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Tarkovsky

2 articles on this topic.

Editorial composition divided between 2001 and Solaris, with a monolith, an oceanic planet and a projection room.

May 20, 2026

2001, Solaris and the Cinema of Impossible Contact

Two films suggest that extraterrestrial contact is not chiefly a technical problem but a philosophical one: how do we speak to what resists understanding?

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Editorial composition on Tarkovsky, Solaris and Stalker as a poetic and metaphysical answer to Kubrick.

December 5, 2025

Soviet Science-Fiction Cinema: Tarkovsky's Answer to Kubrick

How Andrei Tarkovsky shaped a poetic, metaphysical alternative to Western science fiction in Solaris and Stalker.

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