![]() ![]() ![]() I agree: His eleven words are better and sound-bitten (a version of hard-bitten). He adds that it ought to be possible to summarize Stalker in just a few sentences, so here goes: In the course of spinning out over 200 pages of book on the film, Dyer admits that he hates people who insist on describing a movie in exhaustive detail. Zona has a subtitle, “A book about a film about a journey to a room,” and that’s a good start-indeed, it’s snappier and more seductive than the start of the actual movie, and you can argue that that start goes on for about 140 minutes, to be followed by the ending. ![]() An invigorating mixture of responses, but this is a Geoff Dyer book. And, to be honest, you can read this book in 162 minutes and come away refreshed, enlivened, infuriated, amused, thoughtful, and mystified. Reading the book a few times convinces me that I was not made to see this film too often (I identified with the dog). Once upon a time, in advance of publication, it seemed essential that the book come packaged with a DVD of the movie, granted that 162 minutes in glorious 35mm would be cumbersome-and who has a 35mm projector or anyone who can work it? But surely the DVD was a natural? Now, I’m not so sure. THE RICH, PROBLEMATIC delight with Geoff Dyer’s new book, Zona is that it’s so much more fun than the film it addresses, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979). ![]()
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