ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

For more on the documentary Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky (& to also inquire about the press screening tomorrow in NYC) go to this site (there's also a Facebook link on the site, might be a good way to get in touch with producers of the press screening tomorrow). About the doc, from the Film Society of Lincoln Center site : "In 1987, a year after Tarkovsky’s death, Dmitry Trakovsky and his parents emigrated from Russia to the United States, where he grew up feeling a special relationship to the images, sounds, and themes in Tarkovsky’s films. Here, he goes in searchof other lives affected by the auteur’s work: collaborators Erland Josephson and Domiziana Giordano, friends Krzysztof Zanussi and Franco Terilli, an Orthodox priest, and even the director’s son. Andrei Andreevich Tarkovsky. The result is a touching, highly personal and provocative record of the lingering effects of Tarkovsky on an extraordinary range of individuals." More at the site , including screeni

That could be a web show (get on it Reid! :), but, for the moment, a blog entry will have to do. From Reid Rosefelt's recent post " What Andrei Tarkovsky Said About Francis Coppola ": "In the early 80’s, I was running a movie PR firm called “Reid Rosefelt Publicity.” The title sounded impressive, but it was only me and an assistant or two working out of my bedroom in my apartment on Riverside Drive. Some of the people who worked with me included future Premiere Magazine editor Howard Karren , director/producer Sara Driver (mentioned last week), writer Jane Hammerslough , leading New York unit publicist Julie Kuehndorf , and filling in for a few weeks as a favor, Adam Brooks , who would go on to write Jonathan Demme’s “Beloved” and direct “Definitely, Maybe.” Among the films that were promoted out of my bedroom include Jim Jarmusch’s “Stranger Than Paradise,” Susan Seidelman’s “Desperately Seeking Susan,” Werner Herzog’s “Fitzcarraldo” (and Les Blank’s “Burden of

Old, but still good, from the interview article at The Guardian : "Andersson's cast members are not actors playing faceless figures, but non-professionals who bring their physical peculiarities (pretty extreme peculiarities at that) to bulk out his dream world. Some of them are familiar to Swedish TV viewers as regulars in Andersson's commercials; nearly all are fished at random from Swedish society. They include a lawyer, a retired insurance clerk, and a former embassy chauffeur. The whale-like Lars Nordh, who plays a depressive businessman, was spotted shopping at Ikea; he's since become famous as a mean-spirited farmer in Andersson's dairy ads." Read the rest of the article at this link . And here's a clip from Andersson's You, the Living : :: ADVERTISEMENT Farzad Rostami Delaware Tobacco blog post 3/24/13: http://farzadrostamidelawaretobacco.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-bqe-film-by-sufjan-stevens.html Farz