An excerpt from our interview with the writer, featured on our release of Andrei Tarkovsky's metaphysical journey through a enigmatic postapocalyptic world.
This man said exactly what i was thinking the first time i saw Stalker, it's amazing to hear that a person can feel the same way that you in how beautiful this movie is. That scene is gonna be on my mind forever.
@@shiggs5260 Criterion contains both. It simply contains films that are not seen in the mainstream essentially. About Neil Breen and Tommy Wiseau, their films follow the "it's too bad it's good" type of film. They also have devoted fan bases for them and exist in their own bubble. I do think they belong in Criterion. There is an air of worth to these films.
Picked this up along with Obayashi's House while this sale's still going on. Heard a lot of great things about them both so I'm hoping they jut add to the other great blind buys I've encountered.
I got to watch Stalker for the first time tonight (well... I tried once before and fell asleep) in an actual movie theater. Transcendental cinema. This scene stuck out to me as a true achievement.
I think it was shot in black and white and tinted with sepia after the fact. If you’ve seen any silent horror films from the 20’s particularly the German ones, this technique is also used.
I was waiting for this edition for a long time, thank you, Criterion. Please, please make the DRIVE CC. I know that it would be a huge hit in the collection.
Although the definition is much better, the vibrancy of the colours doesn't seem as intense and beautiful as on my Artificial Eye/Curzon copy of this DVD. This is probably my favorite film though so I'll still justify getting it on Criterion.
I love the concept of this movie. I LOVE the video game STALKER, and the book. But this movie bores me to sleep every time. The entire movie is context, which is unique but rather boring.
There's no accounting for taste. This film is a spiritual/metaphysical allegory (and one of the most magical things I've ever seen put on to celluloid). The book (though interesting) was much more prosaic, standard sci-fi fare. Maybe that's more your thing. What Tarkovsky produced from the source material is something entirely different: poetic, mysterious, deeply meditative, transcendent, even psychedelic. I like the anecdote about when Tarkovsky was making Stalker, and some representative from the Soviet film bureau was looking at the first shots of the film and said, "It's too slow." Tarkovsky responded, "Actually, it's not slow enough. It needs to be even slower, so that people who have come into the wrong theater will realize it and leave."
