Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | Sans soleil
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Other title: | Sunless. Chris on Chris. Memory's apostle : Chris Marker, 'La jetée', and 'Sans soliel'. Rare Marker : an interview.
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Other uniform titles: | Jetée (Motion picture)
Sans soleil (Motion picture)
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Other authors / contributors: | Marker, Chris, 1921-2012
Chatelain, Hélène.
Hanich, Davos.
Ledoux, Jacques.
Heinrich, André. 1923-
Branchu, Jacques, 1921-1988.
Négroni, Jean.
Stewart, Alexandra.
Gorin, Jean-Pierre.
Darke, Chris.
Lupton, Catherine.
Argos Films.
Office de radiodiffusion-télévision française. Service de la recherche.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
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ISBN: | 193412155X 9781934121559
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Notes: | Special features: video interviews with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin (from 2005); "Chris on Chris" (a video piece on Marker by writer Chris Darke, 10 min.); two excerpts from the French TV series "Court-circuit (le magazine)" directed by Luc Lagier (a 2 min. long look at David Bowie's 1993 music video for "Jump they say", which was inspired by "La jetée" & a 9 min. long analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and its influence on Marker). Booklet contains a critical essay by Marker scholar Catherine Lupton ("Memory's apostle : Chris Marker, 'La jetée', and 'Sans soliel'"), an autobiographical essay by Marker fans Catherine Brighton & Andrew Brighton ("This is the story"), an interview with Marker by Samuel Douhaire & Annick Rivoire ("Rare Marker : an interview", originally published in French in 2003, translated into English by Marker in 2007); and various notes by Marker. "Enhanced for 16:9 televisions"--Disc label. La jetée: Editing, Jean Ravel ; music by Trevor Duncan. Cast for La jetée: Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux, André Heinrich, Jacques Branchu ; narrated by Jean Negroni. Sans soleil: Letters read by Alexandra Stewart. DVD, region 1; Dolby digital mono. In French, with optional English subtitles. Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
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Summary: | La jetée: An unnamed man experiments with time travel, in hopes of finding a solutions to the problems of his post-apocalyptic home era. Narrated almost entirely using black-and-white still photographs. Sans soleil: Actress Alexandra Stewart reads and comments on the letters she receives from (fictional) Sandor Krasna, a world-traveling freelance cameraman. Explores the immense diversity of the human species and its differing societies.
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Standard no.: | 715515023924
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Publisher's no.: | CC1694D Criterion Collection
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