Scoring Solaris with Cliff Martinez

Writer-director Steven Soderbergh and producer James Cameron teamed up for this stylish adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s 1961 sci-fi novel that was also the source for Andrei Tarkovsky’s classic 1972 film of the same name. When psychologist Chris Kelvin (George Clooney) is sent on a mysterious mission to a space station orbiting the planet Solaris, he finds unthinkable mysteries, as well as an impossible encounter with the love of his life (Natascha McElhone). Soderbergh’s film is romantic, thought provoking, and a feast for the eyes with dazzlingly colorful visual effects, Philip Messina’s lived-in production design, and Soderbergh’s moody widescreen 35mm cinematography (shot under the pseudonym Peter Andrews).