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S4E12.5: Andrei Rublev
🕑 Added 2025-04-25 16:00:00 +0000 UTCNeatly positioned between Transporter 1 and 2 in our release schedule here is a movie that frequently sees mention in conversations about the 'greatest movies ever made': Andrei Tarkovsky's 1966 biographical historical epic 'Andrei Rublev'.
Andrei Rublev, since canonised by the eastern orthodox church, was an icon painter who lived in the 1400s near Moscow. Little is known of his actual life, so what Tarkovsky gives us is instead a fictionalised biography set against the backdrop of a realistic 15th-century Russia.
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Comments
Spidlerlope
Probably somewhere but this really reminds me of Job and his buddies going around gesturing at what "G-D" intends and means.
Damien Tonkin
It's slightly embarrassing that I came out raging against AI art but more so for the world than me.
Damien Tonkin
I actually just came out during a discussion of the meaning of art and expression during times of strife and oppression so this episode is kind of a lot.
Larketto
Oh, might I also add: Russian Orthodox church has recently pushed to moved the most famous Rublev icon - The Trinity - from the gallery where it has been kept safely to a church and of course the 600-old.icon is already showing the signs of deteriorating. The Orthodox church and the state are one and the same and that's why it should be destroyed and Bolsheviks were indecisive and messed up by allowing the Patriarchate to be restored.
PG
Found this very moving as someone who is in the final stages of a big creative project, nauseous from the we’re so back / it’s so over rollercoaster… thank you for making me cry on my commute
Hadyn H. Gay Abbeysme
Speaking of sexy witches you'd hate to tie you up... You should take a look at The Love Witch by Annie Biller !! Possibly the cuntiest horror/occult film ever made and a perfect palate cleanser post-religion season
sack full of molotovs
Off I go to scold the supreme court. That was the word, right?
Evie K
You didn't draft us Abi. I'd been on HRT 12 months before I ever saw your work. But the Prince was the first time I saw a trans character, portrayed accurately and positively by a trans actor, writen by a trans writer. It made me feel seen and understood in a way no media ever had before, and in that moment I realised what I had been denied my whole life, by a society that doesn't want me to exist. The world is beter for having you're art in it. Your art has literally saved my life at least once, and every day it inspires me to keep working on my own bell. You didn't draft us, we were all born into this fight, none of us chose it. All you ever did was hold a light in the darkness and remind us that we could fight back, even if only by coming out and being ourselves. Existence is residence, and your art has helped so many of us keep existing.
