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you ever think about how tarkovsky made a whole other version of stalker but they fucked up the film processing so he had to start over again with no time and no budget so he just shot alexander kaidanovsky crawling around a toxic waste dump for like three days and then everyone died from the chemicals like an other-side-of-the-iron-curtain version of that one john wayne movie
“We’re now standing at the threshold. This is the most important moment in your life. You must know that your most cherished desire will come true here. Your sincerest wish, the desire that has made you suffer most. There’s no need to speak. You must only concentrate and recall all your past life. When a man thinks of the past, he becomes kinder. But the main thing... The main thing is... You must believe.”
— Stalker, 1979
See, I love you. But love is a feeling we can experience but never explain. One can explain the concept. You love that which you can lose: yourself, a woman, a homeland. Until today, love was simply unattainable to mankind, to the earth. Maybe we are here to experience people as a reason for love.
Solaris (1971) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
“We have forgotten how to relate emotionally to art: we treat it like editors, searching in it for that which the artist has supposedly hidden.”
—Andrei Tarkovsky, who would have been 91 today.
Иваново детство / L’Enfance d’Ivan (1962)⎪Андрей Рублёв / Andreï Roublev (1969)⎪Солярис / Solaris (1972)⎪Зеркало / Le Miroir (1975)⎪Сталкер / Stalker (1979)⎪Ностальгия / Nostalghia (1983)⎪Offret / Le Sacrifice (1986)
stalker 1979 screenshot rough color sketches pt. 1