Celebrities list / Chris Marker

"But to tell the truth, I no longer watch many films, only those by friends or curiosities that an American acquaintance tapes for me on TCM.[...] And I feed my hunger for fiction with what is by far the most accomplished source: those terrific American TV series like Deadwood, Firefly, or The Wire... There is a knowledge in them, a sense of story and economy, of ellipsis, a science of framing ...

Chris Marker's La Jetee already a viewmaster movie?

Juni Films 183. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ( Yves Simoneau , 2007) :: 8.0 184. Three on a Match ( Mervyn LeRoy , 1932) :: 7.6 185. Ai no corrida ( Nagisa Oshima , 1976) :: 6.0 186. La jetée ( Chris Marker , 1962) :: 10.0 187. Hansel & Gretel ( Pil-Sung Yim , 2007) :: 7.3 188. ...

Hello zetes and Everyone, Horror (and related) viewings last week: Straight Into Darkness (2004) - Jeff Burr World War II. Two deserting American soldiers are being transported to prison. A series of unexpected events free them, and soon they are cast loose over a ravaged, wasted land, initiating a journey straight into darkness (filmed in some atmospheric regions in Romania). They ...

Hello Chris and Everyone, Horror (and related) viewings last week: Straight Into Darkness (2004) - Jeff Burr World War II. Two deserting American soldiers are being transported to prison. A series of unexpected events free them, and soon they are cast loose over a ravaged, wasted land, initiating a journey straight into darkness (filmed in some atmospheric regions in Romania). They ...

June 1st-7th Drag Me to Hell (2009, Sam Raimi) La Strada (1954, Federico Fellini) The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001, Woody Allen) Angst essen Seele auf (1974, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) Up (2009, Pete Docter) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Stanley Kubrick) Crimewave (1985, Sam Raimi) Falling in Love (1984, Ulu Grosbard) Amblin (1968, ...

Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town Godard's Contempt For Your Consideration Burden of Dreams (Herzog and the making of Fitzcarraldo) CQ Official Rejection Dreams on Spec Strictly Background RKO 281 (a dramatization of the making of Citizen Kane and its aftermath) Shadow of the Vampire (a fantasy/horror film built around the making of Murnau's Nosferatu) The Cutting Edge: The Magic ...

Nothing of Chris Marker's should be dismissed as "silly" without some kind of argument to back it up. That might be acceptable of Les Astronautes (although that was probably more Borowczyk than Marker), but certainly not La Jetée. Also, in regards to Halloween, Zombie's film might have better "frames" (no doubt as a result of a far superior budget and a more experienced crew than the one ...