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Good Resource.......2007-04-10
I've read some of his other books and have always appreciated his writing. I purchased this book to be a resource for a Retreat I will be leading. It's a wonderful resource. Has lots of great information in it.
Where are the icons?.......2007-03-09
As an Orthodox Priest, I did not agree with Nouwen. He does not give correct information about the icons he is reviewing. He is not qualified to interpret icons.
A Spiritual Gem.......2006-09-26
I first read this book in the late 80s, just before a period of return to the Catholic tradition of my youth, and I was reminded of it this past Sunday while gazing at stained glass windows in a local church.
The book is a wonderful introduction to Christian iconography, from a spiritual master and healer. In addition, it is very effective as a first step toward sitting and gazing as a spiritual practice. Indeed, sitting, and seeing, becomes a profound experience of prayer in itself, and Nouwen's little book will be appreciated by those seeking a retreat from the agitation, clamor and distraction of daily life.
Nouwen Invites Us Into His Mind & Heart.......2004-04-26
This isn't a dogmatic book that tells the reader what one must get out of praying with icons. Nouwen simply relates an experience he had over a course of several years while visiting l'Arche, a community for people with mental handicaps, in Trosly, France. Each year, when he visited, a different icon was placed on the table of the room where he stayed. Nouwen simply records the fruits of his meditations for us to read.
In doing so, he aptly teaches the reader more about praying with icons than any "how to" book ever could.
This book came at a perfect time for me in my spiritual journey. I was just beginning to open up to the world of praying with icons, when Nouwen lit a fire within my soul. I hope the book does the same for you.
NEGATIVE: I will offer only one negative point concerning this book. The glue on my copy was defective and the front portion of the cover pulled away from the book. It has been my experience that what happens with one book, may happen with many. Still, I feel completely comfortable recommending it.
Refreshing to learn.......2003-10-01
This book was loaned to me, I promptly bought it through Amazon.com because it is so helpful in focus. The explanations are easy to follow, depth of insight provides a delight in learning, and the four beautiful prints allow immediate reference and practical meditation. Highly recommended.
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Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was one of the great poets of world cinema. A fiercely independent artist, Tarkovsky crafted poignantly beautiful films that have proven inscrutable and been bitterly disputed. These qualities are present in abundance in Andrei Rublev (1966), Tarkovsky's first fully mature film. Ostensibly a biographical study of Russia's most famous medieval icon-painter, Andrei Rublev is both lyrical and epic, starkly naturalistic and allegorical, authentically historical and urgently topical. While much remains mysterious in Andrei Rublev, critics have recently begun to reappraise it as a groundbreaking film that undermines comfortable notions of life and spirituality.
Robert Bird's multifaceted account of Andrei Rublev extends this reevaluation of Tarkovsky's radical aesthetic by establishing the film's historical context and presenting a substantially new reading of key scenes. Bird definitively establishes the film's tortured textual history, which has resulted in two vastly different versions. He relates the film to traditions in Russian art and intellectual history, but finally his analysis focuses on Andrei Rublev as a visual and narrative artwork that treats profound existential questions by challenging conventional notions of representation and vision.
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Dreary, hard to watch. .......2007-04-07
Given high acclaims this film has collected over time, I was glad to pick up a VHS copy at my local library sale. Began to watch it last night. I was able to sit thru the part 1. When the tape ended, I was actually glad. I felt a sense of acomplishment in finishing the part 1! The movie is DREARY to the max. People portrayed are irrational, lost, uncommunicative, and subject to random and cruel violence by soldiers and rulers. In some way, this movie reminded me of the dreary winter (lasting 6 months!) I spent in Russia a couple of years ago...
To me, the movie reflects the psychological breakdown that happened after the decades long terror policy of Soviet state (1920-1956). For survivors, nothing made any sense anymore, except perhaps fear and evil, as people in this dreary film reflects. People have been already destroyed in their souls. They are psychologically shattered beyond repair and only occasional readings of the Bible verses give them any sense of permanence in their chaotic daily experience.
Maybe that is the real meaning of this movie. To really reflect what happened to people's psyche after Lenin and Stalin's UNLIMITED TERROR, they found a parallel in Mongol's devastation and oppression of medieval Russia. In both cases, people were left shattered, helpless, irrational, withdrawn, and autistic.
Tarkovsky's Archetypal Imagery.......2007-02-19
I suppose it's a tribute, to the profound strength, of Tarkovsky's Imagery, that they stayed in my mind, for about 3, or 4 years. During this span of time, various images, from the movie "Andrei Rublev" would keep rising from the depths of my psyche. Some stressful event would occur, in my life, and images, from that strange movie, that I had seen, would automatically arise.
I just happened to run across a showing of "Andrei Rublev", on one of those "artsy" cable channels, given to foreign films... I think it was "The Sundance Channel". Through the years, I had forgotten the name of the movie. It was just, recently, within the last month, that I really started to search for the movie.
One of the outstanding images captures the sheer terror, and helplessness, of being in Medieval Russia, during the invasion of Tator, or Mongol Tribes (this distinction is not clear).
The images unwind, in dreamlike fashion, and Tarkovsky leaves us to our own inner meanings. There is the eternal battle, of good v.s. evil. There is the misery of the downtrodden, then, the triumph of the human spirit. In the end, I think we gain a new appreciation, of the human need, for ritual, and iconic imagery, found in all civilizations. Upon these images we infuse our hopes, our dreams, and the very future of humanity.
An Antti Keisala Comment: He That Dwelleth in the Secret Place of the Most High.......2007-01-01
I have spent my time watching films, and along the way moulded a way of thinking about cinema; it has become a way of enriching my life more than just in the function of entertainment and passing time; indeed, it has driven me to discover things about myself and about the surrounding world, and it has urged me to create my own film cosmologies to make sense. And each time I come full circle, it all ends here, in this film. And it all starts here.
Considering you are here reading about a Tarkovsky film, it's likely that you might already know this and that. You might know the common words to describe his work such as 'transcendental', 'spiritual' and such. My own logic of film, sort of a chain of irrationalities, is a mix of some Kabbalah, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, with all sorts of things meshing and clashing in between. So I think of cinema in highly subjective terms, truth be told; I dare say these writings are most likely useless to most, but I guess there is an urge in each of us to participate in creating ourselves. This I shall elaborate further in time.
In common language things like spirituality mean not much, but in subjective worlds they become uplifting terms, something that brings a strange, abstract clarity to your thoughts. But when we put these feelings and theories to words, the words themselves seem meaningless and unable to contain any of the original thought. The words themselves become graveyards of thought. Yet the fascinating and rewarding paradox is that half the fun in watching cinema is thinking and rewinding them and writing about them afterwards.
So is it any wonder that I begin my task, whatever that may be, from the film that in itself transcends all description, in my weary words? What is so fascinating about Tarkovsky is that he reaches so far, goes so beyond us in images that we cannot no longer comprehend the emotions in a way that would be comprehensive to another human being. His films, and especially this one, then 'Mirror', 'Nostalghia' and then 'Solaris' (in this order) transcend any possible way to categorise them, but they open infinite possibilities not only to the film at hand but to life itself: existential cinema so profoundly it makes the word itself useless.
And there is the question why to write? I am, as many people are, building a whole life, a 'visual' personality upon the best of cinema, so in a way watching films isn't only about being the viewer--it is also about being actively involved in the process of viewing, and in many ways we become so enchanted in the film that we find a place from within, from a character or a situation. And in Tarkovsky's world we find a place for ourselves in the camera, which slowly unfolds all sorts of cosmic doors (another graveyard of a word). And it doesn't only move, it lingers. And it lingers all the way to our souls. (I use the plural to make you a participant as well)
I don't think we can share too much of an experience, especially when they become as deep as they can. Thus a film looks never the same to two pairs of eyes, as I also think that a film seems different every single time we watch it again. So it is with 'Rublev': it has changed just as I have changed, and it has become more of a mirror into my soul than anything else. This is one of the functions of a great film, that they become so integral to our lives that we take it as being part of ourselves. Perhaps, I have none other a function or motif to give for my writings, I could say that I could handle these comments as a diary, a way to reveal something of an anonymous self in virtual space through an experience that might be completely incomprehensible to some, yet familiar to others.
And I believe in an abstract place in our minds which I call visual cognition. I use it to describe a sort of an empty space in the borders of our conscious mind, a white space, infinitely expansive, to which the greatest films can lead us, giving us a broader visual imagination in all ways imaginable. And this film is one of those. In fact, as any other self-respecting Amazon and IMDb user, I too have all sorts of lists and categories to enrich my life with, and as the most precious of them, a sort of a best of list, which I call 'Nero-Antico', or 'The Cinematic Sublime'. This film is on that list, obviously. I don't know any deeper experiences in cinematic realms.
As for the DVD, Criterion bodes for excellence, and this release really must have been a revelation; but please do consider that this is a 1999 release, a 200 minutes long film on a single disk. And most importantly, it's not anamorphic. So basically you have a few choices, at least until the dream of every Tarkovsky fan comes true, an Andrei Rublev DVD box-set. Highbrow fantasy, you say. Comedy, at least.
So, your choices. If you're not already aware, there are several versions of the film that have been travelling the world for the last 40 years. The two versions nowadays are the version 180 and 200 minutes in length. This edition at hand is the only edition that gives you the longer version and offers you a chance to look at the film as it was in 1966, three years before it was trimmed down by Tarkovsky into the three-hour shape it nowadays embraces the DVD editions. So basically you aren't buying exactly the same film if you opt for the R2 Artificial Eye release; the AE is the three-hour version, although anamorphic. The jury is out whether it is that much better a transfer.
I have seen both versions, yet I do not own the shorter one. It isn't worse; in fact, it could be the version Tarkovsky was happier in the end, although this could the talk of a politician. It isn't about the quality of the film, but about the resources you have in your disposal. For North American buyers the Criterion shouldn't be that much of a brainer, and if you are a European seriously thinking of purcashing a Criterion Collection DVD, you are likely deeper into these things than where I'm coming from.
There isn't yet really a DVD release truly worthy of the film itself, so the definitive edition should be a possible Criterion re-issue. And of course even more so if it was to include both versions. But for now we must go with what's given.
Holy........2006-09-19
Like the review I just read, Tarkovskies' ANDRE RUBLEV is the movie that I keep coming back to over the years. It is my favorite film and has been until something as special comes along.
More than any filmmaker in any country, in any language, this movie has imparted and impressed it's viewpoint into my perception. I have incorporated it into my vision. I resonate with it... It plays me like a bell.
It is not an entertainment really though much of it is entertaining. This film transcends both entertainment and mere artistic success - the images and themes are so spiritually charged and archetypically strong that one may have the sense while watching it, that he or she is remembering half forgotten dreams.
Like the person whose review I just read, I often pause in simple wonder after a chapter just to let it ring.
The film chronicles the life and spiritual development of Russian artist, Icon painter
Andre Rublev. The epic unfolds in 6 chapters the last of which introduces another artist, a young Church bell maker. The chapter reveals aspects and components of the creative process both literally and in allegory ...one senses that the filmmaker Tarkovsy and the young bell-maker may have a great deal in common and that he may have written himself into this section....this last chapter "Spring" is shot through with a narrative vitality, an energetic quality to the expression that is simply colossal - there is a joy in the unfolding and discovery of this bell-makers own creative powers...all of which is witnessed by the aging jaded Andre Rublev who is, as a witness, transformed by what he sees, as will be anyone who has eyes to see and apprehend the naked wonder of this last chapter.
Andre Tarkovsky made this film in what used to be the USSR during a period of rigid and scrutinizing censorship. He used the artistic restraints and the hoops he had to jump through to a brilliant advantage carefully codifying individual artistic and spiritual themes into the chapters of this epic. The constraints seem to have served to discipline and streamline the narrative...the result is golden ...more truth per foot of film than any I can compare it to.
I saw it first on video in college in a russian art history class, later bought the dvd, and more recently attended a screening at Disney Studios that colleague was given the invite to but couldn't make. I brought someone who just didn't get it.
Tarkovsy is not for everyone though you should give yourself the benefit of the doubt because, if he IS for you, you may very well be changed and touched and rewarded again and again by this truly timeless gem.
The Long Journey of an Artist.......2006-08-03
Andrei Rublyov (1969) by Andrei Tarkovsky is my number 1 (shares with Tarkovsky's Zerkalo) film of all time. It is a pinnacle of film-making for me - one of few most visually beautiful films as well as one of the deepest films ever. The beauty of every frame is exquisite - I have to pause film very often just to admire it.There are only couple of more films that have touched me as profoundly as Andrei Rublyov did. I am always surprised to hear that it is very slow film - for Tarkovsky, it is very well paced, and I am never tired of its 3+ hours running time.
Film based on life of the 15-th century monk and icon painter Andrei Rublyov who wanders through the country torn by barbarism, and later by Tatar invaders. Tarkovsky explores several very important topics in his film: what is talent and how an Artist is responsible for it? The Man and God, the Artist and the Power.
The final 20 minutes of the film are the best and most inspiring I've seen in the cinema. For me, the last chapter of the film, "The Bell" is perhaps the greatest in its emotional impact piece of cinema ever made. I can't stay calm and collected when I see it. Boriska sobbing like a child after his Bell rings - and he is a child, a boy, lonely and lost; Andrei breaking his vows of silence, his words to Boriska of hope, of many roads they would walk together. Andrei's icons that we are finally allowed to behold and admire, their breathtaking divine beauty and serenity, their melodic lines and pure joyful colors, the faces of the saints and angels with their eternal mystery, quiet knowledge and sadness, looking inside themselves and inside our very souls; the music that literally takes you somewhere above this Earth, to the heights of such purity and beauty that you could hardly breath and where even the "swiftest birds" of pain and death can't reach you...
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A wonderful collection from this musical master. The 22 titles include: Baby Elephant Walk * Crazy World * Days of Wine and Roses * Inspector Clouseau Theme * Moon River * The Pink Panther * Song from 10 (It's Easy to Say) * The Thorn Birds Theme.
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This magnificent compilation of play from the 1960s through to the 1970s forms the basis of the third part of Garry Kasparov's long-awaited definitive history of the World Chess Championship. This volume features the play of champions Tigran Petrosian (1963-1969) and Boris Spassky (1969-1972).
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A Good Thing Continues.......2006-03-26
Kasparov's release of MGPIII continues a fine series. The annotations are superb, and his opinions on the historical importance of former world champions Petrosian and Spassky (as well as other important players such as Portisch, Stein, Gligoric, and Polugaevsky) make the book (and the MGP series) relevant. A slight quibble is the chapter on Spassky-you never get a true sense of what made him so admired away from the chessboard. Still, a fine work.
A good book but the other volumes are better .......2005-01-26
I found this book interesting and well-written but lacking the insight of the other three. For example, Kasparov gives insufficient attention to Spassky as a tremendous sportsman. Spassky bent over backwards to accomodate Fischer and allow the match to be held, in contrast to Karpov three years later who seized on Fischer's mental instability to take the crown and avoid the match. Chess owes a great deal to Spassky's sporting character but discussion of his inate decency is mysteriously missing. (Compare Alekhine avoiding Capablanca, etc).
The discussion of Petrosian's game with Kasparov is good and the book is worth buying though not as good as the two before and the one aferwards, both in lenght and insight.
Excellent, subjective.......2005-01-21
This is an excellent work!
You get Kasparov's opinion on the games of World Champions Spassky and Petrossian plus some other players from the same era (Leonid Stein, Lev Polugaevsky).
Do not be intimidated by some people's small-minded comments about some historical inaccuracies or analytical errors (most people who have never published any relevant analysis are just powering up their engines, find differences and without understanding anything claim "they" had "found many mistakes").
The point is: You buy this book to get Kasparov's very own, subjective interpretation of chess history, and nothing else. People who tell you that something is wrong with his perspective usually do not explain the one point: If he is so much wrong, why does he play so strongly then? It is all about what you want from a book. Reading "correct" computer analysis will not improve your game much, but learning about and understanding the perspective of one of the greatest players of chess ever might well do so.
If you are not interested in that, simply do not buy it.
Another gem.......2005-01-08
Compared to the two earlier volumes this book is relatively thin, just a 'mere' 332 pages, but its contents are at least as interesting to a reader interested in modern chess. Apart from Petrosian and Spassky, Portisch and L. Stein are also discussed in subdivisions of approximately 45 pages each. (The games of Fischer are in Vol. 4!)
Apart from the contents, the book itself is of excellent quality. Nice quality white paper, the diagrams of the other page are almost not visible and certainly not disturbing. The binding is of fine quality; its possible to lay down the book opened on any page without having to worry about its back.
The quality of the analysis of the games is beyond my judgement. Being a very mediocre chess player I usually just skim the surface, rarely I go over each variation, but I presume they are also interesting to advanced players.
Kasparov remarks often are not completely objective and he likes it a bit too much to point out very explicitely omissions of previous annotators. To some this might be irritating, to others rather amusing. His views on the development of chess and particular ideas are very interesting, just as his anecdotes.
The chosen games are without exception very interesting. Kasparov's gives opinions on tactical matters (match strategy for instance), information about circumstances in which the games are played and he succeeds in bringing games of the past to live.
Maybe the fascination with chess and its past influenced me too much in judging this book but in my opinion its simply a gem.
A World Champion's perspective on the Pantheon.......2004-12-09
I've noted in other reviews that Garry Kasparov, the 13th World Champion, did not live up to the expectations of many learned and published titled chessplayers. Nevertheless his body of work on the great ones, and their peers of note, is monumental and in one sense long needed. Can anyone find a good biography on Vassily Smyslov, the 7th champion? Thanks to Kasparov, I now have a greater appreciation and understanding of his style, thus I can interpret his "My Best Games of Chess : 1935-1957" with a much clearer understanding of his principals. Through the volumes he provides a timeline of chess theory and practice (this is best studied in John Watson's Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy) by some of the giants of the times. In volume 3 I particularly liked his review on the life and sample games of Leonid Stein, one of the lesser known lost talents (he died prematurely) who clearly was Candidate strength for the World Title. But some of Kasparov's material has been seen before - his postings on the abilities and approaches to chess by his predecessors were seen years before on his late (and lamented) kasparovchess.com , so his thoughts on Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky are not particular new, only there are more games which he analyzed. On Petrosian I was disappointed that he did not do a better job of comparing Petrosian's style of play to Aron Nimzowitsch (author of My System and one of the leading chess theorists and a contemporary of J.R. Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine). Many chess authors identified and praised Spassky's 'universal style' but Kasparov is the first I've seen to actually discuss the phases of the 10th World Champion's game and actually look into the roots of his training --perhaps Spassky was the more pragmatic player (something often identified with Petrosian) however Spassky played what the board presented and not necessarily steer the positions to what he was 'confortable' with. Once again, better insight into a champion's play. Kasparov's opinions aren't not the only ones to read, but anything from a World Champion, past or present is always worth a look. Sadly, other World Champions have done over all a poor job by either not producing any works (Petrosian for example), poor works (Spassky) or underappreciated works (Botvinnik and Smyslov), or giving us a teaser of what he could do (Fischer - his "60 Memorable Games" has to be one of the most influential chess books in the game's history; in spite of his non-chess rantings, any chessbook Fischer writes about his own games would likely be a New York Times bestseller - Fiction or non-Fiction would be depending on how well the editors keep Bobby to the topic of chess and nothing else).
I recommend this book to any person interested in chess and can read notation to follow the games. I wish there was more on the history of his predecessors and peers (except Botvinnik, which he has a near obsequious chapter). Garry Kimovich isn't done playing chess, but I can't wait to see what his equivalent of "60 Memorable Games" will be to further cement his place on the pantheon when he passes on to The Ages.
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Through his years as an IRS tax attorney, Sandy Botkin discovered that most Americans could legally and dramatically cut their tax bills by establishing themselves as independent contractors or businesspersons. In Lower Your Taxes--Big Time!, fully updated for 2005 and 2006, Botkin explains how, outlining a straightforward program for writing off everything from family vacations to movies and plays, and receiving a subsidy of $5,000 or more from the IRS each and every year.
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An Outstanding Small Business Tax Planning Guide.......2007-07-23
This book is perfect for anyone who currently has (or is contemplating) a small business and wants a lot of general questions answered about business entity structuring, deductions, taxes, and more. It doesn't attempt to replace the need for professional legal or accounting advice. However, it does help you to become more informed about the issues, and that means you're better equipped to profitably steer your business. This book might be too basic for some people. However, it's extremely reader-friendly and is the ideal starting point for anyone who is unfamiliar with these topics. Save yourself some expensive legal and accounting fees by reading this book BEFORE you seek professional guidance in setting up your business or redefining your structure.
Not as useful as I thought.......2007-04-02
This book concentrates a lot on deductions you can make if you own a business. While there is a lot of useful information (and all legal if you keep abundant records), I was expecting more creative ways to lower taxable income.
little guy disaster.......2007-02-13
This book is geared to business people and not for the average individual. A lot of the tax saving strategies are fantasy too!!!!
It's alot easier to start a home-based business than you think!.......2007-01-12
This book is absolutely amazing! Great tips, awesome information, and everything backed up with references. You can get started with a home-based business (Watkins, Avon, etc) for next to nothing, and the money you save on taxes in one year should more than pay for the cost to get started with a familiar company. This info in this book can help you start saving tax dollars from day one.
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Well-referenced.......2006-11-01
Much of this book does apply to me (a sole-proprietor). You can get a lot of the information from other sources, but this book does cram a lot into a fairly compact and easy to read format. Although the book is not exhaustive, it does have a benefit over many other tax books (including a couple of the NOLO tax guides): It cites the IRS rulings, private letters etc. that you would need to back up your tax strategies in the face of an audit. My accountant is only willing to claim deductions that he can justify to the IRS. The citations make this easy.
The book is not particularly well-organized, so you do need to read the whole thing to find specific tax deductions.
The book has saved me some money on taxes over the past couple years. In that respect, it has been a good investment. More importantly, it has suggested strategies for me going forward.
I will buy the new edition when it comes out.
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