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Directed by ANDREI TARKOVSKI Screenplay by FRIEDRICH GORENSTEIN and ANDREI TARKOVSKI...
...face of it, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris promises a Russian version of Star Trek. Russian physicist, Gibaryan, a psychologist and "solarist" to determine what has made over 80 scientists desert or die aboard the space-ship Solaris, a lab set up to study an oozing, brain-colored body of liquid on another planet. Yet Gibaryan soon confronts the likelihood that the ocean Solaris may actually represent his own subconscious, and Tarkovsky appears to be attempting the same sort of space consciousness analogy Kubrick hinted at in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Maybe...
...Face) and the father of her daughter Linn, 9, are published this week in her autobiography titled The Change. If Ullmann takes a sharp focus on Bergman, she is equally exacting about some other famous men she has met. Among them: Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and former President Richard Nixon, all of whom sat down to dinner with the actress one night. Reports Liv: "Gromyko is pale, but blushes every time his name is mentioned. Brezhnev looks vain, but I like him immediately when he takes my hand and says he loves The Emigrants. Nixon...
Little by little, with these scary hints and some entrancing camerawork, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris draws you in. All signs at this stage seem to point towards a Star Trek turned upside-down: a Spaceship Enterprise--like crew that blasts off to explore strange, unknown lands and instead of finding curvacious blondes drifts into a new dimension where scampering children and uninvited "guests" control reality. Obviously more sophisticated than the sci-fi schlock we've grown used to, Solaris promises to give us a provocative view of the race to space, and a commentary, perhaps, on the moral and political...
...rights" by imprisoning or exiling its members. Amalrik, 38, was the last of his generation of celebrated protester-intellectuals to succumb. At Moscow airport, Physicist Valentin Turchin, a longtime Amalrik friend, explained that although a whole new group of lesser-known dissidents had sprung up to replace the old, "Andrei's departure is a pity for us; he is able to draw much attention to our movement...