Browning Cinema
MFA Students Pick Some Films for Us to Watch
Directed by Arseniy Tarkovskiy
With Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev
Not Rated, 107 minutes, DCP
In Russian and Spanish with English subtitles
Introductory reading by Tim Morrison!
A senses-ravishing odyssey through the halls of time and memory, Andrei Tarkovsky's sublime reflection on 20th century Russian history is as much a film as it is a poem composed in images, as much a work of cinema as it is a hypnagogic hallucination. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystic power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics upon its release due to its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the titan 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.
Co-presented by the Creative Writing Department and the Meg and John P. Brogan Endowment for Classic Cinema.
Event Dates
Thursday, October 8, 2026 - 9:30 PM
