I recommend three films by Andrei Tarkovsky: 1) Solaris 2) Stalker 3)
The Sacrifice. I believe these three films meet the criteria you are
seeking -- and in my opinion, are far better and more interesting than
any of the films on your list.
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SOLARIS
Release Year: 1972
Production Company: Mosfilm
Country: USSR
Synopsis: Science fiction: some scientists in a space observation
laboratory, above the planet Solaris, discover that the ocean contains
some power which forces them to materialise their obsessions in solid
form.
A new arrival calls up the physical simulation of his wife, a long-dead
suicide.
References :
Film Comment.v26.n4.Jul/Aug 1990 p.57-60,62 lang.ENG.illus - Analysis of
the film.
Premiere.v3.n10.June 1990 p.38,42 lang.ENG.illus - Article about Andrei
Tarkovsky's
SOLARIS
Listener.v121.n3097.19 Jan 1989 p.59 lang.ENG - Review
T‚l‚rama.n1846.29 May 1985 p.24 lang.FRE - Review
Cinefantastique.v6.n1.Summer 1977 p.Summer 15 lang.ENG - Review
Hollywood Reporter.v243.n7.10 Sep 1976 p.3,18 lang.ENG - Review
Positif.n162.October 1974 p.35-44 lang.FRE - Review
CinemaTV Today.n10037.23 Jun 1973 p.34 lang.ENG - Review
Monthly Film Bulletin.v40.n473.June 1973 p.130 lang.ENG - Review
Hollywood Reporter.v223.n30.26 Oct 1972 p.14 lang.ENG - Review
Variety.24 May 1972 p.19 lang.ENG - Review
Soviet Film.n4.1972 p.22 lang.ENG.illus - Review
Hollywood Reporter.v219.n28.10 Jan 1972 p.3 lang.ENG - Review
Cine Cubano.v3.n14/15.1963 p.140-152 lang.SPA - Review
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STALKER
Other Titles: The WISH MACHINE
Release Year: 1979
Production Company: Mosfilm
Country: USSR
Synopsis: The Stalker guides illegal visitors through the overgrown
labyrinth of the Zone, an area of alien traps and treasures, containing
a room where wishes may come true...
References :
Avant-Sc?ne du Cin‚ma.n427.December 1993 p.[whole issue] lang.FRE.illus
Article, detailed credits, script(in French), plus reviews in the French
press.
Kino.v26.n7.July 1992 p.27-29 lang.POL.illus "Theorist in the cinema:
problems of adaptations - STALKER An examination of the differences
between the book and the film.
Film Quarterly.v43.n2.Winter 1989/90 p.28-34 lang.ENG
Article looking at the dream imagery in Andrei Tarkovsky's films,
particularly ZERKALO and STALKER.
Time Out.n890.9 Sep 1987 p.8 lang.ENG
The Strugatsky brothers, who wrote the novel on which the film was
based, and the screenplay for the film{ comment on rkovsky's treatment
of their script.
T‚l‚rama.n1846.29 May 1985 p.25 lang.FRE
Review
Sight and Sound.v54.n1.Winter 1984/85 p.Winter 50-54 lang.ENG
Discussion of STALKER and NOSTALGHIA, and Tarkovsky's search for
'home'. cran Fantastique.n23.1982 p.19 lang.FRE
Review
Cahiers du Cin‚ma.n330.December 1981 p.41-42 lang.FRE
Review
Positif.n247.October 1981 p.16-22 lang.FRE
Article on film.
Positif.n247.October 1981 p.23-26 lang.FRE
Interview with director.
Cin‚matographe.n72.November 1981 p.60-61 lang.FRE
Review
Cineforum.n203.April 1981 p.46-54 lang.ITA
Review
Listener.v105.n2699.12 Feb 1981 p.224 lang.ENG
Review by gavin Millar.
Monthly Film Bulletin.v48.n564.January 1981 p.10-11 lang.ENG
Review
Sight and Sound.v50.n1.Winter 1980/81 p.Winter 8-9,63-64 lang.ENG
Review
Sight and Sound.v49.n4.Autumn 1980 p.Autumn 240-241 lang.ENG
Stills.
Soviet Film.n10.1980 p.33-35 lang.ENG
Review
Skrien.n97.May/Jun 1980 p.18-23 lang.DUT
Review
Variety.19 Sep 1979 p.19 lang.ENG
Review
T‚l‚rama.n1535.13 Jun 1979 p.85-87 lang.FRE
Interview.
Soviet Film.n4.1977 p.20-21 lang.ENG
Review
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THE SACRIFICE
OFFRET
Other Titles: SACRIFICIO
OPFER
UPPOFFRINGEN
OFFRET-SACRIFICATIO
SACRIFICE
Release Year: 1986
Production Company: Swedish Film Institute
Sveriges Television Sveriges Television TV2
Sandrews. French Ministry of Culture
Josephson & Nykvist Hb, Argos Films
Channel Four
Country: France, Sweden
Synopsis: A TV celebrity has achieved everything in life that he has
dreamed of, when he learns that nuclear war has broken out. He prays to
God, and promises to give up everything if the war can be stopped. It
does.....
References :
Kino.v26.n10.October 1992 p.4-6 lang.POL.illus "Secrets of Andrei
Tarkovski" Lejla Alexander, Tarkovski's assistant and intrepreter
remembers the director and her work with him during the production of
OFFRET (Sscrifice)
Cinema Papers.n63.May 1987 p.10-12 lang.ENG
Review
Sight and Sound.v56.n2.Spring 1987 p.spring 111-118 lang.ENG
Analysis.
Listener.v117.n2996.29 Jan 1987 p.16 lang.ENG
Summary of the documentary about making of SACRIFICIO.
Listener.v117.n2994.15 Jan 1987 p.29 lang.ENG
Review
City Limits.n275.8 Jan 1987 p.25 lang.ENG
Review
Time Out.n855.7 Jan 1987 p.30 lang.ENG
Review
Monthly Film Bulletin.v54.n636.January 1987 p.7-8 lang.ENG
Review
Filmfaust.n56/57.Jan/Feb 1987 p.34-35 lang.GER
Review
Film (BFFS).v3.n1.January 1987 p.4 lang.ENG
Review
Time Out.n854.31 Dec 1986 p.20-22 lang.ENG
Article, with comments from actor Erland Josephson and producer Anna-
-Lena Wibom.
Sight and Sound.v55.n4.Autumn 1986 p.Autumn 284-285 lang.ENG
Review
Films and Filming.n384.September 1986 p.43 lang.ENG
Review
Jeune Cin‚ma.n175.July 1986 p.37-39 lang.FRE
Review
Cahiers du Cin‚ma.n386.Jul/Aug 1986 p.12-13 lang.FRE
Review.
Cahiers du Cin‚ma.n386.Jul/Aug 1986 p.14-15 lang.FRE
Series of stills from the central sequence of the film.
Cin‚matographe.n120.June 1986 p.68 lang.FRE
Review
Positif.n304.June 1986 p.24-26 lang.FRE
Review
Cahiers du Cin‚ma.n385.June 1986 p.14-17 lang.FRE
Review
Chaplin.n204.June 1986 p.150-153 lang.SWE
Review
Film Fran?ais.n2089.16 May 1986 p.10 lang.FRE
Credits and synopsis.
Variety.14 May 1986 p.14 lang.ENG
Review
Scandinavian Film News.v6.n1.May 1986 p.1-2 lang.ENG
Excerpt from a diary written during shooting.
Positif.n303.May 1986 p.3-12 lang.FRE
Background.
T‚l‚rama.n1864.2 Oct 1985 p.22-25 lang.FRE
Production report with comments from Tarkovsky.
Hollywood Reporter.v288.n14.13 Aug 1985 p.41 lang.ENG
Credits.
Kino-Information.v12.n16.8 Aug 1985 p.3 lang.GER
Production notes.
Screen International.n481.26 Jan 1985 p.8 lang.ENG
Details.
Scandinavian Film News.v4.n4.December 1984 p.3 lang.ENG
Location note.
Film-Echo/Filmwoche.n48.31 Aug 1984 lang.GER
Review ilm-Echo/Filmwoche.n48.31 Aug 1984 p.13 lang.GER
Details.
Time Out.n729.9 Aug 1984 p.22 lang.ENG
Note.
Screen International.n450.16 Jun 1984 p.10 lang.ENG
Review
Film-Echo/Filmwoche.n14.9 Mar 1984 lang.GER
Review
Film-Echo/Filmwoche.n14.9 Mar 1984 p.10 lang.GER
Note.
Film og Kino.n4.1966 p.9-10 lang.NOR
Review
*****
THE SACRIFICE will be showing as part of a special film festival at the
Sweetwater Center for the Arts
200 Broad Street
Sewickley, PA 15143
phone: 412.741.4405
The link is ....
http://www.artsnet.org/sweetwater/indexB.html
Good luck!
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