Steven Soderbergh's second release of 2002, after FULL FRONTAL, was another very odd move: a remake of Andrei Tarkovsky's SOLARIS (well, more of a new adaptation of the Stanislaw Lem novel). Underappreciated at the time, Soderbergh's SOLARIS has grown in reputation as one of the great science fiction films of the 2000s - so we brought on a bonafide science fiction expert, Aaron Thorpe, to talk about it! Join us for a thoughtful and wide-ranging conversation about the purpose of science fiction, comprehending the vastness of space, grief, blackness in sci-fi, and OSMOSIS JONES. Don't worry, it's plenty stupid, too.

Further Reading:

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky

Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects by Graham Harman

Myths of the Near Future by J.G. Ballard

Further Viewing:

SOLARIS (Tarkovsky, 1972)

CONTACT (Zemeckis, 1997)

EVENT HORIZON (Anderson, 1997)

OSMOSIS JONES (Farrelly, 2001) 

STAR TREK: NEMESIS (Baird, 2002)

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