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Andrei Tarkovsky

Tarkovsky's contemplative, metaphysical films, more experienced than watched, are perhaps best described in the director's own words: sculptures in time.

In the post-apocalypse, a writer and scientist hire a "stalker" to guide them into The Zone, a mysterious and restricted wasteland with fabled, alien properties. Their journey, captured by Tarkovsky as a succession of incredible images, has, since, been read as political commentary, religious allegory, and Chernobyl prophesized.

Tarkovsky's visionary biography of the 15th-century icon painter is one of cinema's most majestic and solemn experiences. In some way, it will change you.

An adaptation of Stanis?aw Lem's novel of the same name, Tarkovsky's genre-less sci-fi film, which is set mostly aboard a space station hovering off a strange planet, tangles with issues of identity, death and reality in a way that will leave you agape, in the full meaning.

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Rush Hour 3 Getting Ready to Roll

By EdwardHavens

January 2nd, 2002

Word out of New Line has it that the third part has been gaining momentum in recent weeks. Having enjoyed their biggest year ever, the former New York indie house is said to be pushing on all the major players to get number three going this year.


We hear various scenarios are already being farmed out to writers. Execs are trying to make room on Brett Ratner and Jackie Chan's schedules, and Chris Tucker is sitting around, waiting for the man to say "Yes" to his $25M plus 15% dollar one gross points demands.