Scouting a location for a film in Uzbekistan, Antonioni once gave three elderly Muslim men a picture he had taken of each with his Polaroid. The eldest glanced at the photo and immediately returned them, asking: “What is it good for, to stop the time?

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Jacob Mikanowski on Geoff Dyer and Tarkovsky in the LA Review of Books. 

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