20 greatest Venice film festival Golden Lion winners – ranked!
With the 80th instalment of the festival on the Lido around the corner, we sort through the winners of one of cinema’s most prestigious accolades
July 2022
If you watch only one film … the greatest movies by the greatest directors
Some directors come with such huge back catalogues that it can be hard to know where to start. Enter our film critics, who suggest the best routes in to the works of some of our most prolific film-makers
April 2021
Andrei Konchalovsky: ‘I’m very glad I failed in Hollywood’
The Russian director is back in the spotlight with the Bafta-nominated Dear Comrades! Now 83, Konchalovsky raises a cocktail glass and celebrates his freedom to call the shots
May 2020
The classic film I've never seen
I've never seen … Solaris
Tarkovsky’s mysterious epic – a response to the ‘phoniness’ of 2001: A Space Odyssey – draws you into its melancholic dreamworld superbly
October 2019
Nithurst Farm review – if Tarkovsky had a farm
The Russian director’s sci-fi classic Stalker is the unlikely inspiration for this playful, intriguing family home in the South Downs
June 2019
‘What is Solaris?’: sci-fi classic gets gender-flipped for mainstage adaptation
David Greig and Matthew Lutton take on the somewhat impregnable cult story, which premieres in Australia before transferring to Scotland
February 2019
Observer European film
Europe in 25 films: the critics’ choice
The must-see movies that have defined a century of European cinema, as chosen by the Observer’s film writers
September 2018
Elena Ferrante’s Weekend column
Elena Ferrante: ‘Solaris is not Tarkovsky’s best film, but it made the greatest impression on me’
Solaris is astonishing because the book that inspired it doesn’t seem to contain Tarkovsky’s film
August 2016
Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroid photographs to be auctioned
Haunting images shot by Solaris director in Russia and Italy to be sold at Bonhams and could fetch up to £500,000
July 2016
My morning with Anton Yelchin: 'I have an overabundance of emotion'
In an interview conducted at Cannes last year to promote the acclaimed drama Green Room, the actor was in expansive mood, talking of his kinship with Russian literature, revulsion for Nazis – and his favourite punk rockers
Andrei Tarkovsky: it's time to immerse yourself in the work of a true auteur
July 2015
New East network
Russian film studio hopes to take on Hollywood after £300m investment
Studio behind greatest Soviet movies gets new lease of life thanks to hefty investment from former Putin deputy. The Moscow Times reports
June 2015
Radiant State by Peter Higgins review – an exceptional fantasy
This triumphant conclusion to the Wolfhound Century trilogy channels the violence, mythology and poetry of Russian history
April 2015
New East network
Seven Soviet sci-fi films everyone should see
From Tarkovsky to the ‘godfather of Star Wars’, The Calvert Journal looks back at the finest examples of Soviet futurism
December 2013
Top 10...
Top 10 biopics
Cinema has always liked telling a good life story, and all kinds of biography – from the humblest to the starriest – have been given a filmic going-over. The Guardian and Observer's critics pick the 10 best in a very crowded field
October 2013
Film blog
Top 10 arthouse movies
Top 10...
Top 10 sci-fi movies
March 2013
Post Tenebras Lux – review
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
Poem of the week: The snow whirls over the courtyard's roses by Tua Forsström
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aka IVANO DETSTVO
NIKOLAI BURLYAYEV](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/60eb05e2f2307f5609a8de9096258731b7c1e86e/0_190_2816_1690/2816.jpg?width=460&dpr=2&s=none&crop=none)
