a picnic for stalkers
Mar. 11th, 2009 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wytchcroft
and so now i am reading again
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, which was the basis of the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker.
Stalker, like Solaris, is one of my very favourite movies.
However, unlike the source novel for Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem, which i love and have read many times - i have only read a section of 'Picnic' and that was many years ago.
The film of Stalker is sometimes known as Zone (and often the use of the concept of 'Zone' is remarked upon in critics' writings) which for me immediately calls to mind the poem Zone by Apollinaire - an extraordinary work in itself. (A very crude translation of which can be found on-line here.)
You are weary at last of this ancient world
Shepherdess O Eiffel tower whose flock of bridges bleats at the morning - zone.
So, maybe in a couple of days, i might have a bash at reviewing Picnic and talking a bit about my love for Stalker and for Zone.
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Dead Man's Letters: film catastrophe
Date: 2009-03-11 03:35 pm (UTC)May say, it's one mystical and sad story - the movie and Chernobyl. By the way, there is movie "Dead Man's Letters", it was screened in 1986 (!).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091759/
Re: Dead Man's Letters: film catastrophe
Date: 2009-03-11 04:53 pm (UTC)Dead Man's Letters: video fragments
Date: 2009-03-11 05:06 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP6-Wyriqrc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDdWZ4PEOO8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndgNfjUQDu4
very impressive and sombre movie
Dead Man's Letters: video fragment -2
Date: 2009-03-11 05:09 pm (UTC)Re: Dead Man's Letters: video fragment -2
Date: 2009-03-11 05:12 pm (UTC)Dead Man's Letters: link
Date: 2009-03-11 06:31 pm (UTC)