I look forward to hearing what you think of Tarkovsky's films. Stalker is probably my favorite, but they're all worth seeing.
I saw Solaris (1972) in high school, of which I remember the atmosphere more than the events: it felt like a certain kind of slowly altering dream, where the way things are at the end of the narrative are, no matter how objectively different, the way they've always been. I liked it very much at the time, although I still have no idea how much resemblance it bears to its source novel. I remember a good interplay of alienness and alienation.
Michael Cisco recommended Stalker to me two years ago at Readercon, but for some incomprehensible reason I never got around to it. I should use this as impetus. I've liked everything else he's ever told me I will.
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I saw Solaris (1972) in high school, of which I remember the atmosphere more than the events: it felt like a certain kind of slowly altering dream, where the way things are at the end of the narrative are, no matter how objectively different, the way they've always been. I liked it very much at the time, although I still have no idea how much resemblance it bears to its source novel. I remember a good interplay of alienness and alienation.
Michael Cisco recommended Stalker to me two years ago at Readercon, but for some incomprehensible reason I never got around to it. I should use this as impetus. I've liked everything else he's ever told me I will.