I found this the most brilliant and compelling of Tarkovsky’s films.
I had wolfed-down noodles just in time to sprint across London as the National Film Theatre curtains opened, I sat mesmerised by Stalker’s rhythm, textures and the transcendent journey to The Room. The implied sci-fi is so much more evocative than other films – with the inspired use of estrangement techniques in the sound design and the dislocation of time and space providing profound experiential cinema.