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In Reply to: Can anyone recommend a rental-by-mail service for Solaris? posted by Jim Susky on February 07, 2002 at 21:47:14:
There's a copy on video now for US$19.50 or so. Ebay: it comes up from time to time. I would dub you off a copy from laser disc but I just looked at it and it's in Russian with Japanese subtitles. If you're lucky, there's a wide screen version.
Tarkovsky's "The Stalker" is even better IMHO. Lot's of cinematic tricks done with time, color and movement that I've never seen another Director even attempt. Really clever and atmospheric.
Science fiction as far removed from the "Star Wars" genre as you could ever get.
Eric
Tokyo*
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I have a tape made off the DVD and it is quite good, so if you run out of your options I will lend you.I just could not get through Stalker... four attempts failed. Something there ust doesn't speak to me. And I just LOVE the lead actor, he is incredibly deep. But even the novel I could not finish... I have it, perhaps I could try it again.
You mentioned Lem, and he was wonderful. Did you read his other great work - I am not sure how it would translate into English title, but perhaps the Invincible? I still remember the chill down my spine as I read it late at night as a teenager.
I think I know why "Stalker" doesn't work for you; you are too familiar with the landscapes and the characters, the dialog and the attitudes. "Stalker" only works if you've never experienced Eastern Europe, or Scandanavia in any depth. It's the lack of familiarity with all the above that draws a Western audience into the film. "Stalker" starts out in an environment so alien to an American viewer it might as well be the dark side of the moon. By the end of the film, they have become familiarised with the environment Tarkovsky creates; that's part of his style with most of his films, but you'd never notice this if you actually know the places. I have exactly the same problem with Japanese films now, I was really ho-hum and so what about the Greenaway's "Pillow Book"; friends in the UK and Australasia raved about it. After a decade living in Japan it did nothing for me, for the same reason; it's a landscape that's become too everyday and familiar.
By the way, the "driving" sequence in Solaris through a city and tunnels at night is a stretch of road in Tokyo through Shinjuku to the Rainbow Bridge; I drive this maybe once a week.
Eric
Tokyo*
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