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| Chris
Marker |
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| Director
/ Screenwriter / Cinematographer / Editor / Producer |
| 1921 - |
| Born July 29,
Ulan Bator, Mongolia |
| Key
Production Country: France |
| Key Genres:
Documentary,
Essay Film,
Avant-garde/Experimental |
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Collaborators: Anatole
Dauman (Producer) |
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Highly Recommended: La
Jetée (1962) |
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Recommended:
Sans soleil (1983) |
| Worth
a Look: Lettre
de Siberie (1957), Les Astronautes (1959)
[co-directed by Walerian Borowczyk],
iCuba Si! (1961), The Koumiko Mystery
(1966), The Last Bolshevik (1992) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [ Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[
Wikipedia ] [ The
Films of Chris Marker ] [ Boston
Phoenix Article (2000) ] [
Strictly
Film School ] |
| Books: [
Chris Marker (Contemporary Film Directors) ] [
La
Jetée: cine-roman ] [
Chris Marker ] [
Chris Marker (French Film Directors) ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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| 1,000
Greatest Films:
La Jetée
(1962), Sans soleil (1983) |
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"Marker
is the foreign correspondent and inquiring reporter. He is
especially interested in transitional societies, in "Life in the
process of becoming history," as he has put it. His films are
not only set in specific places, they are about the cultures of
those places. Though he has tended to work in socialist
countries more than most Western filmmakers, he is also
fascinated by Japan. Concerned with leftist issues, he remains a
member of the intellectual Left, politically committed but not
doctrinaire. "Involved objectivity" is his own phrase for his
approach." -
Jack C. Ellis and Guo-Juin Hong (The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia, 1998) |
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"Arguably the
cinema's greatest essayist, he transcends traditional
documentary with his exhilaratingly personal reports on the
world, discursive filmed letters which - even in Le Joli Mai,
a comparatively straightforward cinéma verité
account of Parisians in 1962 - adopt the quizzical perspective
of a stranger in a strange land." - Geoff
Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999) |
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"Jean
Queval once called Marker "our unknown cosmonaut." It was
a striking idea that, while Americans trod the ashy moon in
cumbersome suits, so Marker with camera over his shoulder - like
Dziga Vertov's hero - had proved himself a more penetrating
traveler...His films see nothing exceptional in an inquisitive
traveler sending back films about the lands he has seen and the
thoughts he has had while there." -
David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002) |
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