Stalker Blu-ray

'Stalker' Director: Andrei Tarkovsky (1979) Criterion Collection Blu-ray | 2K restoration | Russian w/ English subtitles 

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 (Hard to be a God, Dead Man's Letters), 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.

Special features include:
- Interview with Geoff Dyer, author of Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
- Interviews from 2000 with set designer Rashit Safiullin and composer Eduard Artemyev
- Interview from the mid­-1990s with cinematographer Alexander Knyazhinsky
- Essay by critic Mark Le Fanu