880-01 La jetée [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Argos-Films présente ; avec la participation du Service de la Trouvaille de la R.T.F. ; un photo-roman de Chris Marker. Bez" solnt͡sa = Sun less = Sans soleil / Janus Films ; Argos-Films ; Anatole Dauman proposes ; conception and editing, Chris Marker.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2007
Description:
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 p. : col., ill. ; 18 cm.)
La jetée: Récitant (narrator), Jean Negroni; 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). La jetée originally produced in 1963; Sans soleil in 1982. Booklet contains the essays "Memory's apostle: Chris Marker, 'La jetée', and 'Sans soleil'" by Catherine Lupton, "The Pathéorama" by Chris Marker, "This is the story" by Catherine and Andrew Brighton, "Rare Marker: An interview" by Samuel Douhaire and Annick Rivoire, "Notes on filmmaking" by Chris Marker, and three unattributed essays, "On 'Sans Soleil,'" "The names of 'Sans Soleil,'" and "Racine/Eliot." Non-Latin script record
Contents:
(27 min.) (1963); Special features: Jean-Pierre Gorin [featurette] (22 min.); Chris on Chris [featurette] (10 min.); On "Vertigo" [featurette] (9 min.); David Bowie's "Jump They Say" [featurette] (2 min.). Orly, Sunday -- Paris, soon afterwards -- Survivors -- Guinea pig -- Tenth day -- Thirtieth day -- New tests -- Around the fiftieth day -- Future -- Orly, Sunday (27 min.) (1963); Special features: Jean-Pierre Gorin [featurette] (22 min.); Chris on Chris [featurette] (10 min.); On "Vertigo" [featurette] (9 min.); David Bowie's "Jump They Say" [featurette] (2 min.). (103 min.) (1982); Jean-Pierre Gorin [featurette] (18 min.). Happiness -- Banalities -- Emus and cats -- Rewriting memory -- "Things that quicken the heart" -- Return to Tokyo -- Memory box -- Sacred signs -- Animism -- Guinea-Bissau -- Hachiko -- Politics -- Baby Martians -- Dreams -- Tokyo scored -- Death -- History -- Impossible memory -- "Sunless" -- Okinawa -- Island of Sal -- January in Tokyo -- "The Zone" -- End credits -- Color bars (103 min.) (1982); Jean-Pierre Gorin [featurette] (18 min.).
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. An unknown woman reads letters she has received from Sandor Krasna, a world-traveling freelance cameraman. The epigraphs Marker has chosen illuminate his purpose. The French version is by Racine "L'éloignement de pays répare en quelque sorte la trop grand proximité des temps." This is balanced by this quotation from Eliot in the English version, "Because I know that time is always time / And place is always and only place / And what is actual is actual only for one time / And only for one place."
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