| Edition |
[Special ed.] |
| Description |
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 p. : col., ill. ; 18 cm.) |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 387 |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 387.
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| Note |
La jetée originally released in 1962; Sans soleil in 1983. |
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Extras: video interview with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin; Chris on Chris; 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 Jetee; the second, an analysis of Hitchcock's Vertigo and its influences on Marker. 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." |
| Credits |
La jetée: montage [editing], Jean Ravel ; musique de Trevor Duncan. |
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Sans soleil: electronic sounds, Michel Krasna ; song, Arielle Dombasle ; still photography, Martin Boschet, Roger Grange ; special effects, Hayao Yamaneko. |
| Cast |
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. |
| Performer |
Sans soleil: Sandor Krasna's letters were read by Alexandra Stewart (English version) and Florence Delay (French version). |
| 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. |
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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." |
| System Details |
DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital mono. |
| Language |
French or dubbed English dialogue, optional subtitles in English ; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) |
| Subject |
Time travel -- Drama.
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Photographers -- Drama.
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Travel -- Drama.
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Travelers' writings -- Drama.
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Africa -- Drama.
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Japan -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Experimental films.
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Science fiction films.
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Documentary-style films.
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Fiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Short films.
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Motion pictures, French.
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| Added Author |
Marker, Chris, 1921-2012- Director.
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Dauman, Anatole, 1925-1998. Producer.
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Duncan, Trevor. Composer.
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Négroni, Jean. Actor.
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Chatelain, Hélène. Actor.
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Hanich, Davos. Actor.
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Ledoux, Jacques. Actor.
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Heinrich, André, 1923- Actor.
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Stewart, Alexandra. Actor.
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Delay, Florence, 1941- Actor.
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Gorin, Jean-Pierre. Commentator.
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Janus Films.
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Argos Films.
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Office de radiodiffusion-télévision française. Service de la recherche.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Bez" solnt︠s︡a |
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Sun less |
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Sunless |
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Jetée (Motion picture)
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Sans soleil (Motion picture)
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| ISBN |
193412155X |
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9781934121559 |
| Standard No. |
715515023924 |
| Music No. |
CC1694D Criterion Collection |
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