This screening includes Stalker
- Date and time:
- Sun, Sept 24, 2017, From 6:30–9:11 pm
- Runtime:
- 2 hr 41 min
- Cost:
- $4 IUB students, $7 non-students.
Series: International Art House Series, Art House Theater Day
About Stalker
- Year Released:
- 1979
- Genres:
- Drama, Science Fiction
- Metadata:
One of the most immersive and rarefied experiences in the history of cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker embarks on a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic post-apocalyptic landscape. A hired guide—the “Stalker” of the title—leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created a challenging and visually stunning work, his painstaking attention to material detail and sense of organic atmosphere further enriched by this vivid new digital restoration. At once a religious allegory, a reflection of contemporary political anxieties, and a meditation on film itself—among many other interpretations—Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings. In Russian with English subtitles. (2K DCP Presentation)