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Originally Posted by ImGettinThatFaSho
yes...but we dont live in russia now do we?
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Mindblowing post there. Clearly you're an intelligent dude.
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Originally Posted by adidasss
Sorry, I meant cult in the sense that it's praised by a small (usually highly pretentious) group of people. But ok, it may not have been an apt word in this case.
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I think he's almost universally praised by film buffs. He's certainly acknowledged as one of the greatest film artists of all time by most film scholars and theorists. Tarkovsky invented a new cinematic languagae. His "sculpting in time" theory was revolutionary and has been modified (and/or copied) by dozens of directors, including some of the greatest directors currently working like Bela Tarr, Aleksandr Sokurov, Andrei Zvyagintsev, and even Paul Thomas Anderson to an extent. Perhaps you're making the argument that the group of people with enough dedication to be film theorists/scholars is small, but within the group there is virtually no dissent. And from an objective standpoint there is no doubt that he is the most commericially successful Russian director since Eisenstein.