By: eustatic
I think you could view the american version as the "dramatized" version of the love story that the original film uses to get to its point. I've recommended that people watch the american version, with...
View ArticleBy: pharm
There's an interesting double review of the Soderbergh Solaris at The House Next Doorhere. Personally, I thought the Soderbergh/Clooney/McElhone Solaris was a stunning film. I loved the ambiguity of...
View ArticleBy: Hammond Rye
I would like to complain to nobody in particular that when I tried to watch the Criterion DVD a few weeks ago I found the subtitles to be almost completely lacking in punctuation or any sort of...
View ArticleBy: Artw
My general impression of the SFWA is that it exists solely for the purpose of dickishness.
View ArticleBy: Faust
I promise I'm not a terrible snob, but Tarkovsky's Solaris is one of my favorites. Yes, there is a twenty minute black-and-white recording of a guy driving. Stuff like that will try anyone's patience....
View ArticleBy: zenon
Lem has been on mefi (obit) before but somehow I had no idea Lem's backstory with the SFWA. Comparing the official SFWA's official version of history: (grabbed today) there was apparently a...
View ArticleBy: Eideteker
Solaris was noteable to me for being a subversion of the (perceived) Star Trek approach to alien contact. "They will be like us, but with different foreheads." Solaris was the first work for me that...
View ArticleBy: pascal
+1 for Cliff Martinez' score for the Soderbergh version, absolutely beautiful.
View ArticleBy: dydecker
From the original link, I just had to laugh at tthis sentence, though: Solaris remains the most gripping cinematic narrative of the 1970s. How wrong can a critic get?
View ArticleBy: zenon
My guest is Leslie Harpold who is drinking my last diet coke and arraigning a giant adventure. In my mind I am thinking that the internet really isn't forever and things here can quickly fade away.
View ArticleBy: geoff.
My "visitor" is Miguel Cardoso. I woke up and he just sat there, sipping his drink as I cry, "Why did you stop commenting?"
View ArticleBy: zenon
I should also note that the criterion version is the one I have - apparently there are a number of other versions, one is nearly 4 hours long, another just over 2, as noted in a review from 1976 in the...
View ArticleBy: Eideteker
Also a fucking awesome song by Failure. Yes, it's about the movie (Tarkovsky version).
View ArticleBy: The Whelk
2001 was an big ole' bucket of ideas about Things and both the most misanthropic and hopeful of Kubrick's films. But it's still a (wonderful amazing ect ) movie. Solaris is more like a place you visit...
View ArticleBy: There's No I In Meme
I'm sorry but an entire thread about Solaris without one link to Cliff Martinez's amazing score for the Soderbergh version? I know I'm a little late to the party, but you owe yourself a listen on good...
View ArticleBy: Lacking Subtlety
1. Part of the problem with Soderberg is that the vast majority of his movies refrain from being sexualized; which is not to say asexual, but he seems outright concerned with not putting a sexy "mood"...
View ArticleBy: Sparx
You should probably not watch it with someone you love, because the film will bring up some deep and difficult questions about the nature of interpersonal connection. I know from first hand experience...
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