Episode 185 – Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker

In this episode, Trevor Berrett and Scott Nye venture into the mysteries of the Zone, discussing Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker.

This time on the podcast, Trevor Berrett and Scott Nye discuss Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker.

Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphys­ical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a professor 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 an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself—Stalkerenvelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.

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Stalker (1979) – The Criterion Collection
Stalker (1979) – IMDb
Stalker (1979) – Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Trevor’s review of Stalker – The Mookse and the Gripes
Janet Maslin’s review of Stalker – The New York Times 1982
Nick Shager’s review of Stalker – Slant

Episode Credits

Scott Nye (Twitter/Website)
Trevor Berrett (Twitter/Website)

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