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I first saw it as part of the NYFF in a special screening at the Ziegfeld in a 70mm blow up, probably in 1972. I was in my early twenties. It was mesmerizing. It reminded me of Michael Snow's THE CENTRAL REGION, which I had just seen at Anthology. I think I had already read the book. I was...

While I love Lem's novel, I find Tarkovsky's film much more positive, in the way it deals with memory and time. The framing plot, in which the cosmonaut returns to earth, turning the narrative of the novel into another memory, shows a way out of the loop of reminiscence; allied with the...

It helps if you read the book, which I highly recommend. Actually, Tarkovsky turns the thesis of Lem's novel on its head, and the film is missing the closure of the novel, which brought me to tears the first time I read it. The movie brings me to tears too, but in a very different way. The...