Sight & Sound: Redux
Stalker
1/1 - THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Liberated World Cinema)
1/6 - SUNSET BOULEVARD (Essential Cinema)
1/6 - 1/8 - MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
1/8 - DAYS OF HEAVEN (MTFF Presents)
1/9 - 1/11 - RIO BRAVO
1/11 - Sight & Sound Shorts: LA JETEE, UN CHIEN ANDALOU, and MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON
1/14 - THE CONFORMIST
1/15 - THE WILD BUNCH (Knockout Cinema)
1/16 - 1/18 - THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
1/18 - WINGS OF DESIRE
1/21 - STALKER
1/22 - PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (Out at The Roxy)
1/23 - 1/25 - JOHNNY GUITAR
1/25 - NEWS FROM HOME
1/27 - BREATHLESS
1/28 - YI YI
1/29 - GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (Persistence of Vision: Animated Masterworks)
1/30 - 2/1 - THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
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—Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.