I'm bouncing up and down with happiness. *bounce bounce* My Solaris Criterion Collection DVD came via UPS today (again with that Super-Saver shipping, but this time it took less than a day and a half to reach me)! Now I can puzzle anew at that five minute cars-on-the-freeway scene and revel in this restored and remastered cut. Tarkovsky rewlz.

And also on the subject of Solaris, I saw the new movie this weekend. Pretty fricking great, really. Definitely not an action-packed pyrotechnic extravaganza, but not quite the tender love story some of the commercials make it out to be. It starts about where the Tarkovsky one does but gradually takes steps farther afield and ends in an altogether different manner.

It poses a lot of questions about the nature of love, memory, existence, attachment, etc., but deliberately avoids answering them. It's a movie you'll keep thinking about long after you leave the theater. Please go see it.