Friday, March 30 2012
Revisiting and Rethinking Two Classic Essay Films: ‘La Jetée’ and ‘Sans Soleil’
La Jetée and Sans Soleil are the kind of works that prompt repeated viewing and provoke thought and reflection on film, self, and world.
Friday, March 4 2011
Digital Ghost: Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul Recalls Uncle Boonmee
Celebrated film director and visual artist "Thai Joe" talks to PopMatters about the cost of transmigration, hybridity and fantasy, as his Palm D'Or-winning Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives finally bows stateside after traveling the long and winding roads of the international film festival circuit.
Friday, July 20 2007
La Jetee / Sans Soleil (1962)
The persistence and permutation of memory (or the truth about cats, blondes, Hitchcock, video games, and the post-apocalypse) -- what more would you expect from Chris Marker's entry into the Criterion Collection?
Wednesday, September 13 2006
Chris Marker by Nora M. Alter
With sprawlingly ambitious movies like these to his credit, it's ironic that Marker's best-known film is La Jetee, a 28-minute short composed almost entirely of still photos.
