draw your own conclusions about Russia
This DVD contains three different pieces (well five really, as "Three Songs About Motherland" -as you would expect from the title- itself has three distinct parts). What they all have in common is they're in some way about Russia.
Chris Marker's "One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich" I'd heard about and been seeking for a couple years, but this is the first time I found it on DVD (rather than VHS tape, which is no good to me). It portrays Andrei Tarkovsky in some detail, and includes a lot of footage about his shooting of his last film "The Sacrifice". Most of the material was new to me (however a few bits of the filming of "The Sacrifice" looked somewhat similar to other things I've seen from a different camera). It's a sort of paean to a friend (look elsewhere if what you want is in-depth film criticism).
Sergey Dvortsevoy's little-known documentary "In the Dark" is about an aging pensioner in Russia who doesn't much feel like he's 'useful' to society...
Great films - but Actual release date now 6/21/11
the chris marker Andrei Tarkovsky film is far and away the best film about Tarkovsky, and another great film by Marker, too.
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