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- This May at the Film Society, experience the mysteries and revelations of Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 science fiction masterpiece in a new digital restoration. Twenty years ago a falling object decimated a provincial Russian town, and those who later went near the crash site-now known as The Zone-disappeared. Access is strictly prohibited, but outsiders can still get in with the help of a “stalker.” Inside The Zone is The Room, within which secret wishes can be granted. Based on the novel Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers, Stalker is a visually extraordinary and philosophically provocative fable about the limits of knowledge-personal, scientific, and spiritual. New digital restoration by Mosfilm. A Janus Films release.
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When you press pause , you'll see a beautiful piece of art. Go random
Alex This film is so great that even the black gaps between shots look perfect. That’s how great this masterpiece is.
wow, it's true
here's a random timestamp 0:30
I watched this with my extended family. I could hear people's stomachs. No one said a thing.
@@SiliconBong I saw a bald head
The train cart cut from monochrome to colour is one of the greatest pieces of film ever committed.
Tarkovsky was in a league of his own.
I think it is sepia
The whole movie is really just a wizard of oz ripoff...
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Yes 🤩🤩🤩
When that cut happened I realized I had been squinting really hard for the last few minutes. The sudden jump to the lush green and cool blues was like a breath of fresh air to my eyes. Very powerful.
@@bronyatheistfedora Jokes aside, Tarkovsky was very likely familiar with the original Wizard of Oz film, so there's a chance he used that transition deliberately, for the same purpose of switching the worlds.
It’s every filmmakers dream to make a film like this, pure class and a film to be watched by everyone. Recently bought this film on criterion blu Ray and its some treat, absolutely adored it.
Jack Fahy I just finished watching it. I don't get it apparently... Would not recommend.
Ghostus Coyote each is to their own
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Rekis rax j
Listen dude i love movies but this film is not for everyone, Its very slow paced even for me, I was on the edge of sleep for certain parts of the film
Tarkovsky is a damn genius. Solaris and Stalker are the best movies I have ever seen in my life. They change the mind.
I am proud that these films were made by a Soviet person in the USSR. It is strange that such a thing was possible in those years in our country. I was born in 1979 when Stalker was filmed...
Stalker was filmed before 1979... a couple of years back but the footage was messed up so they had to film it again and it released in 1979
I have never, ever seen a film from 1979 or before that looked so damned good. That is a quality print and whoever restored it should be damned proud.
Alien is just the only one I can think of really
2001: A Space Odyssey, made in fucking 1968, so far ahead of its time
Apocalypse Now? 1979 too
You should watch Come and See. One of the best looking films ever made without a doubt
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 70mm.
Btw, 70mm is like near 20k... way more than 4k. Just that restoration to digital or tv screens lowers the quality.
The visuals of this film haven't aged a day.
couldnt agree more!
Woody Harrelson was amazing in this! :P
@@Neon9th his brother from a Russian mother
He's good but robert duvall takes the cake for me
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@@Neon9th Wasilei Harchenkov
The restoration looks SO GOOD
Absolutely.
I hand it, it’s amazing
I got the criterion collection Blu Ray in the mail. Along with “Come and See” and “Solaris.” These are all films I have heard are classics from film buffs.
I have never seen any Russian films prior to “Come and See” so these will be interesting experiences.
MCCrleone354 Yea just got Come and See on criterion and it’s an unbelievably powerful film
michael klein
Unfortunately I didn’t like “Stalker” as much. I know they are different genres but Stalker felt like it was 10 or 20 minutes too long.
This film is an experience and you learn something about yourself as well. You feel like really being there with those 3 in the Zone and taking the journey with them. You can almost smell the world and the decay, the dust and the moss.
doesn't work for everyone
@@rohitfedujwar221 no film does
I'm super late to reply, but fun fact: The only person in the film who actually enters the Room at the end is the camera IE the audience IE You! Hence, did You find what You were looking for in the Zone (the film) or were you disappointed, like Porcupine and the others?
@@astudyofdreams2558 if im not wrong the 3 all got what they wanted in the end. All in their different ways
@@astudyofdreams2558 Wow I really loved that interpretation. My favorite shot in the movie must be the stillness of the room just before the rain starts.
I was always a die hard Kubrick fan. Until i discovered Tarkovsky. Don't get me wrong Kubrick's movies are legendary. But Tarkovsky is pure art man!
Completely different filmmakers, their movies are exact opposites of each other, though I prefer Kubrick, but Tarkovsky is one of the all time greats.
Stalker. A movie so good and hard to mess up, even the video game based on it is considered a masterpiece!
But they're all based on Roadside picnic, no?
@@brunovaz true
it's actually based on both lol
@@brunovaz You know what is really odd about Roadside Picnic/Stalker? They exchanged styles. While the book should have been more poetic, philosophic and descriptive and the movie more action filled the reality is exactly opposite.
Never know games was based on a movie
Somebody said that every frame of Tarkovsky' movies can be printed and hanged in the Art Museums around the world as masterpieces. If you look at the art of cinema as a whole Tarkovsky is such an outlier, it is almost impossible to describe other than "this is just pure magic". Yes, I am well aware of Bergman, Fellini and Kubrick. But they are different. More cerebral if you like. Not an emotional overload. Not saying that Tarkovsky is "better". Just so unique, like he came from different place (planet) and time.
I did my bachelor’s art degree senior thesis on why aren’t certain movies in our art history books yet, like modern art is with photography, sculpture, and paintings? One of my examples was the fact that Schindler’s List is exactly how you described - every frame of it could be printed and hung in an art museum. I hate the fact that the movie is pure trash propaganda (although I didn’t know that when I was young and in college and wrote that paper), but it remains the fact that the cinematography is truly something special and spectacular.
I’ve not seen Stalker yet, but I’ll see if I can track it down based off of what you said.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465some of his camera shots are good, many are pointless or just plain pretentious. Combine that with his need to hold a shot about four times longer than he needs to and you'll be running back to Schindler's list (which I wasn't a big fan of either, tbh)
Same could be said of Sergei Eisenstein
Who said that someone else in the comments?
It is a mistake in the description. The location where all happens definitely is not a “provincial Russian town”, but instead it is a place thoroughly deprivated from any social or cultural links. It is a key component of an entire aesthetic of this movie: these characters can be from everywhere… or from nowhere… they are just humans. In an original novel that was a base of this film, the “Roadside Picnic" of brothers Strugatsky, the location was a provincial small town somewhere in British Commonwealth, mostly likely in Northern Canada. However, “Roadside Picnic” contains a completely another aesthetic and logic from “Stalker”, it is a masterpiece of classical science fiction containing both philosophical approaches and a healthy dose of thrilling adventure. (And, yes, it has no any relation to Chernobyl tragedy, which was happened seven years later than the premiere of “Stalker”!)
I suppose this is the issue with the game becoming more prevalent then the movie or the book it's based off of every strange going ons in eastern Europe is now Chernobyl.
And you're assessment is stunning.
If all English speakers could only do half as well.
@@Plank-cn1we as much as Tarkovsky chafed under the Soviet film censors, i think this is an extraordinarily stupid reading of the movie
@@Plank-cn1we Why do you presume I don't have an opinion? I just don't think it'll be worth my time to attempt to articulate what I think about the film to someone who thinks it's as basic and stupid as "wuoh it's a metaphor for how repressive the Soviet Union was, _man_ "
@@Plank-cn1we all i'm saying is, with a film as rich in meaning as Stalker, it's wack to say it all boils down to something as banal as mere metaphor, especially about such a cliche as "muh repressive Soviet Union", not gonna discuss this further since you don't actually seem interested in good-faith argument
All of Tarkovsky's films are horror films. They're dramas, sure, but they're all paced, edited, sound designed and shot like horror films. His horror is that of the human condition rather than necessarily something supernatural, but it's a completely fair case to say that he is indeed a horror filmmaker - and that it makes sense to edit this trailer as if it is a horror film. Stalker is definitely a quasi-horror film as is The Mirror, or Solaris, but in a poetic and simple way that only a filmmaker like Tarkovsky could pull off.
I wouldn't have said that they are horror films until I saw the fear in my girlfriend's eyes while watching Stalker, especially at the meat grinder scene. Only then I realised that these films strike deep inside the human soul not by giving you jump scares but by making you feel.
Many of lynch's films give off a serious vibe.
I don't agree. He didn't do genre films. Tarkovsky's films were about the interplay between man and nature and the intrusion of machinery. Yet I will confess that his films are rather like inkblots that are well constructed.
Martin Melnick Never saw them like that. The moment of laughter in Stalker and the jumpscare in The Sacrifice are both startling...
I suppose you think Andrei Rubelev's pretty scary, eh?
This is true cinema. It strangles you for a few hours and then says: don't forget to breathe.
One Of The Best Movie Of All Time.
Daily reminder that every Tarkovski film is watchable in YT with a good quality. Such an amazing director, sadly he died so young ..
Sadly, he died as a result of making this film - the chemical waste where they filmed eventually killed him, the actors who played Stalker and Writer, and, supposedly, many of the crew.
@@loge10
There are also theories that he was murdered with weaponized cancer. idk, it's a crazy world out there..
@CazMatazz
Oh I'm sure they've managed to cook up some pretty nasty, aggressive, fast-acting shit in bio-warfare labs.
So exciting. It looks terrific. Finally a restoration!
I'm surprised it took them this long. Stalker is an all time classic!
So wait, is this a restored version of the original? Or a scene for scene remake?
Some comments are a year old, is this out yet? I tried looking for the movie but all I can find is the original Russian version non subbed and not that great looking (quality wise).
I think the passion with which this is done tells how far into eternity one's hearth can reach, being serious about one's existence and feelings towards humanity demands this intense dialog, this poetry. It's just my favorite movie, period.
So awsome how the Russian truck gets caught up on the tracks like that and pulls itself along....just an amazingly filmed shot.
It and English Land Rover Defender. They’re pretty popular in Russia. They have an equivalent made by a company called VAZ
@@funyuns1575 yah I thought it was a YAZ ,or assumed I guess.
Is it perhaps one of the UAZ-469???
I had to look them up.
@@daudenfield2905 sorry I had a spelling mistake. It is an English Land Rover Defender. Land Rover are popular in Russia.
They stopped making the old model in Britain a year or two ago. So they are going to become a collectors car I think as the amount of them in the world goes down.
(In some places in England thieves strip them of parts to sell on the internet as parts are very expensive)
@@funyuns1575 not a Defender but a 88" wheelbase Series
If only tarkovsky hadn't made this masterpiece he would have been alive
One of the most emotive films of all, a journey about the human soul and what motivates us in life.
Absolutely incredible!
This film goes beyond beauty. A new word should be created to encapsulate its haunting majesty, depth and poetry.
The camera work alone is amazing. Hard to believe it’s from 1979. So ahead of time.
1979! USSR.
one of the best films, atmosphere, music, actors
Товарищи, американцы, вот вы умные, такой редкий фильм знаете!
Every scene is vague suggestions, you sense something but you don´t know what it is . . . truly a timless masterpiece for some . . .
Timeless indeed!
Like... "I'm wasting my time watching this waiting for something to happen and nothing happens. Then thinking I could've done something more entertaining instead of watching this..like sleep"
both cinematic and directing masterpiece, might be one of best movies ever if not best, one of most influential movies too. Proud of my home country ussr that produced this masterpiece.
The more times one watches this film, the more one discovers various layers of this masterpiece. It is one of the very few movies ever made that can be watched innumerable times....a true characteristic of pure classic.
The more one can live. INCREDIBLY immaculate film!
I really love how the intense discussions of the characters suck you into their plight. Not because what they say is simply 'interesting'. Because we, the audience, can't come up with any better ideas than the intelligent characters to process their situation or make better decisions than them. So, in a sense, it's like you're right there in the movie thinking "yeah, I'd be confused too and I'd probably do the same thing, and I wouldn't have better answers". It's the opposite of what made films like Prometheus so disappointing because, in Prometheus, the characters often made out-of-character decisions just to lurch the plot forward.
@Qimodis That's how comments work, yes.
Thanks, your comment made me want to watch it. I loved "My Dinner with Andre" for the exact same reason. I highly recommend that movie to you as well !
@@littleman8438 Looking it up now!
This is an outstanding film! If it captures you, like it did me, you'll be mesmerized...
Tarkovsky also directed a great version of "Solaris"...1972, if I recall...also a great film
The pacing, editing and camera work are what makes the experience inside the zone mystical. Without those elements, it would just be three men walking and talking in an industrial waste dump.
Everything makes this film what it is. Without the acting, direction and screenplay, it would just be shots of the scenery edited together. It's not possible to reduce a film's effect down to certain departments, it's always the combination of everything intended and unintended that creates something completely new in the audience's minds!
I don’t even understand why I find this so beautiful.
Answer is the comment right under yours by Alex "When you press pause , you'll see a beautiful piece of art. Go random"
@Dreadpirateroberts X hahaha 100% accurate in my case
The answer is: ..... it is just an Art.
Dreadpirateroberts X actually it was day and I was not baked but you had 50% chances to find me baked in the night, so we’ll played Sir.
Watched this recently and i liked a lot! I must admit that besides being interested ( i played the STALKER games and i´m a fan of Tarkovsky) i fought with the sleep to keep watching. It´s a movie that can be considered dull, slow and etc, but at the same time it´s a unique experience in terms of movies and sci-fi especially.
I like how that German shepherd influenced Tarkovski's development as a film director and artist and now Andrei invited his old, down on his luck, mentor to act in this movie. That's a nice touch showing Tarkovski's gratitude and character.
What a movie..it takes you to another place! Tarkovesky is amazing💔
I know right!
The camera angle and pace used by tarkovsky in stalker makes you feel like you are also in the movie and every frame can be experienced
Definitely, one of the best movies I've watched, a total masterpiece that everyone should watch, nowadays movies are worthless compared to this.
Imagine having zero money, a dream, a million and a half miles of red tape and bribes and permits to attain and then somehow creating this much genius, this much character and dialogue driven movie? You won't be watching 'Revenge Of The Nerds' after this.
People watch this movie because it makes them think, people watch Revenge of the Nerds because "haha boobie benis funny man haha". I'll probably watch revenge of the nerds at some point in my life after this movie.
Ok, Poindexter! 🤓
Imagine having to do it twice for this film.
@@seimar1671 I LOVE 'Revenge of the Nerds' and had no problem with 'Porkys' when it came out. Maybe Trakovski's got a hidden Frat movie in his history someplace? you never know!!
I see this comment and with my limp wristed throwing style, I’m going to throw it in the trash can ;)
symbolism, metaphors, philosophy
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One of the best mystery movies of all time in the world!
Thank you for restoring this! One of the most beautiful and interesting movie experiences I have had in a long time!
Can say the same!
Why do I find this super depressing and yet super attractive and intriguing? Damn the zone.
John Lennon watched '2001' every week. I watch 'Stalker' every other day. My favorite film. Thank-You! Andrei Tarkovsky.
Has anyone else noticed a few similarities to 'The Wizard' of Oz'? (1939) Switch from B&W to Color, and main characters & dog.
Don't come closer, stalker.
That moment when something tells you that and you still go on.
My favorite Tarkovsky film. Nothing else like it.
0:31 Impressive drift I have to say
Fast and Furious: Soviet Drift
This looks amazing, i remember seeing this over 10 years ago and wished that someone would do something like this, because it's just such a remarkable film
Well, Valhalla Rising from 2009 is definitely worth watching
best movie ever...but not for everyone
This is no movie. This is magic!
One of the Greatest movie in the cinema history. Tarkovsky was not only a genius but a Master of the truth and beauty.
Did we watch the same movie???
It was complete garbage
Get out of here stalker
Stalker is said get out, not go into the NPP.
I said come in, don't stand there
Howdy
You failed to put a comma before "stalker".
good hunting stalker
This film is brilliant.
Tarkovsky is The God of Cinema of all time
Tarkovsky always make a masterpiece, Andrei rublev the mirror and stalker one of the best movie'just like ingmar Bergman persona Hitchcock vertigo kubrcik 2001 a space Odyssey
This and "Come and See" Are the greatest russian movie of all time
Dead Man's Letters (1986)
Solaris (1972)
Hard to be a God (2013)
Viy (1967)
Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
Some of the best Russian movies I have ever seen.
@@krashd Thanks for recommendation
@Small Ben Thanks for recommendation
The Return (2003) is also good stuff
nice, im going to add this to my watchlist, thanks
Wow. The ending of STALKER makes much more sense now.
This film is the most close idea of a living Dream. Every time i see it, i feels like been on other side of my mind.
That noise at the end when the girl knocked down a glass to when the stalker looked at the camera..
Watched this movie while I was greening out. Really put me in the shoes of discomfort and fear. Great and terrible experience that made me love this film.
One of the best movie of all time
I hope this comes out on DVD, I own a copy of the original and would love to have the same for the remaster.
Well done Film Society, well done!
A true Masterpiece
So much depth from Harrelson in this Zombieland sequel
😂😂😂😂😂Ffs
Where's Zuckerberg?
A very rare film; a masterpiece, in fact.
"Stalker" is what "Annihilation" wanted so desperately, and failed so utterly, to be...a beautifully unsettling film.
Think Annihilation is good in its own right. If you look at it as a cosmic horror its pretty damn good.
Annihilation didn’t fail. It’s it’s own unique film and it’s pretty good
I don't think Annihilation even managed to surpass It Follows.
While and after watching Stalker I felt this movie alone must be the reason as to why imo Kubrick won't win vs Tarkovsky.
Although I've only watched 1 Tarkovsky compared to Kubrick's 6.
IndeedAnalation was horrible sjw shiet MN
@@nishadgoliwadekar7887 Why would anyone compare Annihilation to It Follows? As most above expressed, films are unique in their own way. Yet here you come comparing not only two different genres, but two very different messages as well. I truly want to know, Why?
I enjoyed the movie "Hard to Be a God" and imdb user reviews mentioned this movie was excellent.
Have to get my hands on this version. Such a great film.
The Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition is Fantastic. Stalker, 2001 & Blade Runner - my top 3 films.
This is easily the best movie if you need to take a nap.
If i ever meet an alien , i would show them this film as a sign of peace and our representation of the purest form of art.
If only they can restore the original "ruined film" version.
it's gone forever unfortunately
What do you guys mean?
@@chriswf the film was reshot with a different cinematographer because of creative differences i believe. The original film was then destroyed in an accidental fire.
@@ggthewhale the original Film reels were contaminated and had a green hue to them apparently. The cinematographer didn't know what had happened but he was blamed and replaced, then the original film reels were lost to a fire
@@chriswf from my understanding the original shooting process used a film that was pretty uncommon in the ussr at the time, a large chunk was shot and when it was developed it was effectively ruined due to the team having no experience with that type of film, everything had an odd hue to it and it was unwatchable...tarkovsky had apparently intended to, and I could be wrong here, split the film into two parts? Or had used much of the budget, so wound up having to reshoot with the budget intended for the second part alone or the second half or something.
It was apparently a real nightmare of a shoot, scenes that were intended to take days were forced to be shot in hours due to the military only lending them equipment for a limited time, the conditions were horrible, it's likely a number of the cast and crew (including tarkovsky) died later from toxicity or poisoning in the environment and so on...one if those movies that has as interesting a story in the making as the film itself
This is among Top 3 of movies I've seen.
What's the 2?
This movie was so far ahead of its time...it doesn’t look like it was made in the 70’s at all.
H A L L O O O O
This is based on a book from A. and B. Strugatzki from Russia, title: Piknik na obotschinje from 1972, adapted 1979 as Stalker.
Tarkowski made this Masterpiece cause his artistic performance is very closed to the book.
Love it!
Take that, Michael Bay. That’s cinema.
Because Michael Bay wants to create cinema
Careful. Don't want to be calling the Universe for this. He may just remake it, only with the aliens having the picnic this time.
@@phantastique3187 Roadside Picnic? ))
The Michael Bay version: 🏎️💨💥🤖💥🔥💣
To be fair, Stalker is better than most movies made by far better directors than Michael Bay.
The greatest of them all one Director that rules them all - Tarkovsky
Still the greatest film of all time. A masterpiece.
'The Room'..?
What a story Tark...
masters of cinematography
A master craftsman... the Da Vinci of the cinema age. His Magnum Opus.
soundtrack is that of the 1979 "alien" trailer, fits good, well done
One of the best movie ever made
...despite the tendency of a materialist ego holding on for dear life, clinging onto the conceptual life raft of Time...this transcends the limits of mere duration. The film is all pervading *existence* ...
what?
Whatever you're on, I want it.
I agree OP. This movie was like a "heroic dose" of psilocybin. Very intense and mind-bending.
This film was made using a huge roll of film normally used in a spy plane observation camera. It was very high definition Similar to IMAX film.
The use of the local land scape was very creative and cheap to film .
genius idea really
this is the best thing i have seen in years on you tube... thank Stalker
Amazing as it is, I came here to see more of that black wolf dog. Where's my black wolf dog? I want a black wolf dog!
Read the book "Roadside Picnic" this film is based upon. It's different from Tarkovsky's film, but wonderful in its own way.
I'm still upset about the ending is so fucked. Great book
Just finished the book. Its pretty amazing. Now I'm ready to watch the movie.
Damn, I just watched it in the old DVD version, this makes me wanna rewatch it right now
Janus Films really are the best!
Легендарное произведение!
1:15 - 1:50 Isn't that the music from the original Alien trailer?
Edward Artemiev with an ANS
Ya they just about cut out the iconic screamy sound
I'm pretty sure that's from the movie OST, from Stalker.
@@MrSilverio13 From 0:00 to 1:11 it is from Stalker, from 1:12 to the end it is from Alien's original theatrical trailer
This restoration is so beautiful, stunning film
A film where they took 20 minutes to walk across a field, before spending 15 minutes lying down on swampy ground. If you watch it really, really carefully, you can see an Emperor wearing his new clothes in a couple of scenes, but only those who really appreciate Art will notice him.
Looks amazing !
Stalker is one of those films, that you do not watch for entertainment purposes, you watch it as a vehicle for deep meditation. If you try to enjoy it as a popcorn film, it's going to be an extremely boring and disappointing flick; but if you watch it to learn more about yourself and the world, you will find no other film like it.
What did you learn yourself?
@@Langkowski It's a personal thing, but let's just say it made me think on how to proceed through specific life situations.
Road side picnic. Masterpiece.
Breathtaking movie!!!!!
Фильм на все времена. A film for all times and for all countries and peoples
any cheekp breeki in it?
Get out of here stalker.
kokokoko shooshooboop Yes.
Nope.
none whatsoever
No cheeki breeki present in the movie comrade
Awesome that they do a remaster of this! Did not expect it
Never seen it but can't wait to get a copy. When humans arrive, look out! And, be careful what you wish for...