Polaroids by Andrey Tarkovsky to Go to Auction

A polaroid by Tarkovsky.

This week, Bonham’s auction house in London announced “Nostalgia: Before and After – Important Polaroids by Andrey Tarkovsky.” Set for October 6, the auction will feature 257 Polaroids by the late director, divided into 29 lots of nine and ten pictures each. Individual lots are estimated to go for between $26,000 and $50,000. The photos have never been seen by the public before.

The majority of the shots were taken while Tarkovsky was shooting “Nostalgia” (1983) in Italy and Russia in the late 70s and early 80s. They feature the same stark sense of atmospherics that that film — indeed all of Tarkovsky’s films — captured so well. Not to mention a sense of nostalgia itself — a reflection on time gone by. Read more...

A Five-Point Guide to Stanley Kubrick's Cinematic Opus

Film Still, The Shining, Stanley Kubrick

When Stanley Kubrick paired soaring Beethoven with depraved violence in A Clockwork Orange (1971), audiences were shocked. He was behind so many innovations in cinema that “Kubrickian” has become a shorthand adjective for touches inspired by him, from anachronistic music to the fluid camerawork he favoured. Homages and parodies of iconic scenes in his films are endless, and directors from David Lynch to Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese and George A. Romero sing his praises. Read more...

Celebrating Robby Müller

A still from Paris, Texas (1984)

The New York Times recently published an article about the great Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller, who has an upcoming retrospective at Eye film museum. Müller has given us some of the most transcendent images ever captured on-screen. Since beginning his career in the late sixties, he has lensed a wealth of indelible moments—from Harry Dean Stanton wandering alone through the vast Southwestern desert in Wim Wenders’s Paris, Texas (one of my favorite scenes in cinema history) to the jailbirds of Jim Jarmusch’s Down by Law on their odyssey through the Louisiana bayou. 

Celebrating Robby Müller

Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art

Michael Heizer’s “Circular Surface, Planar Displacement Drawing,” 1969, located at El Mirage Dry Lake. Image by Gianfranco Gorgoni and Getty Research Institute

Troublemakers uncovers the history of land art during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film features a cadre of New York artists that sought to transcend the limitations of painting and sculpture by producing earthworks on a monumental scale in the desert spaces of the American Southwest. 

Featuring: Germano Celant, Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Vito Acconci and Carl Andre among others. 

Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art