in spite of his concerns with the metaphysical/religious/spiritual (maybe implied, or maybe i just misinterpret) not being ones i resonate with, i nonetheless find his films very appealing. i get the same kind of awe as when looking at a magnificent cathedral or stained-glass window - they don't make me believe in god or the afterlife, but they are magnificent.
i got more 'psychological' than spiritual stuff from them - memory, desire, regret - though from certain angles those kinds of feelings sometimes verge on something more 'profound'
he made me appreciate the visual details of things more, and his fascination with rain/trickling/dripping water has something almost sensually/biologically resonant about it (iirc there is a few-seconds shot in 'nostalgia' of rainwater droplets hitting bottles/jars in sunlight - delicate and transitory beauty, all colourbursting microrainbows & gentle chiming , created in the midst of a grotty hovel from 'miserable' weather and a leaky roof...) solaris is my favourite - it is the only one i have seen more than once - nostalgia second fav - stalker/andrei rublev/the sacrifice all pretty equal to me i have never got to a cinema to see 'mirror' grrrr
(and ha yes don't go to a hot cinema when short of sleep to see one - this was my downfall at the ica cinema's showing of andrei rublev - iirc (it was 20 yrs ago so i may not) it was at least 3hrs 30min long and i slept through approx 30 mins in the middle...)
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 12:37 (twenty years ago) link
I never seem to go to the cinema. : (((
I wish cozen would make me.
I will keep an eye open for showings. thanks, ray.
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 12:59 (twenty years ago) link
I don't know what's happening to me, because my tolerance for long-held shots used to be so low that I needed films like Requiem for a Dream and Run Lola Run. Now, I'm to the point where Stalker's shots didn't really strike me as all that long, all told. Perhaps because so many of them are moving, panning, or tracking shots.
But, yeah, gorgeous film. As of yet one of only two Tarkovskys I've seen (Solaris), but I can't wait to catch Nostalghia and Mirror.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:03 (twenty years ago) link
although i suppose i prefer long shots that have a painterly aspect, that observes one or another principal of interesting composition--which really is most of the long take films that are most respected; i've seen a film by philippe garrel which seemed purposely drab and affectless and even artless in its long takes, and it tested my patience (i take that phrase seriously, i think it's good sometimes to test your patience)
i've never seen "nostalghia" or "the sacrifice"
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago) link
thanks. make me aware of upcoming trips!
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:30 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Janne (Janne), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:30 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:31 (twenty years ago) link
they are presenting 'alphaville' as an architectural film, here, too. they say it is a reorganisation of the city [paris] and its component parts. they also said something about strewn and 'like a situationist map'!!!! I've seen it.
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:34 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:36 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:38 (twenty years ago) link
― J2Dancer, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 23:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:25 (twenty years ago) link
Huh, I now recall the peculiar circumstances (the very early 80s, Moscow of all places) of watching Rublev myself...
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:18 (twenty years ago) link
stalker, funnily enough, was the film i had least patience. like, ive seen most of his films but that was the first time i got a bit fidgety. but i really wanted to fall asleep.
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:00 (twenty years ago) link
― !!!! (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:58 (twenty years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago) link
― !!!! (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago) link
― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 29 May 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
it just seems like lots of things in this movie were absurdly stretched out for minimal payoffs. how many times do i have to watch stalker take a nap??
exceptions: the trolley ride into the zone was great, the part where they are taking a nap in the creek is great, too, where we see all the different bits of detritus in the stream.
― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Monday, 29 May 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Monday, 29 May 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Monday, 29 May 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 29 May 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 29 May 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 May 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 29 May 2006 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Maybe I will go rent Rublev tonight!
― The Boy Who Cried YSI? (Freud Junior), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link
how about a 9-hour documentary on decaying abandoned chinese factories??
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 04:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
I liked Andrei Rublev, though.
― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
(genuinely curious, not be snarky)
― erklie (erklie), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Shadow_of_Chernobyl
― ☪, Thursday, 5 July 2007 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
this movie is also at fantasia film fest... everyone seems to say it's worth checking so i may do so! i amde a thread for the fest, as well.
― Will M., Thursday, 5 July 2007 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
this is one of the best films ever!
and it's not boring!
― poortheatre, Thursday, 5 July 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I should've gone.
― RJG, Thursday, 5 July 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
it better be not boring! I am going to see it, and if I fall asleep like i did in solaris...
― Will M., Thursday, 5 July 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Probably the most beautiful movie I've ever seen that looks like it was filmed in a vat of toxic sewage (in other words, this film has got to be the Russian equivalent of "The Conqueror", no?)
― Joe, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 01:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i saw this with a group of friends the other night and loved it. it's really beautiful, although it kind of killed everyone's desire to go out drinking afterward.
it brought to mind lots of things that were made later...cube, house of leaves, lots of video games (half-life 2, fallout 3, uh, super mario bros).
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 14 September 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Watching Stalker for the first time was actually life-changing, inasmuch as it totally rewired my brain's way of thinking about landscape, art and even time.
Currently reading the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer which feels like it is consciously riffing off the Zona/Roadside Picnic/Stalker (as did M. John Harrison in his Kefahuchi Tract books). Really good.
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 01:15 (one year ago) link
The film of Annihilation definitely plays off of Stalker too.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 01:19 (one year ago) link
except, sucks
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 02:26 (one year ago) link
I don't suppose anyone managed to save the 4K Stalker before it disappeared?
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 03:00 (one year ago) link
I enjoyed Annihilation for its proggy trippiness.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 03:05 (one year ago) link
you mean on blu-ray? can't find anything about this. link?
xp
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 04:54 (one year ago) link
oh wait, you're talking about the mosfilm yt upload. seems strange that it got pulled when the others are still up there.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 05:01 (one year ago) link
I think it's most likely geoblocked? Might try to find a solution.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 06:15 (one year ago) link
Mosfilm has so much good stuff up. The other day I watched a 90's comedy about a 19th century noblewoman who dreams she works in a canteen in Moscow in the 90's, it basically felt like Traumazone: The Movie.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 08:48 (one year ago) link
what was it called?
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 5 April 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link
Dreams
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link