Perry Ogden

Blog : Stalker

Just screened Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' for the first time in ages - yes, still working my way through Sight and Sounds greatest films of all time (Stalker: 29th equal with Shoah in the Critics' top 100 and 30th in the Directors')! It's an extraordinary film (though my favourite Tarkovsky film is 'Andrei Roublev') and I particularly love the last scene, from which this image is taken. Now I'm going to read Geoff Dyer's book 'Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room'. Appears that Dyer has been obsessed by 'Stalker' since he first saw it (not sure when that was but I'm sure all will be revealed) and this is his exploration of it.