I commend to you Michael Anton’s searing essay in New Criterion, on the rapid disintegration of our civilization. His argument is that the degeneration of America today has no antecedents — not even ...

If the high-profile releases of the summer have been bumming you out, fear not, a masterwork will arrive at the end of the season, albeit one half-a-century old. On the heels of recent theatrical ...

Many art historians believe that Andrei Rublev was the greatest painter of the 15 th century, and his religious icons still adorn churches throughout Russia. In analyzing Rublev’s art, it would be ...

"Through our sins, evil has assumed human form." Janus Films has debuted a new trailer for a restoration re-release of the acclaimed classic Andrei Rublev, the fourth film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky ...

In the most powerful section of Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky’s hugely ambitious 1966 epic of medieval Russia, a young man whose village and family have been destroyed by the plague convinces the ...

The name of the late Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky has practically become synonymous with the rigorous extremes of art-house cinema: Either you find the immersive long takes and enigmatic imagery ...

Andrei Rublev (1966) was Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s second feature film. And while his debut, My Name is Ivan (1962), was the work of someone with a well-developed visual singularity, Rublev ...

Andrei Tarkovsky’s first major film (1966, though banned and unseen until 1971), cowritten by Andrei Konchalovsky, about a 15th-century icon painter. This medieval epic announced the birth of a major ...