I'm a lurker here but man I love Tarkovsky so much. If anyone is passionate about film his works are must sees for sure. Slow, methodical, meditative, they are films that you slowly digest over days after your viewing. Solaris might be his most accessible (or Ivan's Childhood) but my two recommendations are Stalker and Andrei Rublev.
I think Stalker is high up the list of best movies ever made.
It is one of those where you go "What am I watching?" when you see it for the first time yet it sticks with you. Then, after a few days, you feel almost a compulsion to watch it again.
I'm not sure how to describe it without sounding all artsy fartsy but the atmosphere itself is a compelling character which draws you in, and how the actors give the most mundane scenes this aura of fantastic mystery.
I didn't know there was a movie named Solaris, the only Solaris I know is the Atari 2600 video game. Solaris is a very advanced game in graphics & gameplay for the Atari 2600.
I'm a lurker here but man I love Tarkovsky so much. If anyone is passionate about film his works are must sees for sure. Slow, methodical, meditative, they are films that you slowly digest over days after your viewing. Solaris might be his most accessible (or Ivan's Childhood) but my two recommendations are Stalker and Andrei Rublev.
I think Stalker is high up the list of best movies ever made.
It is one of those where you go "What am I watching?" when you see it for the first time yet it sticks with you. Then, after a few days, you feel almost a compulsion to watch it again.
I'm not sure how to describe it without sounding all artsy fartsy but the atmosphere itself is a compelling character which draws you in, and how the actors give the most mundane scenes this aura of fantastic mystery.
I didn't know there was a movie named Solaris, the only Solaris I know is the Atari 2600 video game. Solaris is a very advanced game in graphics & gameplay for the Atari 2600.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f68IjW7_w98
I didn’t know there was an Atari game but knew about the movie. I need to watch it. I think it’s based on a book
There's Tarkovsky's movie from 1972, and a James Cameron movie from 2002. Both are based on a book by Polish scifi writer Stanislaw Lem.
I haven't read the book myself yet (on my audiobook todo list) but I knew a Polish guy in college who was a huge fan of Lem.
Great find, thanks for posting this!
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