Work; Photography; Press; About . Each of them separately has contributed immeasurably to cinematic art and to Art and Philosophy in general . Two cinematic giants, side by side. VUGAR EFENDI. Andrei Tarkovsky and Stanley Kubrick are, in my opinion, the two greatest directors of the twentieth century. Often sidelined as Tarkovsky’s somber answer to Stanley Kubrick’s more bombastic 2001: A Space Odyssey, this is actually a false equivalency.
Tarkovsky. Each of them is a giant craftsman. The soviet’s answer to Kubrick until he defected in 1979 amid controversy surrounding The First Day (an unmade movie with allegories critical of the USSR (apparently more overt than the others throughout his career)).Tarkovsky joins (and perhaps leads) the list of great auteurs to die way too young (54)—maybe from radiation exposure while shooting Stalker.