(director: Stanley Kubrick; screenwriter: Arthur C. Clarke) I first saw this film when I was twelve. It is deeply spiritual film, in the sense of abstractly spiritual. It was the first to set the precedence for real philosophy and metaphysics in science fiction films. When I first watched it as a kid I remember thinking [...]
(director/producer: Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian, subtitled, based on the novel by Stanislov Lem) While 2001 leaves you entranced, Solaris is one movie that will leave you perplexed; it’s more than just sci-fi, it’s psychological and mindbending. Many sci-fi films show how some things are always beyond the limits of our perception; but no one does this [...]
Tarkovsky felt his task was to unveil relationships between images and events that were created by God in the universe, rather than imposing relationships upon an audience in order to manipulate them into a prescribed point of view. Tarkovsky was especially drawn to the internal logic of Japanese haiku, where three very different images are [...]