Another shot at encompassing a relatively small body of work: twenty-four essays across four general categories - 'Russian and Religion', 'Art and Nature', 'Music and Modernity' and 'Memory and Awakenings' - attempting to plait the threads running through the director's movies and his life; contributors include Jean-Paul Sartre, James Quandt, Marc Forster; illustrated throughout, timeline of the director, the poems of Arseny Tarkovsky, and indexed; 460+pp.