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Stalker
Film Description 'Beware of your dreams for you may become them', warned Vonnegut. The battle between science, faith and art is played out in the Zone, a mysterious, forbidden wasteland where, as in Solaris, dreams become flesh. Tarkovsky creates his most disturbing vision of a dislocated world where the atmosphere of anxious uncertainty becomes almost another character. Haunting and possessed of a desolate beauty, the film poses the seductive question of whether the dreaming of dreams or the attaining of them is better. Black-and-white and colour.
Film Information
DVD Extras Optional original Mono soundtrack or Dolby 5:1; Includes stills, biographies, filmographies, interviews with DP and production designer, extracts from Tarkovsky's diploma film 'The Steamroller And The Violin'.
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Review by Hiran Leanage on 6th August 2002 In reality, a film of two halves; the first building the very tangible tension experienced by the central characters with a magnificent use of sound, (mono)colour and lush, despoiled city and country scapes. The second is approximately 60 mins too long.
Review by Ed Crooks on 14th October 2002 Tarkovsky's Stalker may well be his most well balanced and satisfying film. No shot or sequence is unnecessary, no false notes are struck. The mysterious, indescribable elements which he would build on in Nostalgia and The Sacrifice are here more as one with the 'realist' sections. There are sequences as thrilling, as moving and as gripping as anywhere else in cinema. Tarkovsky takes one into the world he has conjured, and leads one so deep that once seen, the film will slowly work into your subconscious and you will never be free of it. The majority of the sequences cannot be put into words, Stalker is closer to poetry than narrative cinema and nearer to ‘masterpiece’ than most other films you may see.
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Review by Peter Warring on 14th February 2000 Stark, eerie, cerebral story of title character (Kaidanovsky), who guides intellectuals Grinko and Solonitsin through the "Zone," a mysterious, forbidden waste land. Very slow but well-acted and rewarding. A must in colour. View more reviews by Peter Warring
Article - "Andrei Tarkovsky - Dreams / Morality / Freedom"
by John Davies
Andrei Tarkovsky died in 1986 at the age of just 54. His seven feature films, commencing with Ivan's Childhood in 1962, form one of the greatest and most individual bodies of work in cinema. Whether nominally making films in the areas of war, medieval histor... View article in full
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Solaris (Tarkovsky)
Nostalgia
Mirror
Andrei Rublev
Ivans Childhood
