Stalker (1979)
Oct 7, 2024Alien Affected Zone
One of the greatest of all SF films from Andrei Tarkovsky about a mysterious zone filled with enigmatic alien phenomena at the centre of which exists a room that can grant one’s heart’s desire
Arkady Strugatsky
Hard to Be a God (1989)
Mar 4, 2015Human Observers on a Barbarous Alien World
Adaptation of the Strugatski Brothers' book about human observers becoming involved in the affairs of a barbarous alien society. Essentially a Star Trek Prime Directive story, the Strugatskis didn't much like this version
Inhabited Island (2008)
Sep 21, 2011Russian Science Fiction/Dystopian Planet
Russian adaptation of a classic Soviet-era SF novel from the Srugatski Brothers that plays what was originally a complex social allegory out as an effects extravaganza
Hard to Be a God (2013)
Apr 5, 2015Human Observers on a Barbarous Alien World
A modern cinematic masterpiece? A plotless three-hour work that rubs our face in the squalour of the Middle Ages while feeling like people crowded into a narrow room all trying to do cryptic things at cross-purpose