On the Silver Globe

Ah yes, the odd polish sci-fi movie. Keeping in mind that almost a fifth of the movie is forever lost, due to the Cultural Ministry of Poland seizing the mastercopy and cancelling the rest of the production period, it doesn't really feel as if your missing any of the plot. Let me rephrase that. All of the plot feels like it's missing. But fear not, for are you able to accept that the movie should be felt more along the lines of a piece of mystical art, then you're in for quite an experience.

Somewhat unrateable. But one cannot deny the fact that this is a completely unique and spectacular film experience.

Not at all for me, thank you very much.

On the Silver Globe is overflowing with good ideas, but much like how any song, no matter how good, will inevitably become unlistenable when cranked up loud enough, so too does this movie begin to grate on the brain with what can best be described as assaultive density. So it's seldomly an enjoyable watch and never an easy one, but for the right kind of weirdo, it's totally worth it.

Mostly great costume and set design; the rest is more or less totally meaningless, pretentious drivel.

The "Terry Gilliam on acid" visual style and the insistingly hysterical acting got a bit too much to endure for two and a half hour straight, but at the same time there were some beautiful imagery and original ideas. Part religious allegory, part off-beat sci-fi epic and part bat-shit crazy, this was definitely an interesting watch, if not a good one as such.

might be the most ridiculously overbloated and incoherent film i have ever seen. yet zulawski surely had the feeling he was creating the most important piece of art of all time. if you want to watch it make sure you are shit faced drunk and this could be quite an experience.

The first section of this is perfect - everything with the 'Old Man' and the fractured new-wave-esqe editing. The rest of it is still great but it starts to make even less sense as it goes along.

Production design, locations, costumes, makeup 10/10. Have of the movie with actors wailing and shouting their poetic and sometimes nonsense lines 1/10. Documentary "Escape to the silver globe" brings more light to the production but does not make the film any better.

This is the film the Zardoz crew would have made if they were slightly less high. The production is incredible - sets and costumes alone kept me interested for over two hours. There's a genuine epic feel to it, though it gets a bit lost in incoherence and constantly ruptured by obnoxious overacting. Everyone involved is eating all the scenery all the time. Its shortcomings can be forgiven by its circumstances. Recommended viewing.

Visually striking but this was mostly people shouting absolute nonsense at each other in various barren locations.

more admirable than enjoyable. first hour was very good, and it remains visually interesting all the way through, but after a while it just becomes a bit of a headache-inducing shouty mess tbh

One of the more remarkable sci-fi films I've seen. In true Andrzej Zulawski form, this is very unrestrained, through cinematography and the performances. I wasn't a big fan of the stream-of-consciousness dialogue that sometimes got tiresome, but it does suit the wild nature of this film, as does the bandaid scenes that patch up this unfinished work, making the film surprisingly even more extraordinary.

Viewed October 22, 2016.

An often incoherent, always visually and aurally arresting, mesmerising mess. Zulawski's style doesn't do anything by half measures - characters roar in fury or start waxing philosophical at the camera for no particular reason, cameras swoop, bold imagery is hurled at the screen and actors turn their everything up to 11 just because they can. He crafts this fascinating, entrancing, strange cinematic world and whilst exhausting to watch I didn't want to leave it even after two and a half hours.

Although unfinished, this is a very fascinating film that deserves to be seen. Definitely not for the faint-hearted, and by no means an conventional film, this is for those who appreciate balls-out existentialism. Over-the-top acting and religious symbolism included. Truly unique.

Masterpiece of irrationality.

indulgent. madcap. sublime. naseuous

Highly recommended for audiences who love hysteria and hate subtlety. For everyone else, a bad trip, seventies style. The hilarious part comes from thinking that state authorities at the time viewed the film as a threat to their very existence. Despite the fact that many audiences seem to have a completely different opinion about this film than mine, I feel obliged to warn new viewers: enter at own risk.

Dune for goths.

"On the Silver Globe takes raging philosophical bites on the subject of ethical freedom." - Jeremiah Kipp

36. İstanbul Film Festivali - Atlas Sineması.

It would have been masterpiece, so sad that we will see it in it's true form.

Found that it contains cinematic influence on later works such as "Hard to Be a God." A sci-fi stopped short of it's conclusion on how deadly life's constructs become, from the beginning of early civilization. Violence naturally emerges, and the fact Zulawski was forced to stop filming says a lot about it's layers.

It's a 3hour deathbed that won't stop shrieking. Dying is hard and rarely will you find it so tangible and desperate on film, but there's still solace somewhere in here. Also, Poland destroying all of the costumes from this is unforgivable, they are BREATHTAKING.