Stalker

This May at the Film Society, experience the mysteries and revelations of Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 science fiction masterpiece in a new digital restoration. Twenty years ago a falling object decimated a provincial Russian town, and those who later went near the crash site—now known as The Zone—disappeared. Access is strictly prohibited, but outsiders can still get in with the help of a “stalker.” Inside The Zone is The Room, within which secret wishes can be granted. Based on the novel Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers, Stalker is a visually extraordinary and philosophically provocative fable about the limits of knowledge—personal, scientific, and spiritual. New digital restoration by Mosfilm. A Janus Films release.

The Killers

Avec Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinsonn, John Cassavetes et … Ronald Reagan, le remake de Donald Siegel, titre français « A Bout Portant », s’en tire peut-être mieux que celui de Robert Siodmak avec Burt Lancaster et Ava Gardner.

Mais la première adaptation cinématographique de la nouvelle de Ernest Hemingway semble être de Andreï Tarkovski en 1956.