Episode 426: Solaris (1972)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Released in 1972, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris is the second of three adaptations of Stanislav Lem's 1961 book of the same name. The film tells the tale of Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) who travels to a station orbiting the planet Solaris, a sentient ocean that seems to be able to read the unconscious thoughts of those on the station and conjure up living embodiments of someone from the astronauts' past, with varying results.

Keith Gordon and Rob St. Mary return to The Projection Booth to discuss the Tarkovsky film, the 1968 TV movie, and the Steven Soderbergh adaptation.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:08.6	At precisely 1900 hours, I entered the cabin of the spacecraft and settled back for liftoff.
0:16.5	Ready, Kelvin?
0:18.0	Ready.
0:19.1	Good luck.
0:20.0	Donatas Banonis.
0:22.0	Vladislav Dvorgetzky.
0:24.7	Natalia Bondachuk.
0:26.9	Play the leading roles in Solaris.
0:36.9	The scene is somewhere in the cosmos.
0:39.3	The time, the distant future.
0:42.3	The place, a planet yet unknown to us.
0:46.3	The place. The Based on the novel by Stanislav Lem.
1:30.9	...based on the novel by Stanislav Lem. I'm not Carrie.
2:10.3	I don't care.
2:11.1	I don't care. Carrie doesn't exist, she is dead.
2:30.4	Accepted, Kelvin, or you are lost.
2:53.6	My husband. Accepted Kelvin, are you lost. Let us take you with us to Solaris, Planet of Mystery, embodiment of man's latent conflict with the unknown.
2:57.6	Man, face to face with his conscience and with his past.
3:01.6	Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, who gave us the classic film, André Rubloff.
3:11.2	A studio must film production.
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