La jetée Sans soleil
Title:
La jetée Sans soleil
Author:
Marker, Chris, 1921-2012.
Edition:
Guillaume-approved Blu-ray special ed.
Publication Information:
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2012]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
General Note:
Title from container.
Originally released as motion pictures in 1963 and 1983.
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.
Language:
French
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 solnt͡sa = Sunless = Sans Soleil (1983, 103 min., b&w and col.) / Anatole Dauman proposes ; conception and editing, Chris Marker.
Added Uniform Title:
Jetée (Motion picture). English & French.
Sans soleil (Motion picture). English & French.
Added Title:
Bez solnt͡sa.
Sunless.
ISBN:
9781604655360
UPC:
715515091114
Format :
Blu-Ray
