#387: MARKER, Chris: La Jetée (1963) / Sans Soleil (1983)

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MARKER, Chris (France)
La Jetée [1963] / Sans Soleil [1983]
Spine #387
Blu-ray


One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made and a mind-bending free-form travelogue, La Jetée and Sans Soleil couldn't seem more different — but they're the twin pillars of an unparalleled and uncompromising career in cinema. Filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, Chris Marker has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his investigations of time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet. These two films — a tale of time travel told in still images and a journey to Africa and Japan — remain his best-loved and most widely seen.

La Jetée

27 minutes
Black & White

Sans Soleil

103 minutes
Color/Black & White
Monaural
in English and French
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2012
Director/Writer


Chris Marker was 42 when he wrote and directed La Jetée and 62 when he directed Sans Soleil.

The Film

Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

The Booklet

Forty-eight page booklet featuring essays by Catherine Lupton, Marker, Catherine and Andrew Brighton; On Sans Soleil; The Names of Sans Soleil; Racine/Eliot; Rare Marker: An Interview by Samuel Douhaire and Annick Rivoire; Notes on Filmmaking by Marker.

Commentary

None.

Interviews

With filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin.
Chris on Chris

A video piece on Marker by filmmaker and critic Chris Darke.
Two excerpts

From the French television series Court-circuit (le magazine); a look at David Bowie’s music video for the song “Jump They Say,” inspired by La Jetée, and an analysis of Hitchcock’s Vertigo and its influence on Marker.

Junkopia

A six-minute film by Marker, Frank Simone, and John Chapman about the Emeryville Mudflats.
Extras Rating (0-40):

39

60 + 39 =

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