Episode 15: On Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' - Part Two
In this second of a two-part conversation on Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker, Phil and JF explore the film's prophetic dimension, relating it to Samuel R. Delany's classic science-fiction novel Dhalgren, the cultural revolution of the 1960s, the affordances of despair, the spookiness of color, the transformation of noise into music, and the Chernobyl disaster. They even come up with a title for a novel Robert Ludlum never wrote but should have written: The Criterion Rendition!
\n\nREFERENCES
\n\nAndrei Tarkovsky (dir.), Stalker
\nSamuel R. Delany, Dhalgren (foreword by William Gibson)
\nH.P. Lovecraft, "The Colour Out of Space"
\nJohn Searle, Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception
\nSteve Reich, Come Out
\nGustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1
\nMartin Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology"
\nStanley Kubrick, The Shining
\nThe Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
\nSigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle