OCTOBER 3: Russia's Children at War - 7.00 pm
Ivan's Childhood
Andrei Tarkovsky) 1961 USSR 95 mins M
Ivan's Childhood
Andrei Tarkovsky) 1961 USSR 95 mins M
Tarkovsky's measured & poetic debut feature follows a 12 year-old partisan who is orphaned by the Nazis & forced to grow up in a world too harsh for innocence. Ranging from harrowing realism to ghostly expressionism, the film showers its audience with a plethora of cinematic effects & starkly beautiful landscapes. An experiential odyssey that was a huge influence on Soviet cinema's view of WWII. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Articles from CTEQ Annotations on Film:
Relevant Articles from Senses of Cinema:
"Ivan's Childhood" - Ferus Daly and Katherine Waugh
"Great Directors Critical Database: Andrei Tarkovsky - Maximillian Le Cain
"Immanence and Transcendence In The Cinema of Nature - Fergus Daly
OCTOBER 3: Russia's Children at War - 8.45 pm
Come & See
(Elem Klimov) 1985 USSR 142 mins M
Come & See
(Elem Klimov) 1985 USSR 142 mins M
Klimov's visionary war movie about a young, journeying partisan who witnesses a Nazi massacre in a Belarussian village, is a bleak & horrific coming-of-age odyssey that rivals & ultimately tops Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood. Tracing the boy's picaresque passage from wide-eyed enthusiasm to weary detachment, this is one of the last classics of epic Soviet cinema, remaining amongst the best, most finely nuanced & haunted accounts of WWII's Eastern Front.
Articles from CTEQ Annotations on Film: