i mean, parajanov on the big screen sounds fucking awesome!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
I first saw The Colour of Pomegranates on a dbl bill with Tarkovsky's Stalker at The Scala in Kings Cross - those were the days!
Because the filmography is so small, I think he's one of those people who never made a 'bad' film - it's all of interest.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/58hoktsqk_Q
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 19 September 2020 13:01 (three years ago) link
yeah just a few subtle allusions
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 19 September 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link
https://en.armradio.am/2024/01/09/sergei-parajanovs-statue-unveiled-in-yerevan/
Apparently never had a statue before
― anvil, Thursday, 11 January 2024 10:29 (three months ago) link
I wouldn't have expected it, but there are two other public statues of him depicted on his Wikipedia page!
Interesting to learn from that same source that at some point Pasolini was a major inspiration for him, I can see elements of Edipo Re in Sayat Nova for example.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 11 January 2024 16:37 (three months ago) link
The past -- from medieval to antiquity -- as an insight into what can be said about their present is something that looks to be common to both.
Imagined losses.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 January 2024 21:15 (three months ago) link