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2009 | 2008 | 2006
11 articles from 2008
Blu-ray Review: The Man Who Fell to Earth (Criterion Collection)
28 December 2008 11:05 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I never would have watched The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) had I not been sent the Blu-ray for review. Of the first four Blu-rays released by Criterion it is the one title I wouldn't have actually shelled out money for even though I was intrigued after watching the trailer. However, first impressions aren't always everything but after watching the film itself, listening to the accompanying audio commentary and watching the group of supplements included with this release I can still say it is a film I would never buy, but not necessarily because it is a bad film as much as it just isn't my kind of film. Reading the accompanying essay written by critic Graham Fuller the recognition of director Nicolas Roeg as an experimentalist pretty much says it all. In my experience experimental films are going to be a hit or miss with audiences (most often miss …
- Brad Brevet
On DVD: "Irma Vep," "Flow: For the Love of Water"
9 December 2008 8:59 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
By Michael Atkinson
In the years since "Irma Vep" (1996), French iconoclast Olivier Assayas has become more of a high-profile and international filmmaker, and at the same time a less interesting one; "Alice and Martin," "Les Destinées Sentimentales," "demonlover," "Clean" and "Boarding Gate" have all been films bristling with dramatic ideas that have been, at the same time, often half-baked or unoriginal. His yen for high-nicotine, antisocial coolness seems by now a reflex he should outgrow, but in "Irma Vep" it made perfect, hilarious, seamless sense, because the film is actually about the chaotic life of "art film" production (a swollen balloon waiting for a satiric pin), and because his star, Maggie Cheung, is the paradigmatic fish out of water, a sweet-natured Hong Kong movie star lost in the absurd nonsensicalities of post-post-nouvelle vague French cinema culture.
In many ways, the film -- still Assayas' best -- is a crazy matrix …
- Michael Atkinson
Criterion Puts Movies Online
25 November 2008 7:50 AM, PST | Spout.com | See recent Spout news »
The Criterion Collecton has opened up an online streaming shop, where twenty films can currently be watched online for $5. Your five dollars gives you the right to watch the film as many tines as you like for a week, and for a full year after that they'll apply a $5 credit to the purchase of that DVD from their online store. Titles available now include Juliet of the Spirits, Cleo From 5 to 7, and Chris Marker's Sans Soleil. Also -- and this may be old news, but it's new to me -- Criterion is curating a "festival" of free films every month in partnership with <a hr …
- Karina Longworth
Criterion Puts Movies Online
25 November 2008 7:50 AM, PST | Spout.com | See recent Spout news »
The Criterion Collecton has opened up an online streaming shop, where twenty films can currently be watched online for $5. Your five dollars gives you the right to watch the film as many tines as you like for a week, and for a full year after that they'll apply a $5 credit to the purchase of that DVD from their online store. Titles available now include Juliet of the Spirits, Cleo From 5 to 7, and Chris Marker's Sans Soleil. Also -- and this may be old news, but it's new to me -- Criterion is curating a "festival" of free films every month in partnership with <a hr …
- Karina Longworth
Chris Marker's Grinning Cat
4 September 2008 9:26 AM, PDT | GreenCine | See recent GreenCine news »
"The Case of the Grinning Cat shows [Chris] Marker as light on his feet as you'll ever find him, segueing from the important (émigrés and descendants of émigrés rallying against Le Pen's anti-immigrant platform) to the trivial (a cat stuck in a tree)," writes Michael Fox atSF60: "It's a deceptively free-flowing style, but it's anything but random.... At a brisk 42 minutes, Remembrance of Things to Come is a perfect length to simply start from the beginning after you've watched it once. If you don't see 10 or 20 things you missed the first time, I'll be amazed. You may have already concluded that DVD is a perfect medium for Chris Marker, since his cunning, calculated work requires and repays multiple viewings.... Marker's great talent as a filmmaker is giving us the impression that any digression is welcome, any accident is providence and anything can happen, even as he is firmly in control. …
- underdog
Review: Chris Marker’s The Sixth Side Of The Pentagon and The Embassy
2 September 2008 6:24 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
The pairing of The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1967, 26 minutes, black & white and color, English) and The Embassy (1973, 21 minutes, color, English) on a single DVD might be the curious viewer’s best entry point into Chris Marker’s filmography.The Sixth Side of the Pentagon is a high-adrenaline piece of agit-prop documenting mass-protests at the United States Pentagon on October 21, 1967 that culminated in the now-famous attempt to “levitate” the Pentagon. The Embassy, on the other hand, uses fiction to comment on the politics of the ‘60s
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- Rodney Perkins
The Films of Chris Marker: An Introduction
2 September 2008 6:09 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Many are familiar with Marker’s landmark film La Jetèe, a post-apocalyptic tale told through montage. Marker’s filmography, however, is quite diverse, covering twentieth century art, history, and politics. Marker’s films have had limited availability in the United States (Criterion’s edition of La Jetèe backed with San Soleil stands as the major release). On September 2, 2008, Icarus Films released four Region 1 DVD sets, at least one of which contains two discs, that represents large chunks of Marker’s filmography. These DVDs were previously only available through the Wexler Center for the Arts in Ohio. In response to this event, reviews of all 4 DVD sets are presented here in four separate articles. The length and level of detail provided in each piece varies depending on numerous factors, including overall length of the films, and the depth of supplementary materials.
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- Rodney Perkins
Review: Yannick Bellon and Chris Marker’s Rememberance Of Things To Come
2 September 2008 2:45 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
On January 17, 1938, the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme opened at the Galerie des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. The event, organized by André Breton and Paul Eluard, was a major moment in the 20th century art as key works by Salvador Dali (pictured to the left), Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray were presented to the public for the first time. The evidence of these works as well as this unique moment was captured by photographer Denise Bellon, whose beautiful black and white photography has become synonymous with these works.
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- Rodney Perkins
Review: Chris Marker’s The Case Of The Grinning Cat
2 September 2008 2:44 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Chris Marker begins The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004, 58 minutes, color, separate English and French audio tracks) by documenting the convergence of a flash mob in Paris. Above the public space where the mob convenes is a painted image of a grinning cat that began to appear throughout Paris after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Marker uses the image of M. Chat, as this yellow feline would be called, to weave together a real-life mystery about the cat’s origins that that ties together politics and humor in post-9/11 France.
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- Rodney Perkins
Review: Alexander Medvekin’s Happiness and Chris Marker’s The Last Bolshevik
2 September 2008 2:43 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
The dual release of Alexander Medvedkin’s Happiness (1934, 64 minutes, black and white) and Chris Marker’s The Last Bolshevik (1993, 2 x 60 minutes, black & white and color, separate English and French audio tracks) from Icarus Films will probably be the most comprehensive overview of the life and work of Alexander Medvedkin that will ever exist. Happiness is Medvedkin’s key work and Marker’s documentary provides the context necessary to understand the film’s special place within the history of Russian cinema. The hours of material presented on these two DVDs is dense but anyone who spends the time to absorb what is presented will be rewarded with some of the most engaging cinema to appear anywhere in 2008.
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- Rodney Perkins
The Films of Chris Marker, "Boarding Gate"
10 June 2008 5:20 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
By Michael Atkinson
I'm sorry, but if my choices are superheroes, Sarah Jessica Parker's handbag materialism, Ashton Kutcher, learn-to-love-again indies and an Adam Sandler comedy that couldn't even muster enough jokes for a two-minute trailer, then I'll stay home and have a conversation with Chris Marker. I'll at least be assured of having truthful contact with a real human consciousness, of having learned, of having been made aware of cultural connections no other artist would make and of bearing witness to first-hand history. An integral soldier in the French New Wave, Marker is famous here only for "La Jetée" (1962), the beloved all-stills time travel mega-short that was remade by Terry Gilliam as "12 Monkeys." Though he's remained a prolific manufacturer of cinema into his 80s, he's never been a meta-acrobat like Godard and Resnais and Rivette, nor a romantic ironist like Truffaut or Rohmer or Demy, and it's been virtually impossible to see his films, …
- Michael Atkinson
2009 | 2008 | 2006
11 articles from 2008
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