Question by Alexander the Great: Is Andrei Tarkovsky the greatest filmmaker of all time?
Does any filmmaker possess the acute ability to generate a wide spectrum of emotions from the audience, and then, when most vulnerable, with the force of ten, iron-clad, stampeding elephants, surge them, with meticulous precision, greater than Tarkovsky? I am specifically reflecting upon his composition of a Bruguel (The Hunters in the Snow) reminiscent scene, which evokes nostalgia of innocence and purity (children ice-skating), helplessly crushed by subsequent, adverse, and devastating historical footage of Hitler and Mao (impending doom of starvation after hunters return weak and feeble from an unsuccessful hunt), in “The Mirror”.
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Answer by icekey87
Eh, he’s okay.
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beatle1909 says
With all due respect, I'll stay with Fellini, and Bergmann.
tonino124 says
all my compliments for your acknowledgement of this huge filmaker you are so in love with.
but i think there are so many "genius" due to deserve this achievement….Kubrick for instance…De Sica, Rossellini….Welles….it's impossible to choose only one of them.
Probably others will share your choice.
goodbye from Italy