Xixax Film Forum
The Director's Chair => The Director's Chair => Topic started by: hedwig on April 02, 2009, 10:49:50 AM
i recently watched La Jetée and Sans Soleil, two Chris Marker films released together on dvd by criterion:
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(i was delighted to see macguffin's La Jetée avatar only a matter of days after i watched the film!)
both deal in amazing ways with time and memory,
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La Jetée in the form of a 27 minute photomontage sci-fi tragedy about a time travel experiment.
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and Sans Soleil as a documentary made of transcendent scenes and images filmed in Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Paris, and San Francisco. an extremely moving exploration of the fractal nature of memory.
i wish i had seen these when i was younger. recommended to everyone.
i've only seen those two as well but they are both fantastic.
i'd recommend this as well:
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