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The Next Picture Show

#118: (Pt. 1) Annihilation / Stalker (1979)

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Alex Garland’s new ANNIHILATION is a loose adaptation of a novel, but its premise, themes, and style give it just as strong a connection to Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 philosophical science fiction film STALKER. In this half of the pairing, we venture into STALKER’s mysterious Zone on a search for meaning and metaphor within an enigmatic cinematic landscape that’s as beguiling as it is intimidating. Plus, feedback on some recent episodes that were, and episodes that might have been. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about STALKER, ANNIHILATION, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730.  Outro music: “Meditation” by Eduard Artemiev Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sit in quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

0:04.2

Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.

0:08.4

Tea break.

0:09.4

Lunch break.

0:10.2

Maybe listen to the outbreak.

0:12.1

Sometimes it's not time for some tombollah, right?

0:15.1

It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time.

0:29.3

Go on. Play some other time. visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gamble aware.org It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

0:36.2

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

0:42.9

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

0:50.0

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie The Week podcast devoted to a classic film

0:54.0

and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

0:56.3

I'm Keith Phipps here with Genevieve Koski. Scott Tobias.

0:59.4

And Tasha Robinson.

1:00.6

Here on the next picture show, we believe that no film exists in a vacuum and that all culture is more interesting in context.

1:06.1

So every other week, we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates to a current

1:11.1

movie. This week, we're off to a pair of lands transformed by enigmatic forces from outer space.

1:16.6

Tasha, after you slowly emerge from an underground tunnel filled with terrifying noises,

1:20.6

could you tell us about this week's pairing?

1:22.3

Sure, I could, but alternately, I could spend a long time building up to revealing this week's pairing and then

1:27.6

ultimately choose to walk away from it. The problem is I don't think that would do a lot for our

1:31.3

listeners. So sometimes on this podcast, we make pairings based somewhat loosely on two films

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