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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Jan 10, 2012
Pros: ?
Cons: 134 minutes of almost always ugly tedium, bonus disc without anything from Tarkovsky
Summary: I felt (perhaps wrongly) that, before reading Geoff Dyer’s new Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room, I should watch the film, that is, “Stalker,” directed by the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 18, 2010
Pros: poetic
Cons: can be agony for people who like movies to move
Summary: The Zone in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979), made for Mosfilm of the USSR, is a mysterious region, a Bermuda Triangle of the countryside, in a near future allegorical Russia, cordoned-off for 20 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 17, 2008
Pros: masterpiece of cinematic creation and a meditation on what it all means to be human
Cons: slow at points
Summary: Stalker is a religious film that reminds the viewer of his spiritual commitments. A piece of land called The Zone, reportedly has been affected by aliens and inside the land mass sits a bunker in which a room has the power to deliver whatever is ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 26, 2006
Pros: Wonderful use of score, cinematography, long takes, and dialogue. Amazing film!
Cons: Nothing. However, the UK's Artificial Eye edition is the best one.
Summary: Stalker is perhaps Andrei Tarkovsky's most accessible film as well as his most powerful. Those two factors are rare in cinema. However, Tarkovsky is master of cinema as well as a cinematic genius. This film justifies both. The premise for Stalker is ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 18, 2006
Pros: Outstanding cinematography; challenging premise; demanding, sometime abstruse, viewing experience
Cons: Demanding, at times abstruse, viewing experience.
Summary: “You dream of one thing but you get quite another.” [Writer, Stalker]. A “stalker” is a person who guides people through “The Zone,” a place outside an unidentified city that exists as the result of an ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 15, 2000
Pros: As all other Tarkovsky movies, this one is like a Rembrandt painting coming to life.
Cons: Cons? Are you kidding me?!
Summary: Andrei Tarkovsky's film "Stalker" relates to those typical Hollywood movies, as the painting of a great master relates to photographs published in "Esquire". In the era of tyranny of mediocre film production that brainwashed younger ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 14, 2000
Pros: This is a true cinematic experience
Cons: It may not appeal to everyone; requires an open mind
Summary: I remember watching "The Stalker" for the first time in a crowded room full of
college buddies. We were playing cards, drinking, talking loud, etc. In one corner of the room, the TV was on and one guy was planning to watch a new ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 12, 2000
Pros: a film that you never forget
Cons: a little long
Summary: Stalker is a Russian tale by one of the greatest directors that ever lived.
Tarkovsky calms the film down a few notches with amazing cinematography. This film is definitely a masterpiece.
It is set during the cold war, where war ... read more
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