Often, in discussions about old movies, someone will say, “That movie couldn’t be made today.”, and inevitably someone else will disagree.
Often, in discussions about old movies, someone will say, “That movie couldn’t be made today.”, and inevitably someone else will disagree.
‘Stalker’ isn’t a studio film, same as Tarkovsky’s other films. They are ‘auteur’ films. ‘Stalker’ doesn’t even really follow the novel, it’s rather Tarkovsky’s ideas put into the same setting.
Directors who want to make slow films, make them still. See e.g. ‘Boyhood’. Of Russian films, try ‘Hard to Be a God’, the last film of Alexey German, made in 2013. There’s a whole movement called slow cinema, with extreme examples like Lav Diaz’s work having runtimes of up to ten hours. The second-longest ever cinematic film was made in 2024.