Although Lem was largely right in his criticisms, because Tarkovsky did use his story to fulfill his own intentions, I consider Solaris to be successful film.
Several American critics wrote that The Silent Star / First Spaceship On Venus is the best-looking cosmic SF film of those years produced outside Hollywood.
Pilot Pirx's Inquest is quite watchable. This is due to the absolutely serious treatment of the subject matter by the director. The charade on the Goliath...
Red Circle is an exemplary representative of the French crime movie. The film is simple, but the minimalism used in it has a positive effect on...
Death in Venice is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of European cinema. It's considered perfect translation of literary text into the language of film
Destiny deserves the title of a pinnacle achievement of expressionism. Horror and science fiction owe much to German "outdated products" like this one.
Ingmar Bergman wrote the script for Wild Strawberries during his almost two-month stay at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm.