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- Rating: Not Rated
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Format:
(1 Used)
- 2 Release Date: 02/07/2012
- Label: The Criterion Collection
La Jetee/Sans Soleil [Criterion] (BLU)
Amoeba Review
New, restored high-defintion digital transfers, approved by the director. In French with English subtitles.
One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made and a mind-bending free-form travelogue, La Jetee and Sans Soleil couldn't seem more different - yet they're the twin pillars of one of the most daring and uncompromising careers in cinema history. Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his complex queries about 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.
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Product Details
- Format: Color, NTSC, Widescreen
- Language: English
- Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
- Number of Discs: 1
- Rating: Not Rated
- Label: The Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 02/07/2012
- Run Time: 130 minutes
- Catalogue #: 2107
Special Features
- Two interviews with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Chris On Chris, a video piece on director Chris 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 Jetee, and an analysis of Hitchcock's Vertigo and its influence on Marker
- Junkopedia, a six-minute film by Marker, Frank Simone, and John Chapman about the Emeryville Mudflats
- Booklet featuring an essay by Marker scholar Catherine Lupton, an interview with Marker, notes on the films and filmmaking by Marker, and more
