He is the most influential Russian cinema genius after Sergei Eisenstein, and his films are regularly listed among the best in cinema history. From Christopher Nolan and Guillermo del Toro, to Krzysztof Keslevsky and Lars von Trier, many leading people in cinema have admitted their love for Tarkovsky.
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Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin
Douglas Trumbull had previously brought his VFX experience to film on such groundbreaking classics as 2001, but Silent Running – a sort of proto-Wall-E, with humanity facing the demise of its natural resources – let him loose as a director. Bruce Dern plays Freeman Lowell, one of several crew members on a greenhouse vessel that carries some of the few remaining plants from a ruined Earth. But when his ship is ordered to destroy the vegetation and return, Lowell mutinies and continues to tend his foliage with the help of three memorable robo-assistants. It s by turns dramatic, quiet, and reflective, an environmental warning that refrains from throwing its message in your face.