From: Gary KenworthyTo: Nostalghia.comDate: July 25, 2004 7:39:57 PM MDTSubject: Re: Nostalghia Screening in BerkeleyI attended the screening at the PFA on Thursday. The theaterwas nearly full.
Unfortunately, it was not a new print.The woman who introduced the film warned that the print wasnot in good shape and they normally would not show a print inthis condition, but it was the only print available in thiscountry. So I was prepared for the worst, but the print wasnot as bad as I expected. The first couple of minutes werepretty scratched, and the beginning and end of the first fewreels were not in good shape, but aside from that it was inworn but decent condition. There were only a couple of briefsplices and while there were certainly small scratches hereand there it was not too bad. However, the sound had constantcrackles and hiss.
But overall, I did not think that the printwas in bad enough shape to justify the film being ommitted fromthe Castro retrospective last year, or the one at the UC Theaterin 2000. I would have much preferred to see the film in thoseretrospectives even with this print.GaryThe Andrei Tarkovsky Institute (Firenze division), would like toinvite you to a July 27–28 event at Bagno Vignoni: PDF.A rough English translation follows (see above PDFs for the full programme listing).
CrewDirected byNOSTALGHIA is Andrei Tarkovsky's brooding late masterpiece, a darkly poetic vision of exile. It was the first of his features to be made outside of Russia, the home to which he would never return.Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word 'nostalghia' conveys 'the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away.' This debilitating form of homesickness is embodied in the film by Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror), a Russian intellectual doing research in Italy. He becomes obsessed with the Botticelli-like beauty of his translator Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano), as well as with the apocalyptic ramblings of a self-destructive wanderer named Domenico (Erland Josephson, The Sacrifice).Written with frequent Michelangelo Antonioni collaborator Tonino Guerra ( L'Avventura), NOSTALGHIA is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide. Hoberman wrote, 'NOSTALGHIA is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours.' Interested in bringing Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia to your school or library?If you'd like to have an in-class viewing, on-campus screening, or purchase the DVD foryour library's collection, please contact Estelle Grosso at or call(212) 629-6880 with your request.Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia may also be available with Public Performance Rights (PPR)and Digital Site Licensing (DSL) for colleges and universities. To purchase the DVD with PPRor DSL, please contact Estelle Grosso at or call (212) 629-6880.To read more about Kino Lorber Edu's terms of use and ordering information,visit.
Download Nostalgia Subtitles (subs - srt files) in all available video formats. Subtitles for Nostalgia found in search results bellow can have various languages. Throughout his works, Tarkovsky moved freely between dream space and reality, staging his visions through the medium of cinema as a pure, ethereal art form. This programme features all seven films of the great Soviet master, from Ivan's Childhood to his last masterpiece The Sacrifice, all presented in their original version with English subtitles.
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