We are, in other words, already in a realm of universal truth. If floorboards could speak these look like they could tell a tale or two, though the tales would turn out to be one and the same, ending with the same old lament (after a few drinks people think they can walk all over me), not just in terms of what happens here but in bars the world over. He was on panels at the Bay Area Book Festival June 3-4 in Berkeley for “Beyond Travel Writing: Journey and Meaning” and “Wanderlust: Essaying Forth.” More information here .Īfter the excerpt find videos, posters and much more about Dyer and Stalker.)ĪN EMPTY BAR, possibly not even open, with a single table, no bigger than a small round table, but higher, the sort you lean against - there are no stools - while you stand and drink. Geoff Dyer accompanied a screening at the Berkeley at Museum/Pacific Film Archive on Thursday, June 1 at 7:00. Stalker will be screening at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive on Saturday, September 9 and Friday, September 22, 2017. Stalker is playing at cinemas across the U.S. The book can be read without seeing the movie but together you are in for a treat. And I went to a screening to see it again. It is fascinating, highly readable and often laugh-out-loud funny. It is about going to the movies and Stalker.
And then in 2012 Geoff Dyer’s book “ Zona” was released. Years went by and the limited availability of Stalker made it easy for me to not see it again. Two early Tarkovsky movies, My Name is Ivan and Andrei Rublev were favorites. (Editor’s note: When Stalker first came out I was not a fan. He also claims ‘the Zone is cinema.’īeyond the book’s bravura formalism and in spite of the suspicion that it could be viewed as a highbrow take on live-blogging, it’s Dyer’s ability at moments like this to make pilgrims of his readers and to lead them on a journey in search of truths about love and about the nature of happiness that make Zona such an exhilarating achievement.” Sukhdev Sandhu, The Guardian
Dyer talks about the “possibility of cinema as semi-permanent pilgrimage site”. Stalker itself, which is an immersive experience as much as it’s a visual spectacle, loses its magnetic force when watched at home. “It’s equally pleasing to read Dyer speak up for the pleasures of watching films, not in domesticated and tamed form on DVD, but at the cinema.
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