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Stalker

Stalker

Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979

Spine #888

Picked by 5 guests

Science Fiction / Drama

Criterion Letterboxd TMDB

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Written by Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Andrei Tarkovsky, Boris Strugatskiy

Cinematography Aleksandr Knyazhinsky, Leonid Kalashnikov

Edited by Lyudmila Feiginova

Cast Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Mykola Hrynko, Natalya Abramova, Faime Jurno, Evgeniy Kostin, Raimo Rendi

Picked by

Anna Kendrick

“Stalker. Beautiful, stunning, hypnotizing, and really kind of deals with the nasty business of looking at oneself and how devastating that can be, and thematically, that's my [ __ ].”

Cauleen Smith

“And I am really happy to have this. Stalker, Tarkovsky. It's like you know, but Stalker is my jam, my jam.”

RaMell Ross
RaMell Ross director

“I’ll take anything that he’s done. I don’t have a copy of Stalker. I’ve seen it a couple of times but I kind of want it. Yeah. Just the psychological horror that is not a horror at all. It’s kind of just like an electricity that exists outside of human consciousness or perception or something. Something that science is way behind.”

Flying Lotus

“Yes, I should. Where is that? Thank you. I've not gotten through it. I have to do that on an early one, you know, wake up and watch that. He's like the nap master. Makes me makes me dream, you know?”

Jude Law

“Yeah, I was hoping I would find a Tarkovsky. So Stalker, I think Stalker was my introduction to Andrei Tarkovsky. It was my discovery of stillness in film and Andrei Rublev of course. But that's that's a real favorite of mine and I haven't seen it in years, so I'm happy to have found it.”