My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Andrei Rublev (1966)

Andrei Tarkovsky, the masterful Russian director of other such boring films as Solaris and The Stalker, delivers us another slow-moving epic. To be fair though I do believe this one is actually pretty good. Yes, I strained to watch it without falling to sleep but this meditation on the life of a Russian painter from the 15th Century is beautifully captured in black and white and I thought the various chapters were memorable with stories that actually interested me. My favorite story dealt with the scenes about the making of the bell. Grade: B
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