tarkovsky's stalker

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From the Stalker wikipedia page:

Sound designer Vladimir Sharun recalls:
We were shooting near Tallinn in the area around the small river Jägala with a half-functioning hydroelectric station. Up the river was a chemical plant and it poured out poisonous liquids downstream. There is even this shot in Stalker: snow falling in the summer and white foam floating down the river. In fact it was some horrible poison. Many women in our crew got allergic reactions on their faces. Tarkovsky died from cancer of the right bronchial tube. And Tolya Solonitsyn too. That it was all connected to the location shooting for Stalker became clear to me when Larisa Tarkovskaya died from the same illness in Paris.[5]

― elan, Monday, 12 March 2012 00:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh, there was another Dyer/screening today :p

http://www.movingimage.us/films/2012/03/11/detail/geoff-dyer-on-tarkovsky-cinema-and-life/

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 March 2012 00:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

Have always heard about The Conquerer being a movie that was actually fatal for the people involved; had no idea the same happened with Stalker.

― tanuki, Monday, 12 March 2012 01:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/16/author-geoff-dyer-literary-establishment

^blood boils, etc.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 17 March 2012 08:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

Not really...just 'next', you know.

I am at fkn war w/proper spelling and punctuation tho'.

All nothing compared to the awfulness of people dying from the conditions surrounding the Stalker shoot. Was dimly aware of it when a camera man was talking about T and people who had passed on. A 5 min interview on a DVD that was a kinda gem. Wish I had that round here so I could remind myself of exactly what he said.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 17 March 2012 09:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

I read Zona today - I enjoyed it. It's pretty short (you can probably read it in less time than it takes to watch the film) but that's probably for the best. It was a lot lighter than I expected it to be - more of a cultural sorbet than a cultural vegetable.

― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Saturday, 17 March 2012 22:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh, I forgot why I posted. A quote from Zona

"As such it would have rendered that line of Stalker's - 'Home at last' - rather odd. [footnote-] Or maybe not. In the years when I used to go to Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert, we were greeted at the festival entrance with the words 'Welcome Home!' and tears always welled up in my eyes because it was true, because I believed absolutely in the Temporal Autonomous Zone of Black Rock City."

― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Saturday, 17 March 2012 22:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

^ interview here - more of a lamentation for people who passed on, love that shot of the lamp going off..

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 18 March 2012 01:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

inside report from fukushima nuclear reactor evacuation zone

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

Roadside Picnic coming back into print (in English) for the first time in 30 years fwiw

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

bought it at B&N a couple of weeks ago actually!

― I cannot host as my wife hates Walker (latebloomer), Friday, 4 May 2012 07:42 (1 year ago) Permalink