From time to time I will be posting documentaries, old films, short films, any odd thing I come along, most all of them in the public domain or otherwise on offer. They are hosted here, so the picture quality is only average and not fit for large screens, but this is to keep all of the links reliable! The first: Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev.
Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, the second feature by Andrei Tarkovsky vividly conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. This dreamlike and remarkably tactile film follows Andrei Rublev as he passes through a series of poetically linked scenes—snow falls inside an unfinished church, naked pagans stream through a thicket during a torchlit ritual, a boy oversees the clearing away of muddy earth for the forging of a gigantic bell—gradually emerging as a man struggling mightily to preserve his creative and religious integrity. Appearing here in the director’s preferred 183-minute cut…The masterwork Andrei Rublev is one of Tarkovsky’s most revered films, an arresting meditation on art, faith, and endurance. source
