Movie Details
| Title: | Stalker | |
| Director: | Andrei Tarkovsky | |
| Year: | 1979 | |
| Genre: | Science Fiction | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 12.10.20 |
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| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 12.10.20 | Blu-ray | This Screening is part of event: DVRfest 2020 Roll: 18 Man, I'm pulling some long movies today. It's for the best though, since this is probably the only way to force me to watch these supposedly amazing movies that i only know as being long and slow. This is a perfect example. It's... probably? my first Tarkovsky movie? Other than a 15-minute clip I saw in a video game once. I've heard nothing but amazing things about this movie. Let's see how I like it. ...I watched it. My immediate reaction is that I didn't get much out of it. I recognize that a lot of what the three people talk about... the whole time... made no sense to me, really. And even for a movie this "relaxed" in pace, there didn't seem to be much of a point... to anything, which really made it feel like time well spent. But I'm also maybe a little cognizant of the fact that this is my first taste of anything like this. I mean, I only have the Soderbergh Solaris remake and a 15-minute segment of Nostalgia to go on here... so Tarkovsky's cinematic lexicon is unfamiliar to me. So maybe I shouldn't be too put out that I found this impenetrable in much the same way that I find Satyajit Ray's work or Ozu. But still, it wasn't much fun to sit through. I will say that a lot of the scenery and compositions were striking. It made me wonder where it was shot so I looked it up and found out that Tenet shot in the same city, which is coincidental and cool. I still wonder how dressed these sets were... if they were found like how 1990 Bronx Warriors used Queens as-is to represent a post apocalyptic wasteland, or if they were meticulously constructed to have some soviet symbolic representation that I'm not aware of. I could really use a 90-minute doc explaining the movie... but I'm also ready to move on. Maybe some day. Ok, Next. and I have to say... after these two I'm really ready for something with pep. Looking at the possibilities, there are more land mines than ever. |
