classic small-format homage compiled and edited by Tarkovsky's son, Andrey Jr. "My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle," Ingmar Bergman wrote in 1986. "Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease. I felt encouraged and stimulated: someone was expressing what I had always wanted to say without knowing how. Tarkovsky is for me the greatest, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream."