Tom Hooper: 10 Great Films by 10 Great Directors That Inspired Me as a Teenager7 of 10
Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky
I watched this on a 3-hour VHS cassette tape when I was 12. Just as the film finally turned from black-and-white into color for its bravura climax, my tape stopped and started rewinding, and I burst into tears of frustration! This film seems to defy all the rules of the Hero's Journey and classical narrative structure, yet it is mesmerizing.
I watched this on a 3-hour VHS cassette tape when I was 12. Just as the film finally turned from black-and-white into color for its bravura climax, my tape stopped and started rewinding, and I burst into tears of frustration! This film seems to defy all the rules of the Hero's Journey and classical narrative structure, yet it is mesmerizing.