Goncharov 1973 - Blog Posts
This movie is a childhood favourite of mine and I LOVE that it's finally getting some recognition!!!!
More people need to talk about Katya and the color red and the subtlety of her expressions and how I am totally not a simp for her
another Goncharov 1973 thing I'm sorry
Katya my beloved <333
i’m so glad we’re finally talking about Goncharov 1973 because Katya… Katya Goncharov… all i’m saying that dress up scene does shit to me
Fun fact: Goncharov can only be watched on a DVD grown from Martin Scorsese’s hair
...never touching but never far, oh, at the break of day, a summer's ray, a moonlit night that casts away, their love remains, their love remains.
- When The Sun Loves The Moon x Goncharov/Andrey
I feel like Goncharov needs to be added to this list asap!
Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
One of the few things that are gonna keep me going until 2069 (haha funni number), is my burning desire to see what crazy shit happens when Goncharov finally enters the public domain.
Tumblr really only has two brain cells
Goncharov (1973)
Oh don’t mind me im just doing some cinematography art studies of my favourite Katya moments ~
Rewatched Goncharov (1973) and did a few studies of my favourite scenes
Goncharov is a fake movie that does not exist, but now the line "if we really were in love you wouldn't have missed" will live rent free in my mind until I die.
Everybody: -*Arguing over the Clocktower vs Apple Imagery*- Me: -*Waiting for the Lady in Glasses analysis to start up again*-
I think that we need to cyber bully at least one studio into making us a Goncharov reboot for the 50th anniversary.
y’all think they’ll do a remake in honour of the 50th anniversary of Goncharov?
THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING, GUYS IM CRYING RN
GUYS? Martin Scorsese’s daughter Francesca told him about Goncharov and he said he made that film years ago I’m fucking crying.
Can we talk about Goncharov's sound for a moment please?
I know this is tumblr so we've mostly gotta do extended examination of the themes and fanfic about the gay subtext that's absolutely there between Goncharov and Andrey and the subtext we all wishing was actually there between Katya and Sophia (as I'm sure has been point out, in the original script, it was "You could have been my *son*", not *sun*, which is a whole different mess of subtext, and the other reading only came about because of the lousy closed captioning on the one VHS release). But so much of what makes the film so involving and powerful is the *sound*.
And I know, too, that it's incredibly hard to find a version that sounds good -- I was so lucky to see a 16mm print at a now-closed arthouse theater years ago, and the sound was an absolute revelation over the aged VHS tapes we normally see. But if you can find a version with proper sound somehow, absolutely do, and listen with the best sound system you can. I also saw a version pop up on a local cable channel in Denver of all places once that had pretty decent sound, so I know that version is out there somewhere!
The way each clock and watch ticks different ways that relate to the mood and character. Listen especially to how Goncharov's has a barely-perceptible stutter - it's such an old watch, one he has cherished, but he doesn't have time to repair it. And the way the seconds ticking on it slow just a little each time he looks at it. (My mom's old VHS of it was so worn I couldn't even hear it on her copy when she showed it to me as a kid!)
Or the gunshots! I miss the expressionistic way 70s and 80s movies had handguns sound like cannons to get across how loud and powerful guns are in general, but this was one of the first to really push that idea, and the way you *feel* the impact has been replicated so rarely.
And it's all the more impressive because Walter Murch only had a few weeks to work on this between American Graffiti and The Conversation! It's partly why I believe the rumors that George Lucas actually did a lot of the sound mixing uncredited - not because Murch wasn't good enough to do this, but because there's just no way he had enough... well, enough time.
Anyway, hope at some point this gets a restored release so we can properly appreciate some of the craftsmanship that's been all-but-lost in what few versions are out there.
I rewatched Goncharov (1973) cause of the hype and I needed to sketch something cause I can’t get these characters out of my mind like holy damn. why does this movie have so many killer quotes ;_;
goncharov memes for your consideration
another thought: imagine a biopic about russian novelist coming out and everyone going crazy over it to realize that's another goncharov
