Coming to Row House Cinema as part of Indie Sci Fi Week, 8/11-8/17, is gorgeous new restoration of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker. (Other films that week are Brazil, Fantastic Planet, and The City of Lost Children).

Tickets: http://rowhousecinema.com/tickets/indie-sci-fi-stalker

Showtimes
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Fri 8/11 – Noon
Sat 8/12 – 1:45pm
Sun 8/13 – 7:30pm
Tue 8/15 – 6:30pm
Wed 8/16 – 3:40pm
Thur 8/17 – 1:45pm

About the film
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One of the most immersive and rarefied experiences in the history of cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979) embarks on a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic post-apocalyptic landscape. A hired guide—the “Stalker” of the title—leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and making what would be his final Soviet feature, Tarkovsky created a challenging and visually stunning work, his painstaking attention to material detail and sense of organic atmosphere further enriched by this vivid new digital restoration. At once a religious allegory, a reflection of contemporary political anxieties, and a meditation on film itself—among many other interpretations—Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.