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Vartanov's film, "Parajanov: The Last Spring",
about the last days of our great Parajanov, excited and filled me with strength to resume the way of
magnificent tale that the Maestro had taken...
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Tonino Guerra |
With the death of Parajanov, cinema lost one of its magicians;
Parajanov's fantasy will forever fascinate and bring joy to the people of the world...
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Federico Fellini
Marcello Mastroianni
Tonino Guerra
Francesco Rosi
Alberto Moravia
Bernardo Bertolucci
Giulietta Masina
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In the temple of cinema there are images, light and reality.
Sergei Parajanov was the master of that temple...
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Jean-Luc Godard
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"The Color of Pomegranates" by Parajanov,
in my opinion one of the best contemporary film directors,
strikes with its perfection of beauty...
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Michelangelo Antonioni
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Always with huge gratitude and pleasure I remember
the films of Sergei Parajanov, which I love very much.
His way of thinking, his paradoxical poetical... ability
to love the beauty and ability to be absolutely free within his own vision.
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Andrei Tarkovsky
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To me, it seems, the cinema of Sergei Parajanov began not with the
"Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors", as many think, but with "Color of the Pomegranate".
Probably, besides the film language suggested by Griffith and Eisenstein,
the world cinema has not discovered anything revolutionarily new until
"Color of the Pomegranate", not counting the generally unaccepted
language of the "Andalusian Dog" by Bunuel.
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Mikhail Vartanov |
Vartanov... brother and friend in arts and in soil…dear, beloved, rare and wonderful…
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Sergei Parajanov
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Mikhail Vartanov - the "eyemo-man"...
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William Saroyan
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My dear friend (Vartanov)...should you like the (screenplay)
"Desert", together we could make a masterpiece...
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Artavazd Peleshian
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