Slideshow
Andrei Tarkovsky’s
SOLARIS
Saturday, September 6
7:00
We are celebrating 35 years of Film Forum's Houston Street home by reprising the films we showed at our grand opening, beginning September 5, 1990 (exactly one year after the closing of FF's Watts Street location).
NOTE: This screening is SOLD OUT.
A standby line will form at the box office 30 minutes prior to showtime.
Soviet Union, 1972
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Written by Friedrich Gorensetin, Andrei Tarkovsky
Based on the novel Solaris by Stanisław Lem
Starring Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
In Russian with English subtitles.
Approx. 167 min. DCP.
Within the debris-strewn corridors of a decrepit space station, Donatas Banionis struggles with the enigma of a sentient planet, accompanied by an embodiment of his own past.
Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film and The Ashes and Diamonds Fund for Eastern European Film
A JANUS FILMS RELEASE
Reviews
“I felt my heart aching in agony with a longing to return to the earth as quickly as possible. Marvellous progress in science we have been enjoying, but where will it lead humanity after all? Sheer fearful emotion this film succeeds in conjuring up in our soul. Without it, a science fiction movie would be nothing more than a petty fancy… Every shot of SOLARIS bears witness to the almost dazzling talents inherent in Tarkovsky.”
– Akira Kurosawa
“So much to think about afterwards, and so much that remained in my memory.”
– Roger Ebert
“Like his Solarian sea, Tarkovsky has made ideas walk, breathe, and move us.”
– Richard Eder, The New York Times