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July 2023

  • Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy.

    From the Guardian archive
    ‘You laugh as you’re choking’: a selection of Derek Malcolm’s seminal film reviews

    The Guardian’s longstanding film critic, who has died aged 91, was known for his insight into blockbusters and art pictures alike. Here are excerpts from his takes on Solaris, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Malcolm X and more

February 2023

  • Erin Brockovich, Out of Sight, Magic Mike and sex, lies and videotape.

    From Out of Sight to Magic Mike: our writers pick their favourite Soderbergh films

    With the release of Magic Mike’s Last Dance, Guardian writers argue why their Steven Soderbergh pick is better than the rest

September 2022

  • ‘All I had to do was make him look like a hero’ … Renato Casaro’s artwork for Rambo: First Blood Part II.

    The Michelangelo of the movie poster: Renato Casaro picks his best film art

    His windswept, airbrushed canvases have given shape to landmark films for decades, from Solaris to Dances With Wolves. Now 86, the designer looks back at his highlights

May 2020

  • A strange kind of psychological horror … Donatas Banionis and Natalya Bondarchuk in Solaris.

    The classic film I've never seen
    I've never seen … Solaris

    Tarkovsky’s mysterious epic – a response to the ‘phoniness’ of 2001: A Space Odyssey – draws you into its melancholic dreamworld superbly

August 2019

  • Matt Canavan

    'Bunch of bedwetters': Matt Canavan attacks Aurecon for cutting ties with Adani

    Resources minister defends his extraordinary spray accusing engineering firm of being ‘weak as piss’ and giving in to anti-coal ‘bullies’

June 2019

  • Leeanna Walsman (right) as Kelvin in rehearsal for the Malthouse Theatre’s adaptation of Solaris.

    ‘What is Solaris?’: sci-fi classic gets gender-flipped for mainstage adaptation

    David Greig and Matthew Lutton take on the somewhat impregnable cult story, which premieres in Australia before transferring to Scotland

July 2015

  • Stills from some of Mosfilm's classics on the wall of the studio today

    New East network
    Russian film studio hopes to take on Hollywood after £300m investment

    Studio behind greatest Soviet movies gets new lease of life thanks to hefty investment from former Putin deputy. The Moscow Times reports

November 2014

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick

    2001: A Space Odyssey review – still visionary after all these years

    This is a timely rerelease of the Kubrick classic that influenced a generation of sci-fi films, writes Peter Bradshaw

January 2014

  • Solaris score montage

    Exclusive: highlights from the Solaris soundtrack – video

    Check out an exclusive 13-minute excerpt from Cliff Martinez's Solaris soundtrack, accompanied by a montage from the 2002 film

March 2013

  • Solaris - review

    Caspar Llewellyn Smith: Inspired by a sci-fi classic, Ben Frost and Daniel Bjarnason's Solaris proved satisfyingly unsettling

June 2011

  • Natalya Bondarchuk and Donatas Banionis in a still from Tarkovsky’s 1973 film version of Solaris.

    First ever direct English translation of Solaris published

    Stanisław Lem’s 1961 classic has only previously been available translated from a ‘poor’ French version

October 2010

  • Solaris

    The 25 best sci-fi and fantasy films of all time
    Solaris: No 6 best sci-fi and fantasy film of all time

    Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972

December 2008

  • TV pick of the week
    Film picks

    Kingdom of Heaven | The Invasion | Solaris

March 2008

  • Out of this world

    Sue Arnold on Matter | Solaris | The Invisible Man | Northern Lights

January 2008

  • In-between days

    Eric Brown on Omega | The Solaris Book of New Fantasy | Cybele's Secret | The Last Legion

April 2007

  • TV pick of the week
    Film picks

    Paul Howlett on The Merchant of Venice | Solaris | Hostage

April 2006

  • This week's highlights

    Sharpe's Challenge | Mob Week | Michael Carroll: King Of Chavs | Suburban Shootout | Solaris | The Simpsons | Hotel Rwanda | Pimp My Ride UK | The Edukators

  • Stanislaw Lem

    Science fiction writer and eastern bloc peer of Arthur C Clarke whose much misunderstood works included Solaris.
  • This week's highlights

    Ghostboat | The Great British Menu | Panorama | Every Parent's Nightmare | The Street | The Piano Teacher | Solaris | Kings Of Country | Beckett Night

March 2006

  • Stanisław Lem

    Solaris author Stanisław Lem dies aged 84

    The Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem, shortlisted for the inaugural Man Booker international award last year, died yesterday in Kraków, Poland, aged 84.
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