I watched it on dailymotion or something w/ subs iirc – that version seems to be on youtube now
― woof, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
will look, thanks
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
Saw the Whitechapel exhibit - There were 5-6 rooms when really you only needed 2-3. Marker made bits of video art but it was hard to get a handle on how out there this stuff was for the time.
Attended a couple of screenings: Sunday in Peking looks gorgeous. I have almost all of these in shagged out copies from a few years ago, when Marker was alive and wouldn't authorise release. Its interesting as to why he thought the early stuff wasn't much cop. I mean he is alert: writing great narration (all with blink-and-you-miss subtle criticism), displays a great eye for colour and its depths (the market in Peking). Really was this stuff worse than some of the late works? I did watch one and the soundtrack was crappy electronica, the narrator's voice was off...
A biography of him would be amazing. Give the criticism (as evidenced by the exhibit) is lacking I bet a Coca-Cola it'll be terrible.
Someone should translate his novel tho'.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
his Level Five (1996) opens in NY/LA today
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-chris-marker-bam
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 August 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
I know a number of Marker stans who can't stand that one. But of course, I'll watch anything he's done, so.
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Friday, 15 August 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
i've seen the CM 'biggies,' anything i should target in the Brooklyn retro that you might've seen?
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 August 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
You've probably seen what I've seen ... everything that's been released on DVD + La Joli Mai, basically.
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Friday, 15 August 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
Level Five isn't great - and it's not helped by lots of ancient computer graphics. It has some great parts to it, though, and it's certainly not without something to say. There's just something about how fragmented it is that doesn't work.
― Spaceport Leuchars (dowd), Friday, 15 August 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
Saw digitally restored Letter from Siberia, which is typically light (animation, playful voiceover) but not frivolous. Also a (faded to pink) print of the 20-min Sunday in Peking, prob the most filmic images of '50s Chinese life I've seen.
(some old codger exiting was grumping about "propaganda," not sure which film he meant)
full house for this, tho it was a room of about 150 seats probably.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
They're really lovely films, but very light. I'm not sure how much he associated them with his later work, a bit workmanlike. But charming. I suppose people might wonder about them being propaganda seeing as they don't explicitly condemn either government? But it's not likely they would.
― Spaceport Leuchars (dowd), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
Icarus Films will release Level Five on DVD and VOD on October 7.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
Cool
― Santiniketan Go Straight To The Ghat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
that's one i've never seen! i don't think it ever got much distribution in the states.
i got that UK "chris marker collection" thing and have been making my way through it. his documentary about israel (description d'un combat), which i hadn't seen in 15 years, is so moving. i wish that lanzmann's "porquoi israel" was more readily available, the two films would make a fascinating comparison.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
might as well add susan sontag's "promised lands" to that list. one thing i like about all three films is their complete absence of glibness. we could use more of that anguished searching now.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
― Spaceport Leuchars (dowd)
OTM. Not a particularly great transfer either.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, the ancient computer graphics combined with VHS bleed kind of make you want to poke your eyes out. I remember there were a couple of interesting ideas (a meditation on footage of a woman jumping to her death?) but nothing that has stuck with me.
― Spaceport Leuchars (dowd), Saturday, 27 December 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
recent addition to my living room - really happy with the job the framers did on this!
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e128/ilxalbums/c245a5e2-0a4a-43b8-be38-6492943d72f9.jpg
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 20 April 2015 22:40 (nine years ago) link
Beautiful.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 21 April 2015 03:40 (nine years ago) link
if you type chris marker into amazon prime search, it comes up with three chris marker films plus "dilbert: the complete series"
― mark s, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
So incredible, watch while you can - the most suppressed of Chris Marker's films, for years was near impossible to find, perhaps because it's his most personal. Vividly restored, and one of the first verite portraits of Post-war Japan from a Western perspective. https://t.co/Xl1nQnOzhE— Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) June 21, 2019
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 21 June 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
He’s not hiding behind a big orange cat it that one, is he?
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 June 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
I haven’t seen it! Mainly putting this here to remind myself to watch
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 21 June 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
I was just joking. When Agnès Varda passed recently I saw a few films of hers in which he appears and because he is camera shy she always obscured him in the fashion described.
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 June 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
Yeah I got that
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 21 June 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
Oh, okay
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 June 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
Thanks for posting. Much, much cleaner than the DVDR copy that I lost a couple moves ago.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 22 June 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
Thanks for posting!!
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 22 June 2019 11:24 (four years ago) link
Seems that French language version just showed up a few weeks ago of La Jetée on Criterion. Hadn’t realized that English language version had equal status.
― If I were a POLL I’d be Zinging (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 June 2019 12:28 (four years ago) link
Dope!
― brimstead, Saturday, 22 June 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
Re: wins post, thx wins
― brimstead, Saturday, 22 June 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
Yeah, thanks, wins.
― If I were a POLL I’d be Zinging (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 June 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
I can't seem to find any prior post, from myself or otherwise, but I really dug this installation he did I saw at MoMA which was called Silent Movie.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1995/videospaces/marker.htmlhttp://www.mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ29/McElhaneyMarker.html
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Haven't reread those links recently. My memory was there was a five high stack of video monitors four around looping black and white footage of a glamorous lady or an old school phonograph, along with mash-up film posters on the nearby walls of things like a Maciste movie directed by René Clair, say.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
I... had no idea!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6U9oKZAaEY
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 8 January 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
Wow. Did he do one for The Psychedelic Furs as well? #OneThread.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 January 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
Fantastic.
― clemenza, Friday, 8 January 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
100th birthday today
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Friday, 30 July 2021 03:05 (two years ago) link
Saw that on Mubi
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 July 2021 03:14 (two years ago) link
― Kizza Me on the Bus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 September 2023 11:09 (seven months ago) link
I used to walk by this interesting-looking super high-window office in Soho which turned out to be for the publishing company Seven Stories Press. Soon I found out that a guy I knew worked there so one day he invited me in. On the walls there were some really interesting posters and drawings. On one wall was a bunch of doodles done by Kurt Vonnegut illustrating the seven (?) basical plotlines such as Man Falls in Hole. On another was a poster full of cool-looking /slightly-pulpy paperback covers that didn’t look quite real. I said “that looks like a Chris Marker thing” and he said “it is!”
― Kizza Me on the Bus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 September 2023 11:18 (seven months ago) link