Press Release Criterion Press Release: Mirror (1975) (Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

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A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, this sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history by Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker) is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work of cinema. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics on its release because of its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the director’s most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen.

FILM INFO​

• Andrei Tarkovsky
• Russia
• 1975
• 106 minutes
• Black and White/Color
• 1.37:1
• Russian
• Spine #1084

SPECIAL FEATURES​

• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer, a 2019 documentary about the director by his son Andrei A. Tarkovsky
• The Dream in the Mirror, a new documentary by Louise Milne and Seán Martin
• New interview with composer Eduard Artemyev
• Islands: Georgy Rerberg, a 2007 documentary about the cinematographer
• Archival interviews with Tarkovsky and screenwriter Alexander Misharin
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by critic Carmen Gray and, for the Blu-ray, the 1968 film proposal and literary script by Tarkovsky and Misharin that they ultimately developed into Mirror
  
  New cover design by Nessim Higson

PURCHASE OPTIONS​

Coming soon, available Jul 6, 2021
BLU-RAY2 Discs$31.96SRP: $39.95
DVD2 Discs$23.96SRP: $29.95

 

[Ronald Epstein]

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[darkrock17]

I know about this movie by the old TCM Imports promo that featured clips from this film, most notably the burning cabin.

 

[ArtyWhy]

The burning cabin clip is taken from "The Sacrifice", but they are both great movies.