Tarkovsky's "Nostalghia"

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This paper discusses Russian born filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's film "Nostalghia". It is compared and contrasted with Hamid Nacify's notion of accented cinema in which culture plays a influential part in filmmaking. Tarkovsky's films are characterized by metaphysical themes, extremely long takes, and memorable images of exceptional beauty. The paper shows that recurring motifs in his films are dreams, memory, childhood, running water accompanied by fire, rain indoors, reflections, and characters re-appearing in the foreground of long panning movements of the camera.

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"Compared to other forms of art that have been around for thousands of years (i.e. paintings and drawings, cinema is relatively new and has only been around for the past century. The first films came out in the 1890s and were shown first in theatres in the United States, France, Germany, and Great Britain (Binkowski 70). By the early 1900s, the cinema had spread to all parts of the world through the development of advanced technology (Taylor 166). Watching a film at the cinema soon became one of the most popular forms of entertainment that reached audiences throughout the world in large cities and in urban sprawls."

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