{"id":86,"date":"2006-08-29T16:41:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T20:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/86"},"modified":"2007-03-05T16:36:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T20:36:13","slug":"letter-from-siberia-1957-chris-marker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/86","title":{"rendered":"Letter From Siberia (1957, Chris Marker)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, Chris Marker Fest is off! Even though I’ll never actually finish it, it’s nice to begin.<\/p>\n

Hour-long documentary of Marker’s travels in Siberia. Messes with the documentary format by incorporating cartoons, opera, lots of anthropomorphic animals, and Marker’s usual poetry and humorous narration.<\/p>\n

\"1\"<\/p>\n

Piss-poor picture quality on the copy I saw, but clearly a great movie. English spoken narration with subtitles in the opera parts.<\/p>\n

References to cats and owls:
\n – talking owl wearing “I Hate Elvis” button
\n – from a plane, “silver birches look like owls’ tracks in the snow”
\n – “cars wend their way between the trains like cats playing hide and seek in a railway depot”
\n – song about a reindeer: “oh reindeer, sweet and just \/ friend of the birds and owls \/ they nest in your branches \/ happy he who has ideas in his head \/ happier still, he who has birds”<\/p>\n

\"2\"<\/p>\n

Made me wish I was in Siberia with the talking owls and leashed bears, the gold rush, the reindeer races, the underground laboratories, the frontier towns and endless birch forests. Funny, I think this is one of the early movies that Marker has disowned. I’ll take it if he doesn’t want it.<\/p>\n

A fox yawning:
\n\"3\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, Chris Marker Fest is off! Even though I’ll never actually finish it, it’s nice to begin. Hour-long documentary of Marker’s travels in Siberia. Messes with the documentary format by incorporating cartoons, opera, lots of anthropomorphic animals, and Marker’s usual poetry and humorous narration. Piss-poor picture quality on the copy I saw, but clearly a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,7,93,349],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-chris-marker","tag-documentary","tag-siberia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}