Sight & Sound Poll 2012: La Jetée
November 26, 2012
Film Info
- France
- 1963
- 27 minutes
- Black and White
- 1.66:1
- French
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. Marker’s La Jetée is one of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made, a tale of time travel told in still images.
Cast
Credits
| Director | Chris Marker |
| Editing | Jean Ravel |
| Voice | James Kirk |
| Music | Trevor Duncan (Editions Boosey and Hawkes) |
| choirs from | The Russian Cathedral of Paris |
| direction by | Piotr V. Spassky |
Disc Features
GUILLAUME-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- Restored high-definition digital transfers, approved by director Chris Marker, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
- Two 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 (only on the Blu-ray edition)
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by Marker scholar Catherine Lupton, an interview with Marker, notes on the films and filmmaking by Marker, and more
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Chris Marker: Memory’s Apostle
By February 07, 2012
La Jetée (1963) and Sans Soleil (1983), made a tidy twenty years apart, are the twin peaks of . . . Read more »
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Chris Marker’s Second Life
May 13, 2009
It doesn’t really come as a surprise that Chris Marker is a devoted inhabitant of the virtual . . . Read more »
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La Jetée: Unchained Melody
By June 25, 2007
However you define Chris Marker's 1963 short La Jetée—philosophical fiction, genre exercise, . . . Read more »
Film Essays
Chris Marker: Memory’s Apostle
By February 07, 2012
La Jetée (1963) and Sans Soleil (1983), made a tidy twenty years apart, are the twin peaks of . . . Read more »
Film Essays
La Jetée: Unchained Melody
By June 25, 2007
However you define Chris Marker's 1963 short La Jetée—philosophical fiction, genre exercise, . . . Read more »
Video
Video
Video
Photo Galleries
Film Essays
Chris Marker: Memory’s Apostle
By February 07, 2012
La Jetée (1963) and Sans Soleil (1983), made a tidy twenty years apart, are the twin peaks of . . . Read more »
Photo Galleries
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Marker in Transit
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Starting today and running through Sunday, March 14, London’s Tate Modern investigates the . . . Read more »
Features
Chris Marker’s Second Life
May 13, 2009
It doesn’t really come as a surprise that Chris Marker is a devoted inhabitant of the virtual . . . Read more »
Film Essays
La Jetée: Unchained Melody
By June 25, 2007
However you define Chris Marker's 1963 short La Jetée—philosophical fiction, genre exercise, . . . Read more »
