Stalker; some reference works

Stalker and other Tarkovsky films online.

About Geoff Dyer's Zona, a book about Stalker.

Shorter Dyer: "it is the reason cinema was invented."

Russian critics remember how the film was made: in Russia, Tajikstan, and Estonia.

Cinema, a visual medium, turns space into time.

A sort of real-life Zone.

John 20 (see especially John 20:29). Revelation 6.

Walking on water. A Russian-style crown of thorns.

Another sacred place.

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This belongs somewhere: a lot of review-essays about SF since the 1990s (not academic-scholarly, but critical and serious).

So does a a reminder about the all-purpose SF news site io9.

And so does the new online edition of the SF Encyclopedia, edited by John Clute.

Here are all its entries on film.