What would you wish for?

Are you sure?

Last night...I watched what is now one of my favorite movies, Andrei Tarkovsky's, Stalker. It was recommended by Jonathan Marlowe, of Green Cine. He told Kat and I the plot line over dinner and I decided to find it and watch it at the earliest opportunity. It's not available on Netflix, but you can find it in Austin at our very own Vulcan Video (as soon as I return this copy).

What if there was a room that could grant one wish to anyone who entered?
Alexander is a Stalker, he guides people to this special room that exists in the Zone, an area that is off limits and heavily guarded. The film tells the story of what it might mean to have your deepest wish granted, not the wish you tell people about (money, health, world peace) but one that is held quite possibly so deeply in your subconscious that you aren't even sure what it is, so you might come out with something completely different than you expected.

Check it out. It's beautiful. The DVD includes an interview with Tarkovsky's D.P.

It's been a very busy weekend of movies. First of all, though I felt like I was going somewhere new all weekend long, I loved visiting sets of the students I'm mentoring, I loved talking to the neighbor kid about the zombie movie he wants to make and I loved loved loved watching an early rough cut of one of student shoots. It's good stuff.