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(Part of this Quest/Project ) 1960s: Yojimbo (Japan: Akira Kurasowa, 1961: 110 mins) The Exterminating Angel/Ángel exterminador, El (Mexico: Luis Buñuel, 1962: 95 mins) La Jetée (France: Chris Marker, 1962: 28 mins) 8 1/2 (Italy/France: Federico Fellini, 1963: 138 mins) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (United Kingdom: Stanley Kubrick, 1964: 93 mins) The Battle of...
I never would have watched The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) had I not been sent the Blu-ray for review. Of the first four Blu-rays released by Criterion it is the one title I wouldn’t have actually shelled out money for even though I was intrigued after watching the trailer. However, first impressions aren’t [...]
Somehow in the midst of my reviews of the 2008 graduating show of Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp I missed what could be possibly the most important menswear designer of the class. Antonin Tron's Collection entitled "La Jetee" after one of his great inspirations a movie by Chris Marker left me close to speechless. The lavishly designed collection may not conform to the our stark ideas of... Related...
Ubu.com has Chris Marker's short film Junkopia: One day, at the stroke of evening, on Emeryville beach in San Francisco, where unidentified artists, leave, without anyone knowing, sculptures manufactured with items that have washed ashore from the sea. This includes a short introduction by arte, approx. 1:12 secs long, with the film being around 6 minutes itself....there are 2 intertitles in the film...
In purely technical terms, this would-be art-house romance sounds interesting – the action being conveyed by a succession of still photographs and voiceover, rather as in Chris Marker's La Jetée; but the story, about a Mexican boy's overheated crush on an American student, is indescribably banal and amateurishly acted.
After the MoviesMichael Wood Whatever else it may be, Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma (now available on DVD from Artificial Eye) does not resemble the afternoon bill at the old Plaza or the new Cineplex. He first thought of creating a history of cinema in 1978. It would be told, he said, ‘archaeologically and biologically’. In spite of the metaphors, the plan seemed conventional enough: an...
With what might be taken as a nod to Chris Marker (whose pseudonym is believed to have been nabbed from a Magic Marker), a nifty orientation video featuring Jason Polan is the best guide imaginable to the new Criterion...
French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma have compiled a list of the 100 greatest films of all time. It is published this month in an illustrated book and was put together by 76 French film directors, critics and industry executives. Here are the 100 films: Citizen Kane - Orson Welles The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton The Rules of [...]
In search of nonspace and unthought thoughts. Sans Soleil I’ve been mulling over French director Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil for four days now. The key scene for me was the shooting of the giraffe, which gave its origins away as far as genre-theoretics are concerned. The key phrase was perhaps the “salute to all unposted letters,” but is [...]
The L Magazine's Mark Asch: "Far from Vietnam is a movie from 1967 that's screened, watched, discussed, far less than you'd think it would be given that it's directed by Jean-Luc Godard (at the height of his formalist Marxist...
Written and directed by : Chris Marker How do you make a movie about everything, By making it about nothing? By indicating, and not pointing. By wandering and not traveling. By imbibing the intricacies of banality and embracing forgetfulness as an essential component of remembrances. Chris Marker’s movie floats through time and space creating a tapestry of ephemeral images encapsulating humanity present,...
"Harrison Ford, who played a US president fighting airplane hijackers in 1997's Air Force One topped a list of fictional movie presidents people would most like to lead the US, according to a poll released on Thursday by AOL's...
It’s not often that you can get t-shirts designed by major figures of world cinema, and even less often for a better cause: Chris Marker invokes his trademark character, Guillaume-en-egypte, for Barack Obama at Wexner Center for the Arts.
"La Jetée " is one of my favorite films, long or short. It uses a technique with still photos that gives it an eerie lost-in-time quality that is haunting. Made by Chris Marker in 1962, it is just 28 minutes long. My first viewing of " La Jetée " was at the Biograph Theatre, in my initial year as its manager (1972). It was a popular art house film and we played it several more times while I was there....
