I don’t know if I could pick a favorite film, but if I had no choice but to only watch one director’s work, I would choose Tarkovsky. Stalker is nothing less than a miracle. Tarkovsky, after a year of shooting, had to start over, due to the fact that the film he was given to use was defective. An entire year’s worth of work thrown out! Still, he went on, now with a very limited budget, to make this masterpiece. Every time I watch Stalker, i’m taken deeper and deeper into “the zone”. A place where the biggest questions are asked freely. Watching this film is like talking to an old friend at four in the morning, that one person with whom you can talk with about anything and everything. The walls come down.