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La jetée ; Sans soleil / two films by Chris Marker.

LIBRA BLU RAY PN1997.A1 J4844 2012 disc + booklet
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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Marker, Chris, 1921-2012, filmmaker.
Dauman, Anatole, 1925-1998
Négroni, Jean, narrator.
Chatelain, Hélène
Hanich, Davos
Ledoux, Jacques
Delay, Florence, 1941-2025, narrator.
Stewart, Alexandra, narrator.
Ravel, Jean, 1927-1990, editor of moving image work.
Duncan, Trevor, composer (expression).
Argos Films, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Series:
Criterion collection ; 387.
The Criterion collection ; 387
Language:
English
French
Subjects (All):
Time travel--Drama.
Time travel.
Travel--Drama.
Travel.
Travelers' writings--Drama.
Travelers' writings.
Africa--Drama.
Africa.
Japan--Drama.
Japan.
Voyages and travels.
journeys.
Genre:
Blu-ray discs.
Foreign films.
Sci-Fi.
Documentary-style films
Drama
Feature films
Science fiction films
Short films
Travelogues (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Science fiction films.
Feature films.
Documentary-style films.
Short films.
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (27 min., 103 min.) : sound, color, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm).
Edition:
Guillaume-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Other Title:
Безъ солнца.
Place of Publication:
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2012]
Language Note:
French and English dialogue; optional English subtitles; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
System Details:
Blu-ray disc, Region A; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; mono; requires Blu-ray player.
digital
optical
mono
video file
region A
Blu-ray
Summary:
La jetée: While at the Orly Airport observation deck, a boy sees a man shot. Shortly afterwards World War III breaks out and Paris is destroyed by nuclear weapons. As one of the survivors, the now grown man is chosen as part of an experiment in time travel because he has a strong grasp on a moment in the past-- the image of the man being shot at the airport. He is successfully sent back in time. But once in the past, he falls in love with a girl, and defies orders to return and be with her.
Sans soleil: This film addresses the themes of time, space, and geography. It is "a collage of images gathered from Japan, Africa, Iceland, San Francisco, and France -- all presented without direct sound. The soundtrack consists of occasional spells of electronic music while an unseen woman's voice ... narrates letters written by a possibly fictional traveler in poetic verse. Beginning with the phrase "He wrote me," each segment explores some philosophical inquiry of matters as broad as modern culture, technology, consciousness, Japanese television, and even the act of filming itself"--Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi.
Contents:
La jetée (1963, 27 min., b & w) / Argos-Films présente avec la participation du Service de la recherche de la R.T.F. ; un photo-roman de Chris Marker
Bez solnt︠s︡a = Sunless = Sans Soleil (1983, 103 min., b & w and col.) / Anatole Dauman proposes ; conception and editing, Chris Marker.
La jetée (1963, 27 min., b&w) / Argos-Films présente avec la participation du Service de la recherche de la R.T.F. ; un photo-roman de Chris Marker
Безъ солнца = Sunless = Sans Soleil (1983, 103 min., b&w and col.) / Anatole Dauman proposes ; conception and editing, Chris Marker.
Participant:
La jetée: narrator, Jean Negroni ; cast: Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux, André Heinrich, Jacques Branchu, Pierre Joffroy, Etienne Becker, Philbert von Lifchitz, Ligia Borowcyk, Janine Klein, Bill Klein, Germano Faccetti.
Sans soleil: Sandor Krasna's letters were read by Alexandra Stewart (English version) and Florence Delay (French version).
Credits:
La jetée: editor, Jean Ravel ; music, Trevor Ducan.
Sans soleil: electronic sounds, Michel Krasna ; song, Arielle Dombasle ; still photography, Martin Boschet, Roger Grange ; special effects, Hayao Yamaneko.
Notes:
Title from container.
Originally released as motion pictures in 1963 and 1983.
Wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio).
Special features: new video interview with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin; "Chris on Chris," a video piece on Marker by filmmaker and critic Chris Darke; two excerpts from the French TV series Court-circuit (le magazine) directed by Luc Lagier- the first, a look at David Bowie's music video for "Jump they say," inspired by La Jetée, the second an analysis of Hitchcock's Vertigo and its influences on Marker; "Junkopia," a 6 min. film by Marker, Frank Simone and John Chapman about the emeryville Mudflats; new and improved English subtitle translations; booklet with new essay by Marker scholar Catherine Lupton, an interview with Marker, and notes on the films and filmmaking by Marker.
Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions.
Contains:
Container of: Jetée (Motion picture)
Container of: Jetée (Motion picture). English.
Container of: Sans soleil (Motion picture)
Container of: Sans soleil (Motion picture). English.
Bez solnt︠s︡a.
Sunless.
Безъ солнца.
ISBN:
9781604655360
1604655364
OCLC:
776712593
Publisher Number:
715515091114
CC2107BD The Criterion Collection

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