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Shock Corridor Cinema @ the fifty fifty presents Tarkovsky's SOLARIS. Tuesday, May
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| film programer | Shock Corridor Cinema@ the fifty fifty arts collective Tuesday, May 20th @ 8:30 pm 416 Craigflower Rd. (across from the YMCA) Admission: $2.00 (grants you a membership for all future events at the space) Andrei Tarkovsky's SOLARIS (1972) Perhaps Tarkovsky's most accessible film, SOLARIS can be viewed as Russia's answer to Kubrick's 2001, albeit from a radically different position on space exploration. While Kubrick's film (playing this weekend at Cinecenta) seems to marvel at space travel - in awe of human development and mind expansion (a free consciousness typical of 60s cinema) - SOLARIS is less optimistic about what can be located 'out there.' The film follows the journey of Kris Kelvin, an introverted 'space psychologist' who is sent to the Russian space station, Solaris in an attempt to locate information about some bizarre events that have taken place. Deserted, save for a couple of preoccupied, in not demented scientists, the space station is in shambles, as its participants appear to be trapped by years of alienation and experiments that have triggered mysterious visitors. The protagonist soon gets a taste of such contact; Kelvin's hallucinations prompt his dead wife's return, symbolically engaging the protagonist/audience in a therapy session that contributes to the film's central thematic concern: grief and partial recovery. Kelvin's return to a different time and place is both disturbing and contemplative as the Solaris station orbits an ambiguous planet completely engulfed by the water that surrounds it. Couched in spacious long shots and gorgeous cinematography, the film explores grief at the level of the personal and the political. While Kelvin attempts to come to terms with the loss of his wife, the film additionally bemoans our inability to appreciate the divinity of our own planet. It is here that Solaris critiques the validity of space programs and demands we attempt to make significant contact, not with the [alien] Other, but with humanity and our own planet. Peppered with philosophical arguments about reality, identity, and humanity, Tarkovsky's film is one of the finest meditations on the science fiction genre to date and far superior than its recent remake. It took the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes and has been reveared by art cinema enthusiasts ever since. This version restores footage that was originally cut by the Russian Government (apparently they didn't dig the God references), includes a new and improved translation, and sharp digital transfer - Artemyev's electronic score has never sounded better. Note: Grayson will be dusting off our in-house pipe piano for your theatrical lobby entertainment before the screening! - Fri, 16 May 2003 2:07am | ||
| Really | How come it changed from Thursday to Tuesday? Really! - Fri, 16 May 2003 11:24am | ||
| film programer | personal schedules of the staff and conflict with other events. was thursday a better film day for you? i can see it returning to thursday in the fall. - Fri, 16 May 2003 3:38pm | ||
| The Mad Subwoofer User Info... | wow. Glad someone is doing this..good on ya. - Sat, 17 May 2003 12:58am | ||
| Anonymous | tuedays work for me; your $2 cover reminds me of a day when it was cheap to go to movies on tuesdays - Mon, 19 May 2003 2:33am | ||
| Anonymous | IT'S ALL IN HIS MIND. THERE NEVER WAS A SPACE SHIP.. HE'S JUST TRYING TO DEAL WITH THE LOSS OF HIS WIFE! - Mon, 19 May 2003 1:22pm | ||
| pserah User Info... | is this the movie that is based after the stanislaw lew novel? i had heard that they had made a film of it. - Tue, 20 May 2003 1:22am | ||
| Egghead | Man,you guys have been reading to many long haired books.... - Tue, 20 May 2003 1:50am | ||
| Anonymous | long haired books? yes this is the original stanislaw lem adaptation, not to be confused with the recent Solaris w/ george "like my dimpled ass?" clooney - Tue, 20 May 2003 2:02am | ||
| pserah User Info... | great! i've been hearing terrific reviews regarding this film. thanks for clarifying that is indeed the Lem adaptation. i am so there. - Tue, 20 May 2003 2:08am | ||
| Anonymous | did anyone catch 2001 @ Cinecenta? i'm uncertain any sci-fi can come close to its beauty. - Tue, 20 May 2003 12:21pm | ||
| Anonymous | . - Tue, 20 May 2003 2:37pm | ||
| Anonymous | . - Tue, 20 May 2003 7:35pm | ||
| Anonymous | i wish i could go. sounds neat. but i can't. - Tue, 20 May 2003 7:56pm | ||
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