
My favorite books on filmmaking
We've watched Solaris last night and are going to talk about it tomorrow, for Mysterium Pictorum. In preparation for the podcast, I am currently reading Tarkovsky's diaries. Depressing read, somehow, with his early death and terrible fate before that looming behind all his musings on mortality, while he struggles to make the masterpieces he made, against a system that doesn't appreciate him. It's very interesting to read his opinions on then-contemporary cinema, the roots of