He is the greatest filmmaker to me, Mirror is my all time favorite piece of art. A fairly short filmography but pretty much full of masterpieces, even his documentary and student films are brilliant. Nobody offers similar atmospheres and emotions. I am completely atheistic, but his films are the closest that I've ever felt to a spiritual experience lol

These director ranking videos are so great. I'd love for you to talk about Akira Kurosawa, David Lynch, and Martin Scorsese when you have the chance. As for Tarkovsky, I've only seen Solaris and Stalker, both of which I loved. I need to seek out the rest of his filmography

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A film professor I had at uni told a great story about Stalker. He invited all his friends over to watch Stalker and he said about 30-40 minutes in everyone but him was asleep. But he emphasised that was okay and that being sometimes bored is not a bad thing. I think about that often.

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Glad to see you agree that The Sacrifice is top tier Tarkovsky. I was fortunate enough to see it in a theater recently and it confirmed for me that it's not only my favorite from him, but one of my favorite films of all time. Such a moving film that deals with religion, philosophy, and survival in an incredibly unique way.

I watched Mirror on psychedelics once. I cried through most of it. Its the closest a film has ever come to pure poetry in my eyes. But things like that are hugely subjective, so I can understand it not hitting the same way for everyone. Every Tarkovsky film is a masterpiece. Speaking of the world of Bergman, The Sacrifice was also shot by Sven Nykvest, Bergman's go to cinematographer.

it would be awesome to see you rank the films of jacques tati! i’m currently going through his filmography and loving it.

Tarkovsky is one of my favourite directors and for me personally Nostalgia is his best film. Even though it is not his last, it kind of feels like a reflection of all his previous work.

Loved hearing your thoughts! You put it beautifully about Stalker, that it makes you temporarily believe in magic. I think tarkovsky is very good at this-- communicating that art is a form of mysticism, and a spiritual experience in itself. As for another director, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Cassavetes!

I absolutely agree Stalker is number one. The climax of that film is so low-key but so, so powerful. It did something to me that no film has ever done before or since, and I still can't explain that feeling years later. You said it makes you feel like magic exists and I completely agree. Tarkovsky isn't my favourite filmmaker, but the man had something you just couldn't teach. And I would absolutely love to see a Kurosawa ranking.

I was really hoping to see more on Stalker after the recent skit on it! It's such a bizarre movie, I love how much faith Tarkovsky puts in his audience and how involved I felt watching it. If anyone's looking for something with similar vibes, I can't recommend the novel Annihilation enough

When you are going through a spiritual or mental battle, Stalker just hits different. Stalker is my favorite movie by him.

this was an extremely pleasant surprise, I really enjoyed hearing your takes on these films! Solaris was the first Tarkovsky movie i had seen, a few years ago when i was just starting college. shortly after, I watched Stalker. both films changed my perspective on life. also, as you were explaining Stalker, i realized that it’s magical world building is very similar to Annihilation i would love to see future vids on the works of the Coen Bros, David Lynch, John Carpenter, and David Cronenberg! would also love to see some reviews of films i cherish such as Mandy and Drive

Hey Jake! Not sure if you've played it yet, but I recommend you seek out Pentiment. While obviously a big influence for it is Name of the Rose, Josh Sawyer (the game's director) also mentioned Andrei Rublev as an inspiration, which becomes especially apparent in the characterization of its protagonist and in the third act. Well worth a go! I'll let the low placement of Mirror slide... 😛

Stop it. You’re already pretty much my favorite KZfaqr. Then you casually drop (by drop I mean carry) a Tarkovsky ranking video? Dude! Stop it!! I’m already sold!

Jake has the Leslie Nielsen effect on me now. I click on the videos without really reading the title or what it's about, and for the first 30 seconds I'm not quite sure if he's talking nonsense or making a serious video. :D However, a Tarkovsky ranking video is a great idea and I want to stress that I enjoy watching his book and film videos at least as much as the comedy stuff! If not more!

Great video! I love Tarkovsky films, and it was interesting to see your takes! My favorite is Andrei Rublev, I liked Nostalghia but could see why some people wouldn't like it. Anyway, you should definitely rank some more filmmakers!

My favorite part of Stalker is the trip on the rail car going to the zone.

Pretty much agree with Stalker and Sacrifice at the top. I have a found spot for Rublev. That ending man. With regards to you revisiting it, I can tell you that each year for the feast of St Andrei Rublev, I try to watch it, and every time I get something new and different out of it. I think it's just how great artistic works are: they have such depth you can always bring back new and fresh water out of them like some kind of magical well.

Stalker is one of my favorite movies. I liked Mirror and Nostalghia, but with the rest I struggled. Since you mentioned De Palma, would love to see your ranking of his films.

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Ivan's Childhood is one of the best war movies of all time up there with Come and and See and The Thin Red Line

Mirror is my favourite, effected me emotionally and the way the camera floats through the movie is so cool

Would love to hear your thoughts on David Lynch’s filmography. Great video and a phenomenal filmmaker. Love these ranking videos!

Stalker is special, even in Tarkovsky's filmography. I actualy really like Nostalgia. I would love to see ranking of Sergio Leone's movies.

It's quite amazing how much your ranking and interpretations align with mine. Replace Sacrifice with Ivan's Childhood on the 3rd place and put Solaris as 2nd instead of Rublev. But then again, you very rightfully stated that our opinions/experiences watching movies are highly influenced by our headspace at the time. Just like you said about Mirror. Subconsciously I was very impressed with the movie, I felt the presence of Tarkovsky right there on screen, I was mesmerized and intrigued... But it wasn't quite the same as with Stalker, which is my strong favorite. Stalker just happens to have checked so many boxes for me; the ambience of a spiritual journey, power of the philosophical dialogue and subtle meanings, superb acting and tention between characters at the end, stunning visuals. I don't know, some things just have to be experienced. Just like the Writer said in the movie: "These are all rather intangible things: once you label them, their meaning vanishes, dissolves, evaporates... much like a jellyfish under the sun". Thanks a lot for your video! It was so cool to discover someone who has very similar takes on Tarkovsky films as me!

Now we need to see your Bergman list!

he never misses! oh sorry wrong channel

I've only seen Stalker and Solaris, both are good

Great video!

great video! just curious, have you considered ranking david lynch at some point? i'd love to see that!

Stalker is, in my mind, one of the very few films that can actually genuinely be considered as high art. The way in which Tarkovsky is able to poetically communicate so many ideas and concepts so ambiguously and effortlessly is genuinely absurd. He definitely, at the very least, matched 2001 in that aspect.

for me personally, A.Rublev made me think the most, and Ivan's Childhood gave me the most beautiful and most scary scenes I ever watched

Solaris and Andrei Rublev are among the greatest handful of films ever. Mirror is also great but is sometimes self-absorbed. These are Tarkovsky's three best.

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Having only seen Stalker my opinion only matters so much, but I figured I'd share my two cents in agreeing with you on it's transcendence: In a nutshell, as someone who's lived with fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue for a couple of years to the degree of it being a disability and completely destabilizing my life, I really resonate with the moment when the characters are very much in the Zone, about an hour and a half in, already having braved the potential death around them and existential decay, and that basically the Stalker takes a nap. He lays his head down on that rock. We see that shifting ground, water covered in vegetation so that the very earth feels filled with spirit. The dancing of the dust above it, the spirit throughout all of nature. We hear that small *plink* of water droplets... as though the water is slowly dripping off of God's feet onto the marble... it just feels so immanent. I can't remember the words exactly but the vagueness of 'the mighty men all screaming out... please hide us from the wrath of the lamb, and who will be able to stand?' I have felt like I wasn't able to stand. All of it is so fearsome and beautiful and strange and so delicate. It's a dream. The intensity of it all being buffered by the subconscious of it all. It's the Pathfinder dreaming. I don't have much of a greater point beyond how much being sick and struggling to get through the day aligns with the strangeness of the space that we are taken through. No matter where you are in that struggle, at some point you will lay your head down and rest, often right in the midst of deep pain. I find that very beautiful and encouraging. Someone else pointed out a brilliant part of the symbology in that dream, as the camera pans over dirty pool, it is filled with symbols of man's achievements, all fading away - but as the whispering poetry says this refrain about those trying to hide, those unable to stand, we see this bowl filled with fish. They are in the water that holds all of these faded symbols... and yet they are stuck in the bowl. This is such a brilliant symbol of man's consciousness, that he may be dwelling on an ideology that is not 'living' anymore, it's important to note there are even religious symbols and icons in this pool. Man is a part of the universal water of consciousness, and yet finds himself apart. Whether he put himself there or not is unclear. That's just a small part of what makes this film brilliant.

BRO WTFFFFFF MIRROR IN 5. But, amazing video 🤝

Definitely recommend that you check out Nostalghia again. I think it’s one of his most thematically and philosophical important.

He never misses, the absolute legend! Also Stalker is the GOAT.

The Sacrifice is such a perfect and special movie and Nostalgia left me speechless like no other movie I’ve ever seen

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Do Billy Wilder! I feel like the old school Hayes-code era Hollywood filmmakers aren't talked about as much.

Mirror is one of the greatest films I have ever seen. Tarkovsky was genius like no other.

Though I only watched Stalker but was so shocked as I remembered and felt like I somehow fallen into some rabbit hole as the three explorers. Can’t agree more with what you felt and the comments.

Could you make a video about the ending of Sunset Blvd?

good video, my ranking would probably go like this (i am yet to see Andrei Rublev, i kinda want to leave the epic for a good moment when i have the time to concentrate to the whole thing.) 1. The Sacrifice 2. Nostalghia 3. Solaris 4. Stalker 5. Ivan's Childhood 6. The Steamroller and the Violin 7. Mirror 8. There Will Be No Leave Today

Listen man, I've been watching these rankings for some time now and I would absolutely love if you could make a David Fincher ranking, he's my favourite director and I would love it if you could

I could understand why The Mirror is not someone's cup of tea. But I was deeply affected and moved by it. After the movie ended I just went and hugged my mother.

You should make a Coen Brothers ranked!

I’d love to see John Cassavetes or the works written by Charlie Kaufman next

Do you know Robert Bresson? He comes in second place of favorite filmmakers right behind Tarkovsky. Another legend in pushing cinema as an important art medium, and Tarkovsky said Bresson served as an influence for him. His films aren't as entrancing or ethereal as Tarkovsky's, but his films speak to the immensity of the world all the same, even if with colder methods. Bresson said that for him the only way to achieve something hot it must be done cooly, and that's reflected in his films perfectly. I highly reccomend reading on him and watching his films and would love to see a ranking on him!

Great video. I'd love to hear your thoughts on Dario Argento.

Great stuff. Tarkovsky is the greatest. Stalker seems to me to encompass everything of importance, man's difficult place in our modern dystopic world, our deep yearning for things mystical, the tripartite nature of the soul, life as struggle and movement towards God, etc. For me there is a deep sense of liturgical action in the combination of shared vision and intent they have following this bizarre non-linear path to the room, which like the divine liturgy really does pull you into another order of reality. A piece of it's own, a perfect film. My ranking 7 Ivan's Childhood 6 Solaris (I agree with you that the earth sequence is my favourite in this film) 5 Nostalgia (I think I know what you mean with it not landing quite right but the sequence with the Madonna and the birds is amazing and the sequence with the candle is perhaps his greatest but it otherwise feels muddled) 4 Mirror 3 The Sacrifice 2 Andrei Rublev 1 Stalker I am a convert to Catholicism and feel indebted to Tarkovsky for helping to plant the seed.

As someone who enjoys both Tarkovsky and Bergman, I don’t see Sacrifice as a Bergman-esque Tarkovsky film. I knew Sven Nykvist - Bergman’s regular cinematographer - was also the cinematographer for this film. And I also knew Erland Josephson had appeared in many Bergman’s films. But, Sacrifice still feels 100% Tarkovsky. The long shots, the dialogues, the metaphysical imagery, those are characteristically him, not Bergman.

I noticed that for some reason The Mirror movie is much more accessible for Russian (of post-Soviet) audience, than for the Western audience.

Good video

If you see Roublev again you might change your mind , like you said - it is a profound moment , just like you said

I tend to rank Tarkovsky films based on the order i last watched them. (Except Stalker is always number 1, and i just watched it again two day ago) Stalker Sacrifice The Mirror Nostalghia Andrei Rublev Solaris

I kept waiting and waiting on where would you rank Dersu Uzala before remembering that it was actually a Kurosawa joint. Still baffles me how he made a Russian speaking film in a Soviet era (or any) Russia. In any case, it's one of the best bromance movies I've seen.

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Not sure if your a Malick head, but it would be great to see you rank Terrance Malick.

please do a video on Alejandro Jodorowsky

would love to see a wong kar ranking or michael haneke

Very nice. I get what you mean about Mirror, I think if you didn't live through that period in Russian history then the lived experience just isn't there to fully relate to it. My favourites are The Sacrifice, Andrei Rublev and Solaris. Have you considered checking out Theo Angelopoulos? Although there are notable differences, he is the only filmmaker I've seen comparable to Tarkovsky (slow, long takes, poetic visuals, etc., but much focuses more on Greek history instead of religion).

Yooo we need some Bergman ranked video, cause theres not like a really good one on YT

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Just started watching Tarantino movies (Pulp Fiction, Revervoir Dogs, and now Hateful 8) so if you have seen enough of his films i would be interested in ehat you think of them

Very good. Here's mine... 7) Andrei Rublev 6) Ivan's Childhood 5) Sacrifice 4) Nostalgia 3) Stalker 2) Solaris 1) The Mirror

Man, would you consider doing the films of Hayao Miyazaki?

I thought I didn’t like Mirror when I first watched it but then I kept wanting to watch it again. That says something.

I would love a Gus Van Sant ranking

The Grey room makes your hair look Grey. I was almost confused like "why does he look old, is it a joke or skit?"

For me, I would rank them: 1) Solaris 2) Stalker 3) Nostalghia 4) Mirror * 5) Andrei Rublev 6) The Sacrifice 7) Ivan's Childhood *3 & 4 are interchangeable. Nostalgia might be slightly more rewatchable, but Mirror is the better movie. Normally I hate to "suggest" things for content creators to do, but since you asked for suggestions, maybe a ranking of Bergman, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar-Wai, Godard, Kevin Smith, maybe Fincher? Hal Ashby, Woody Allen, maybe Kurosawa? Perhaps Sam Peckinpah?

Switch Mirror with Sacrifice, and that's my ranking of his movies!

Every film of his is an 8+, but for me there's still two tiers of his filmography. Mirror is one of the greatest films of all time, it's one of those extremely few movies that are like no other. Andrei Rublev is up there as well, and The Sacrifice is probably up there as well though I need to rewatch it, but I love the Bergman feel of it merged with his own thing. Nostalgia and Ivan's Childhood are very good but I wasn't as engaged as with the previously mentioned. Then there is Stalker and Solaris, honestly I don't get the "one of the best films ever" and "rival to 2001: A Space Odyssey" hype. Talking about philosophy and the human experience doesn't mean that it translates to a movie with the same profound qualities. You didn't mention the source material for those two, but they're superior as far as I'm concerned (as far as you can compare different art forms). The look of Stalker is obviously great, and I love the look of Solaris when on earth, the highway scene I particularly remember, but the station just feels very cheap. But as I said, I still think they're very good films. He's got the most consistently great filmography of any director that I've stumbled upon anyway, so there's very few filmmakers I hold above him. Now I want a Bergman Ranking :)

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I'm a big fan of him too bro😊

As a Nostalghiahead, this ranking is blasphemous. But in all seriousness, I agree with just about everything you said in this video. Especially towards the end. Tarkovsky really is in a league of his own.

Talking about numbers, you should collab with numberphile. On what exactly, I have no idea.

Alexander Payne has a fantastic filmography and/or Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jake I just watched Andrei Rublev and to put it simply, I didn’t get it. And I didn’t really see the point

Judd Apatow ranked next pls

I literally just finished watching andrei tarkovsky filmography

Can’t believe you forgot Samurai Jack💧

are you familiar with the works of wong kar wai or jacques demy?

Please do Tarantino at some point 🙏

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I wonder if you’re familiar with the films of Bela Tarr? Perhaps my favorite filmmaker, more so even than Tarkovsky, Bergman, and Malick, though his films are deeply challenging. I don’t know. When I meet someone who appreciates or even loves Tarkovsky, I wonder if they would or do also appreciate Tarr.

Make a Bergman list

Could you do Miyazaki films?

Love the director rankings! You should do fincher

Alright now you really have to do David Lynch

Not to mention him making these movies in Soviet Union, the country notoriously open to risky and abstract ideas and of individual expression of freedom and creativity in art...

Pauly Shore movies ranked when?

Why so this channel is for real?

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The first and only Tarkovsky I've ever watched is The Sacrifice. I watched it when I was 16. Bad idea.

You need to make it more obvious that you have a second channel because I never knew before now

You don't watch the films by Tarkovskij, you experience them. No one makes movies like he did