Soderbergh’s Solaris: A Superior Hollywood Remake Patrick Nabarro August 22, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion Steven Soderbergh has always been a filmmaker who belies easy stereotyping. His prolificness and his chameleon-like ability to switch between genres, between the arthouse and the mainstream, have always made...
La Belle Dame Sans Merci: Tarkovsky’s Reinvention of the Femme Fatale in Solaris Patrick Nabarro April 4, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features In John Keats’ haunting poem about the elusiveness of perfect love, ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ (translation: "The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy"), the poem’s main conduit, the Knight, recounts a...