{"id":10693,"date":"2015-12-02T20:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T02:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10693"},"modified":"2015-12-01T13:14:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T19:14:40","slug":"inventory-chris-marker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10693","title":{"rendered":"Inventory: Chris Marker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since I first watched Sans Soleil<\/em> on VHS (probably by recommendation of John at Videodrome) it’s been one of my very favorite movies. I’d previously seen La Jetee<\/em> on one of those late-90’s shorts DVDs with a commentary track by the writers of Gilliam’s great adaptation 12 Monkeys<\/a><\/em>. For the next decade, these were almost the only available Marker films on video, but IMDB claimed he’d directed fifty more. With help from the mighty Internet, I set out to find and watch as many of these as possible, reading a couple books and following a few sidetracks along the way. As recently stated in my Post-Dissolve<\/a> write-up, it’s getting kinda old to make endless projects for myself and finish none of them, so ten years after starting the Chris Marker Completism Project it’s time to declare it a success and organize my mess of Marker posts.<\/p>\n

Warning: links go to journal posts… sometimes there are multiple short Marker films per post, or one Marker will be lumped in with unrelated shorts, or I’ll watch the same film twice and write about it in two places. Release years may be wrong, and I’ve chosen English or French titles on a whim.<\/p>\n

Thirteen Marker-involved Masterpieces:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday in Peking<\/a><\/em> (1956) \/ Letter From Siberia<\/a><\/em> (1957) \/ Description of a Struggle<\/a><\/em> (1960)
\nLa Jet\u00e9e<\/a><\/em> (1962)
\nA Valpara\u00c3\u00adso<\/a><\/em> (1963, dir. Joris Ivens)
\nThe Koumiko Mystery<\/a><\/em> (1965)
\nIf I Had Four Dromedaries<\/a><\/em> (1966)
\nFar From Vietnam<\/a><\/em> \/ The Sixth Side of the Pentagon<\/a><\/em> (1967)
\nSans Soleil<\/a><\/em> (1983)
\nImmemory<\/a><\/em> (1998)
\nRemembrance of Things to Come<\/a><\/em> (2001, with Yannick Bellon)
\nChats perch\u00e9s<\/em> \/ Case of the Grinning Cat<\/em><\/a> (2004)<\/p>\n

Three (point one) great filmmaker documentaries:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A.K.<\/a><\/em> (1985)
\nThe Last Bolshevik<\/a><\/em> (1992) \/ The Train Rolls On<\/a><\/em> (1971)
\nOne Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich<\/a><\/em> (2000)<\/p>\n

Three more popular features:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grin Without a Cat<\/a><\/em> (1977)
\nLe Joli Mai<\/a><\/em> (1963)
\nLevel Five<\/a><\/em> (1997)<\/p>\n

Advanced Studies:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cin\u00e9tracts<\/em> (1968) & Blue Helmet<\/em> (1995)<\/a>
\nThe Second Trial of Artur London<\/a><\/em> (1970)
\nBroadway By Light<\/em> (1958 William Klein) & Eclipse<\/em> (1999)<\/a>
\nThree Video Haikus<\/a><\/em> (1994)
\nCuba Si<\/a><\/em> (1961)
\nPictures at an Exhibition<\/em> (2008) & Silent Movie<\/em> (1995)<\/a>
\nThe Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer<\/a><\/em> (1974)
\nThe Owl’s Legacy<\/a><\/em> (1989)
\nJunkopia<\/a><\/em> (1981)
\nTokyo Days<\/em> (1986) & Berlin ’90<\/em> & Prime Time in the Camps<\/em> (1993)<\/a>
\nBe Seeing You<\/em> (1968) & 2084<\/em> (1984) & We Maintain It Is Possible<\/em> (1973) & Set Theory<\/em> (1985)<\/a>
\nMatta<\/a><\/em> (1985)
\nEmbassy<\/em> (1973) & Viva la baleine<\/em> (1972) & Petit Bestiare<\/em> (1990)<\/a><\/p>\n

Also of interest:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Confession<\/a><\/em> (1970, Costa-Gavras)
\nIt For Others<\/a><\/em> (2013, Duncan Campbell)
\nDescription of a Memory<\/a><\/em> (2007 Dan Geva)
\nAmerica as Seen by a Frenchman<\/a><\/em> (1960, Francois Reichenbach)
\nAgn\u00e8s de ci de l\u00c3\u00a0 Varda<\/a><\/em> (2011, Agn\u00e8s Varda)
\nThe Marker Variations<\/a><\/em> (2007, Isaki Lacuesta)
\nThe Battle of Chile<\/a><\/em> (1975-78, Patricio Guzm\u00e1n)
\nHappiness<\/a><\/em> (1934, Alexander Medvedkin)
\nLes Astronautes<\/a><\/em> (1959, Walerian Borowczyk)<\/p>\n

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\nThere are still some I haven’t found, but none that I’m killing myself to acquire. In this post<\/a> I looked at some missing films from 1967-1977. I’m also missing subtitles for his Simone Signoret doc from 1986 and La Spirale<\/em> from 1976, and haven’t bothered with the appalling-looking and untranslated youtube copy of his debut Olympia ’52<\/em>. I haven’t forgotten the Alain Resnais collaborations, but will get to them in a later post.<\/p>\n

Olympia ’52:<\/em>
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