Andrei Tarkovsky’s ‘Stalker‘ is a film that asks us to pay attention and to think. Shot in 1978 and released in 1979, it tells the story of a man known as the Stalker who guides two clients, the ...

Tarkovsky ditches flashy effects for daunting silence, dripping water, and lingering shots that pull you deeper into the mystery. Stalker is a sci-fi film, but a philosophical one. It is stripped to ...