“Solaris,” a film by Andrei Tarkovsky, is a film that focuses on the moral ethics pertaining what to do with the “guests” that the characters are met with throughout the film. The “guests” in the film are manifestations that the planet Solaris brings into existence through the characters subconscious. When faced with the “guests,” the…

Film critics have in the past and continue to hold Journey to Italy in high esteem. A. O. Scott in his 2013 Review featured in the New York Times said of the movie: “Some of us will never tire of those soirees, with their black-tied gloom and elegant suffering, and will therefore relish the beauty…

A Vision of His Own Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris is one of the most unique films I have ever witnessed. Not necessarily in terms of its tone or setting, as it bears striking similarities to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in these regards, but in its presentation. A common theme throughout reviews of Solaris (and Tarkovsky’s films in general), seems…

In the book chapter from the scholarly source in the UC Press E-Books Collection, the author argued that Rossellini, the director of the film Journey to Italy, “refus[ed] to do things in the Hollywood manner”. Even though the film included famous Hollywood actors, the storyline was purposefully vague, unlike the straightforward strategy of the conventional…