
64 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 2/3 — Stalker
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The Stalker's Bedroom
It's a very memorable, like I think the second scene where you meet the stalker and it starts with this... The camera kind of tracks down the corridor leading into his bedroom. There's a lot of indirect light coming through the windows and then creating wonderful soft shadows and then pools of darkness. Sometimes combined with a shot that he's fawned of which is where something is seen through an opening and it's slowly over a long, long, slow shot pans in until you can work out what it is. In my travellers' guide to Albania, the communist one, it has the restaurant menu and opening times for every restaurant because they're all the same. Every restaurant in the country
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