Day 3 of everything is coming up Zardoz! soviet style.
Glib Reviews Of Old Movies Everything Is Coming up Zardoz, Day 3 Well, I took a left turn on day 3 of my little solo 70’s Sci Fi festival, and watched a 70’s Sci fi art film. My previous entries have had the odd bit of artsiness, sure, maybe even a bit of pretentiousness. But none of them are Russian, so.... Yes, I am talking about Solaris, not the ‘remake’ with Clooney, which isn’t terrible, but Soderbergh ain’t no Tarkovsky. Nobody is. And that is a good thing. Solaris - Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky Tarkovsky, I came to, later in life. I never saw any of his films until I started working at video stores at the turn of the millennium. I’d read about them quite a bit, but had never rented any, or gone to an art house. The first one I saw was Solaris. Billed on the cover as the ‘Soviet 2001’, um well maybe. Solaris is obviously not in the same budgetary genre as 2001, and aside from the fact that they both have themes of isolation and identity at their hearts, the ...