Cover image for La jetée Sans soleil.
Title:
La jetée Sans soleil.
ISBN:
9781934121559
Edition:
Guillame-approved special ed.; widescreen format (1.66:1).
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2007.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 p. : col., ill. ; 18 cm.)
General Note:
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.
Contents:
La jetée (1963, 27 min.) / Argos-Films présente ; avec la participation du Service de la Recherche de la R.T.F. ; un photo-roman de Chris Marker-- Sans soleil = Sunless (1983, 103 min.) / conception and editing, Chris Marker.
Added Corporate Author:
Added Uniform Title:
Jetée (Motion picture)

Sans soleil (Motion picture)
Added Title:
Sunless.

Chris on Chris.

Memory's apostle : Chris Marker, 'La jetée', and 'Sans soliel'.

Rare Marker : an interview.
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.
System Details:
DVD, REGION 1; DOLBY DIGITAL MONO.
Language Note:
IN FRENCH, WITH OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES.

SUBTITLED FOR THE DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING.
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