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| Stalker [1979] | ![Stalker [1979]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5176BQK395L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Alisa Frejndlikh, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Natasha Abramova
Studio: Artificial Eye
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (32 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1335
Format: Black White, Colour, Full Screen, Pal
Languages: Russian (Original Language), Cantonese Chinese (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Hebrew (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Japanese (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Russian (Subtitled)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: DVD
Running Time: 155 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5021866215303
ASIN: B000065BZ8
Release Date: April 22, 2002
Theatrical Release Date: 1979
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 Like an empty christmas tree December 10, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
This 1979 movie is like an empty Christmas tree; you can hang all your dumb metaphors on it. And good luck to you. Truthfully, this movie had me captivated for the first 60-70 minutes until the 3 men made it into the Zone and started talking complete metaphsical/wishey washey/pseudo intellectual garbage.br /br /Ignore all the arty-farty analysis of this 'classic' movie because this is one truly boring film. The only consolation that can be had from watching this film is if you do so with lots of snacks. While you slowly empty your head at least you will be able to fill your tummy. br /br /Regarding the plot, three men make it into the Zone (guarded by soldiers) which apparently contains a magic room where wishes come true. Exciting stuff. We follow the men on their travels as they talk nonsense, drink vodka, bump into a stray dog, fall asleep in a shallow river, talk some more nonsense as the day gets dark, walk along a while, take another nap near a river looking anguished, still talking, and attracting stray dogs. br /br /They pause and one says something perhaps profound like "Life can be difficult but we somehow survive". Closeup of another man looking down into some muddy water. Walk some more. Stop and one man says something equally profound, something like "Stalking is all I know. I have not been able to stop." br /br /They probably made to the room and made their wishes because something important happens at the end.....br /br /
 and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time October 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Watching Tarkovsky's Stalker was not an enjoyable experience, but it did make something about his achievement much clearer to me. In this film, and in most of his work that I have seen, Tarkovsky tells the viewer nothing: no plot, no characters, no resolution. He sets up an ambience through beautifully textured photography and lighting, stunning command of soundscapes, and a carefully undefined nexus of meaning. Then he allows the viewer to create a meaning. For some it is an overwhelming experience, for others a bore. This is not cinema as we normally know it but much closer to the effect of great poetry. It is sound and setting used as metaphor by means of which we can create what we can. Or not.br /br /Forget the Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic (just as you had to forget Lem's Solaris when watching Tarkovsky's film of the same name). There is something called the Zone, but we don't know what it is, where or why it occurred. For the confused or troubled, something inside the Zone can provide a revelation. What it is or how it works we don't know. It's perimeter is guarded, but we don't know who guards it or why. Three men enter the Zone, we don't really know why, nor who they are. Viewers who claim to know more are reading information from the novel's plot, or quoting other viewers who are.br /br /The Stalker (think of one of Fenimore Cooper's characters like the Deerstalker), the Writer, the Scientist are on a journey like Dante's. They seem confused and inarticulate, but they do know something is wrong, and they hope to remedy it, somehow, within the Zone. The Stalker is as driven as the other two. Tarkovsky suggests what the men are seeking by filming outside the Zone, a sterile no man's land of ruin, in a washed out sepia, and inside the Zone, a lush natural tangle of vegetation, in vibrant colour.br /br /Stalker is about the search for redemption, filmed in such a way the viewer must conduct the search themselves. Unlike Solaris, whose themes of love and memory were presented in the form of a screenplay the viewer could engage with, Stalker is a much more extreme film which approaches the limit of what a film can do. It is a film which can have no clear climax, no rationale, no explanation. The journey is the important part. br /br /I regret the fact my rational self would not let go while watching it, that I thought the lack of proper names risible and just like everybody's first novel, that the contrast between inside and outside the Zone was too obvious. I hated that the film was unnecessarily divided over two disks as it was for VHS release and that the subtitles were sometimes in such bad English they were hard to follow. This time around it wasn't for me. Maybe next time.
 Philistines beware October 16, 2008
The first shot is of a squalid, rotting interior filmed in harsh monochrome, and yet it is utterly beautiful and mysterious. Tarkovsky the cinematic poet was never more eloquent than in this film, conveying an almost unearthly beauty in the most rank and earthy materials, and a primal intensity in seemingly irrelevant interactions. The dreamlike atmosphere is always threatening to plunge into nightmare, creating a tension which is brilliantly maintained. The characters avoid communicating anything real, yet the sense of impending personal catastrophe is overwhelming. Few artists are able to create new myths, not least in cinema, but here Tarkovsky has made a perfect and stunningly resonant fable for our time.
 STALKER. September 18, 2008
Bought this with an open mind, watched the entire film 3 times have completely changed my opinion to not liking this film to loving it.br /This is a very subtle gritty film. Consider this a paradox on celluloid.br /Atmosphere is created in a very unique way using, silence, imagery character interaction. br /Subtitles give this something extra I'm glad films keep their original language.br /When viewing this film. Open you mind as well as your eyes. br /
Peeling back the raw centre August 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an amazing film which defies labelling. It is certainly not sci-fi, but is set in an imaginary landscape of industrial ruins, empty of people and permeated by a mysterious force of nature which is threatening even as it preserves. br /br /There is a storyline - see other reviews - but the film is essentially about human integrity and the failed quest by some conventional 'heroic' figures from the Soviet Union - the writer, the scientist, the engineer etc - to find meaning in a specific, material spot. br /br /The pot-holed, jagged and overgrown territory of 'the zone' is the true hero of the film - along with the nervous, faithful, uninspiring but true person of the 'stalker', the man who knows how to get into the zone and how to find the dripping cellar where reality exists.This is a poetic film to be savoured with a soul-mate or two and demands rapt attention.br /
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