Tarkovsky on Bresson, Bach, Tolstoy, Leonardo and Shakespeare 

Bresson, Bach, Tolstoy, Da Vinci, Tarkovsky: like five fingers on a giant's hand. Thanks for the excerpts.

Dude everrrrybody says this about Bresson - I have read / watched at least 85 people make the same comments about Bresson’s perfect simplicity in cinema. It’s true

Cool last shot.

What did Tarkovsky mean by Bresson's, "asceticism?" Nice vid, I happen to be a fan of Tarkovsky.

Above all is you

Like Andrei Rublev watching the boy cast the bell--that's the distance between Tarkovsky and Bresson, et al.

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For those who find Bach, NOT SIMPLE: Perhaps, Bach parodied, mocked at and ridiculed those in Music-making and fellow humans in Life itself...presenting his music as a METAPHOR for the general tendency of nearly everyone to Complicate INSTEAD OF Simplifying... and also simultaneously taking critical potshots at his musical contemporaries practising it and critics who were wowed by such needless, excessive complexity! Even today, the Deceptively Simple and the Purely Simple are NOT accorded the recognition,respect and acclaim in any art form,also in any walk of life! But...Simplifying the Deeply Complex requires Prodigious Genius. Shakespeare had it . Antonioni had it. Rodin had it. Robert Frost had it. Bertolucci had it. Henri Verneuil had it.

Simplicity in Bach's music? He wrote the most complex counterpoints imaginable.

i will never watch a tarkovsky film. because i dont want the my imagination about how fantastical and connective his films are to be reduced.

спросил бы у Тарковского, на чём он строил свои фильмы... не на музыке ли Баха....не на живописи ли . не на устоях поэзии ли? отобразил хорошо. но не создал идею. а всех смог принизить. какое кино...очнитесь.

Pretentious as hell

You have a way with excerpts 🤌