Zona (16 page)
Nathan Dunne (ed.),
Tarkovsky
(London: Black Dog, 2008).
John Gianvito (ed.),
Andrei Tarkovsky Interviews
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006).
Vida T. Johnson and Graham Petrie,
The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
Mark Le Fanu,
The Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky
(London: BFI, 1987).
Marina Tarkovskaya (ed.),
About Andrei Tarkovsky: Memoirs and Biographies
(Moscow: Progress Publishing, 1990).
Notes
There are some unacknowledged quotations and misquotations in the text. Sources for these are listed here, along with the ones that were conventionally presented.
‘
THE WORST OF HIS FILMS
,’ etc.: interview with Maria Chugnova in Tarkovsky,
Time Within Time.
‘
A RING AT THE DOOR
’: Edmond and Jules de Goncourt,
Pages from the Goncourt Journals,
edited by Robert Baldick (New York: NYRB Classics, 2007).
‘
IF THE REGULAR LENGTH
’: quoted by Vladimir Goldstein in Nathan Dunne (ed.),
Tarkovsky.
‘
A LITTLE MORE DYNAMIC
’: quoted by Evgeny Tsymbal in Dunne, ibid.
‘
I THINK THAT
’: Tarkovsky,
Sculpting in Time.
‘
NINETY MINUTES OF SITTING
’: Richard Price,
Clockers
(London: Bloomsbury, 2003; first published 1992).
‘
THE WORLD OUTSIDE
’: Anne Applebaum,
Gulag: A History
(New York: Doubleday, 2003).
‘
A WAY OF LIFE
’: Tony Judt,
Postwar
(London: Heinemann, 2005).
‘
THE SOVIET REPRESSIVE SYSTEM
’: Applebaum,
Gulag.
‘
HE’S SUCH A
’: Mick Jagger, quoted in Peter Doggett,
There’s a Riot Going On
(Edinburgh: Canongate, 2007.
‘
TOTALLY OUT OF IT
’: Vladimir Sharun, interview at nostalghia.com.
‘
A MAN’S WORK
’: Albert Camus,
Selected Essays and Notebooks
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984).
‘
MEN SWAGGERING INTO SALOONS
’: Don DeLillo,
Libra
(New York: Viking, 1988).
‘
A BOOK ABOUT NOTHING
’:
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830- 1857,
edited by Francis Steegmuller (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980).
‘
RIGHT IN THE EYES
’: Roland Barthes,
The Responsibility of Forms
(New York: Hill and Wang, 1985).
‘
DID NOT MAKE
SOLARIS
’: Stanislaw Lem, quoted in Robert Bird,
Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema.
‘
ON THE THRESHOLD
’: Roberto Calasso,
K.
(New York: Knopf, 2005).
‘
SOMEONE EMBARKS
’: Billy Collins,
Sailing Around the Room
(New York: Random House, 2001).
‘
BEGAN TO MAKE FILMS
’: Ingmar Bergman, quoted in
Rerberg and Tarkovsky: The Reverse Side of ‘Stalker’
(film).
‘
USING SOME OF HIS TYPICAL
’: Wim Wenders,
The Act of Seeing
(London: Faber & Faber, 1997).
‘
TO BEGIN TWO CONSECUTIVE
’: Anthony Hecht, quoted in Christopher Ricks,
True Friendship
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).
‘
HAPPY THE HARE
’:
The English Auden,
edited by Edward Mendelson (London: Faber & Faber, 1977.
‘
MAKE VISIBLE WHAT
’: Robert Bresson,
Notes on the Cinematographer
(London: Quartet Books, 1986).
ROAD TRIP
: I got the story about Tarkovsky and the road trip through Utah from Tom Luddy himself. It is broadly corroborated by Zanussi’s reminiscences in Marina Tarkovskaya (ed.),
About Andrei Tarkovsky: Memoirs and Biographies.
‘
THE UNHOMELY
’: Martin Heidegger,
Introduction to Metaphysics
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).
‘
RASHIT, THE FLOWERS
’: Georgi Rerberg in
Rerberg and Tarkovsky: The Reverse Side of ‘Stalker’
(film).
AN AMAZING PLACE
…
IS NORMAL HERE:
slightly adapted from Roberto Calasso,
Ka
(New York: Knopf, 1998).
‘
PUTTING ITSELF IN A PERSONAL RELATION
’: William James,
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
(New York: The Modern Library, 1999; first published 1902).
‘
SOBBING UNCONTROLLABLY
’: J. M. Coetzee,
Diary of a Bad Year
(London: Harvill Secker, 2007).
‘
THIS IS WHAT EXISTS
’: Max Frisch, quoted in Hans Magnus Enzensberger,
Civil War
(London: Granta, 1994).
ROBERT POLIDORI
and
JONAS BENDIKSEN
: see, respectively, Zones of
Exclusion
(Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2003) and
Satellites
(New York: Aperture, 2006).
‘
WHAT CONFERS ON IT
’: Slavoj Žižek, ‘The Thing from Inner
Space’. It seems there are various different versions of this essay floating around. The one quoted from here can be found at
http:// www.lacan.com/zizekthing.htm
(September 1999).
‘
THEY FED IT
’: for German original, see
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke,
edited by Stephen Mitchell (New York: Vintage International, 1989). Translation by Shaun Whiteside.
SCIENTISTS WHO CARRIED OUT
:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
science-environment-10819027.
‘
BEYOND A CERTAIN POINT
’: quoted in Roberto Calasso,
K.
(New York: Knopf, 2005). This translation suited me better than Michael Hofmann’s in
Zürau Aphorisms
(New York: Schocken, 2006).
‘
FEEL…THAT THE ZONE
’: Tarkovsky,
Sculpting in Time.
‘
ONCE I WAS A MAN
’: Maurice Merleau-Ponty,
Phenomenology of Perception
(London: Routledge Classics, 2002,).
NOT A SET OF EVENTS:
adapted from David Abram,
The Spell of the Sensuous
(New York: Vintage, 1997). I am indebted to Abram more generally for my discussion of the Zone and the sudden gust of wind in this section.
‘
HAS NO MEANING IN ITSELF
’: Milan Kundera,
Immortality
(London: Faber & Faber, 1991).
‘
SHOULD DOUBT…THE EXISTENCE
’: Tarkovsky, interview with Guerra at
nostalghia.com
.
‘
THE IMAGE BECOMES
’: Tarkovsky,
Sculpting in Time.
‘
OVER AND OVER
’:
Andrei Tarkovsky Interviews,
edited by John Gianvito.
‘
A LIFE OF WHICH THE KEYNOTE
’: William James,
The Varieties of Religious Experience.
‘
SUDDENLY ONE OF
’: Vladimir Sharun, interview at nostalghia .com.
‘
TOTAL DISASTER
’: Tarkovsky,
Time Within Time.
‘
A RIGID IDEA
’: Evgeny Tsymbal in Dunne,
Tarkovsky.
‘
EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT
’: Tarkovsky,
Time Within Time.
‘
HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND
’: Vladimir Sharun, interview at nostalghia.com.
‘
KALASHNIKOV REFUSED’
and ‘
HE DIDN’T HAVE THE GUTS
’: Tarkovsky,
Time Within Time.
‘
ALMOST VISUALLY IDENTICAL
’: Maria Chugunova, quoted by Tsymbal, in Dunne,
Tarkovsky.
‘
LACKED SIMPLICITY
’: Ibid.
‘
LIGHTWEIGHT SHALLOW PEOPLE
’: Tarkovsky,
Time Within Time.
‘
FOR BEHAVING LIKE A BASTARD
’: Ibid.
‘
BUT AT THE COST
’: from
Rerberg and Tarkovsky: Reverse Side of ‘Stalker’
(film).
‘
A CORPSE
’: Tarkovsky,
Time Within Time.
‘
INVINCIBLE
’:
Andrei Tarkovsky Interviews,
edited by John Gianvito.
‘
YOU ARE DISTINGUISHED
’: Alexander Galich, quoted in Lesley Chamberlain,
Motherland
(London: Atlantic, 2004).
‘
THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT
’: Robert Bird,
Andrei Tarkovsky.
‘
THERE REALLY IS
’: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky,
Roadside Picnic
(London: Gollancz, 2007; translation first published 1977).
‘
UP THE RIVER
’: Vladimir Sharun, interview at
nostalghia.com
.
‘
TO EVERY NATURAL
’: Wordsworth, from
The Prelude: A Parallel Text,
edited by J. C. Maxwell (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972).
‘
I SEE AROUND ME
’:
The Selected Poetry and Prose of Wordsworth,
edited by Geoffrey Hartman (New York: Signet Classics, 1970).
‘
THE THEN IS CONSTANTLY REPEATED
’: Thomas Mann,
The Magic Mountain
(New York: Vintage, 1996).
‘
SOME KIND OF DRUG DEALER
’: Tarkovsky,
Time Within Time.
‘
WHERE ART IS DYING
’: Milan Kundera,
Encounter
(London: Faber & Faber, 2010).
‘
IF AT THE END
’: quoted in Robert Bird,
Andrei Tarkovsky.
‘
EVERYTHING ON EARTH
’: Ibid.
‘
PERHAPS WE ARE
HERE
’: for German original, see
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke,
edited by Stephen Mitchell. Translation by Shaun Whiteside.
‘
CAME TO FEEL
’: Lesley Chamberlain,
Motherland.
‘
IN THE RIVER
’:
Andrei Tarkovsky Interviews,
edited by John Gianvito.
NOTHING ON THE WALLS BUT DAMP
: adapted from Wislawa Szymborska’s poem ‘Cave’, in
Poems New and Collected 1957-1997
(London: Faber & Faber, 1999).
‘
UTTERLY NEW TERRAIN
’: Wim Wenders,
The Act of Seeing.
‘
THE DARKNESS GREW LOUD
’: William Langewiesche,
American Ground: The Unbuilding of the World Trade Center
(New York: North Point, 2002).
‘
SHOOTING IS GOING OUT
’: Robert Bresson,
Notes on the Cinematographer.
‘
I SAW TARKOVSKY’S STALKER
’: Tilda Swinton, http://www.movie line.com/2009/05/tilda-swinton-i-think-youve-got-the-wrong-person.php.
‘
THERE OUGHT TO BE IN PARIS
’: Robert Bresson,
Notes on the Cinematographe.
‘
FROM WHERE ELSE
’: John Berger,
Keeping a Rendezvous
(Harmondsworth: Granta, 1992).
‘
ENTIRE LIFE HAS CONSISTED
’: Tarkovsky, quoted in Robert Bird,
Andrei Tarkovsky.
‘
SUBSEQUENT FILM
’: Tarkovsky,
Time Within Time.
‘
I’M REDUCED TO
’: Tarkovsky,
Sculpting in Time.
‘
A TEST
’: (‘that results in a man either withstanding or breaking. Whether a man survives or not depends on his sense of individual worth, his ability to distinguish what is important from what is transitory.’): Tarkovsky, quoted in Robert Bird,
Andrei Tarkovsky.
‘
AN INFINITE, IF DANK ENCLOSURE
’: David Thomson,
Have You Seen…
? (London: Allen Lane, 2008).
‘
THE BELIEVER WILL OPEN
’: Alan Watts,
The Wisdom of Insecurity
(New York: Pantheon, 1951).
‘
IS FAITH IN HOPE
’: Miguel de Unamuno,
Tragic Sense of Life
(New York: Dover, 1954).
‘
PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING
’: Carl Jung,
Psychology and Alchemy
(London: Roudedge & Kegan Paul, 1953).
‘
THE EYE WANTS TO SLEEP
’: James Tate, ‘Absences’,
Selected Poems
(Manchester: Carcanet, 1997).
‘
MY DISCOVERY
’: Ingmar Bergman, at nostalghia.com.
‘
EVERY TIME IT WAS
’: Safiullin, interview, bonus extra, on
Stalker
DVD.
‘
THE GREATER THE DEGREE
,’
ETC
.: Nadezhda Mandelstam,
Hope Against Hope: A Memoir,
translated by Max Hayward (London: Harvill, 1999; first published 1971).
‘
THE POINT OF ROOMS
’: Don DeLillo,
White Noise
(London: Picador, 1985).
‘
EACH ONE OF US
’: John Berger and Nella Bielski,
A Question of Geography
(London: Faber & Faber, 1987).
‘
I COMPLETELY AGREE
’: Tarkovsky, from an interview with Aldo Tassone at
nostalghia.com
. Translated slightly differently in
Andrei Tarkovsky Interviews,
edited by John Gianvito; ‘
THE ZONE DOESN’T
’: interview with Laurence Cossé, ibid.
‘
EVERYTHING, AFTER PASSING THROUGH
’: Miguel de Unamuno,
Tragic Sense of Life.
(In the English edition—translated from the Spanish—the first use of ‘film’ is given as ‘cinematograph show’; hence the change!)
‘
THE EXCELLENT ACTING OF THE DOG
’: Kenzaburo Oë,
A Quiet Life
(London: Picador, 1998).
‘
PLANTS AND ANIMALS
’: Bélas Balázs, quoted in Robert Bird,
Andrei Tarkovsky.
‘
POSING
’: Donatas Banionis, quoted in Bird, ibid..
‘
FANTASTIC DOG
’: Knyazhinsky, interview, bonus extra, on
Stalker DVD.
‘
ONLY THAT WHICH
’: Tarkovsky, interview with Guerra at
nostalghia.com
.
‘
MAKE THE OBJECTS LOOK
’: Robert Bresson,
Notes on the Cinematographer.