For the first full episode of ETV season 5, Bill and Renan talk SOLARIS: mainly the 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky classic, but also the 2002 Steven Soderbergh remake. Although they tell the same story, they are very different films. Your hosts evaluate each film on the merits and in relation to one another, plus: their very different pacing and runtimes; how each film is dated in different ways; the pros and cons of flashbacks; which film had the better ending; the practicalities of filmmaking under Brezhnev; and the film's awkward relationship to Stanley Kubrick and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Film links:

• Solaris (1972) on IMDb
• Solaris (2002) on IMDb
• Solaris (1972) on Wikipedia
• Solaris (2002) on Wikipedia
• Solaris (1972) Ebert review
• Solaris (2002) Ebert review
• Solaris (1972) Criterion essay
• Andrei Tarkovsky on Wikipedia
• Soderbergh films on Wikipedia
• 2001: A Space Odyssey on KubrickCast

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