Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5022655000452
Format: Black & White, Colour, PAL, Subtitled
Label: Connoisseur Video
Languages: EnglishSubtitledRussianOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: Connoisseur Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Connoisseur Video
Release Date: January 24, 2000
Running Time: 155 minutes
Studio: Connoisseur Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1979

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Rating: - Like an empty christmas tree
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.

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 ... Read More

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Rating: - and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time
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, ... Read More

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Rating: - Philistines beware
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, ... Read More

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Rating: - STALKER.
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.
This is a very subtle gritty film. Consider this a paradox on celluloid.
Atmosphere is created in a very unique way using, silence, imagery & character interaction.
Subtitles give this something extra & I'm glad films keep their original language.
When viewing this film. Open you mind as well as your eyes.

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Rating: - Peeling back the raw centre
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.

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 ... Read More

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