Blu-ray Release Date: Feb. 7, 2012
Price: Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
True love stands the test of time in La Jetée.
Two movies by the seminal French artiste Chris Marker receive Blu-ray makeovers by Criterion: the influential, radical science-fiction short film classic La Jetée (1963) and the mind-bending free-form documentary/travelogue Sans Soleil (1983).
The two films — a tale of time travel told in still images (and the inspiration for Terry Gilliam’s 1995 feature 12 Monkeys) and a stunning visual journey to Africa and Japan — remain the most widely seen films ever made by Marker, who’s also been recognized as a poet, novelist, photographer, editor and now videographer and digital multimedia artist.
Criterion released both movies on DVD before.
In the new Blu-ray, La Jetée and Sans Soleil got restored high-definition digital transfers, approved by Marker, with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack.
The Blu-ray contains the following features:
- two interviews with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Chris on Chris, a video piece on Marker by filmmaker and critic Chris Darke
- two excerpts from the French television series Court-circuit (le magazine): a look at David Bowie’s music video for the song “Jump They Say,” inspired by La Jetée, and an analysis of Hitchcock’s Vertigo and its influence on Marker
- Junkopia, a six-minute film by Marker about the Emeryville Mudflats
- booklet featuring an essay by Marker scholar Catherine Lupton, an interview with Marker, notes on the films and filmmaking by Marker, and more
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