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A couple of the I Love Film folk have requested that film posts be posted there instead of here in order to help revive their on-line film community. Just thought I'd mention it.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 30 October 2004 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link

BEST FILM EVER MADE etc etc

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 30 October 2004 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link

'Sans Soleil' that is

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 30 October 2004 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link

So, anyone know how I can snag a copy of Far from Vietnam with English subs? I'm afraid I will never see this film.

-- Eric H. (ephende...), October 30th, 2004.

i can ask my collector friend about it. are you in the states or what?

i met the producer of this film recently.

― amateur!!st, Saturday, 30 October 2004 05:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Hurting - it's no fun starting (or even reviving) a thread and getting no responses on ILF - this thread would have been lucky to get to a quarter of the length over there.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 30 October 2004 10:41 (nineteen years ago) link

it's not like the ILB folk complain about book threads on ILX (i know you are not complaining either).

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 30 October 2004 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

colin, do you like chris marker's films and would I?

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

i can ask my collector friend about it. are you in the states or what?

I implore you! I would be eternally in your debt just for questioning. (Yes, I'm in the states.)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 October 2004 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Let's put it this way: I am about four or five internet sessions away from saying "fuck it" and ordering from this site (despite not really knowing very much French, at all, and fearing that Loin du Vietnam is probably a pretty talky film):

http://www.pimpadelicwonderland.com/havesgenres.html#Anchor-documentaries-43793

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 1 November 2004 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link

i have only seen La Jetee, cozen. I love it and you would too, yes.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 1 November 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

there seem to be a few hosts for "La Jetee" on Limewire if you have a fast connection where you are.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

you can get far from vietnam on a japanese dvd, with japanese subtitles

la jetée is both very atypical of marker and quite representative of his concerns and obsessions (some of them)

― amateur!!st, Monday, 1 November 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

i have la jetee on my computer if you have a gmail acct

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

gmail can only handle 10 (or 20?) mb files at a time.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 1 November 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

ahh... most unfortunate... well.... anyone know of any online petitions or anything to get more chris marker films available on dvd here in the states? so far only la jetee, right?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 1 November 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

no marker films available on dvd in the states that i know of.

there is a sans soleil/la jetee dvd in the uk. and one in france.

his film "ak" is on certain deluxe editions of kurosawa's ran.

and inevitably there are things available in japan.

but otherwise, nothing.

most of his films have never enjoyed very good distribution, even some of the most famous ones like le joli mai.

i have some of his films on video dubs, but i can't make further copies for anyone, don't have the technical capabailities.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 1 November 2004 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link

one problem is that chris marker tends to work ad-hoc, in a different production context for each film (at least, this was true through the 80s, i think the situation may be different for the past 15 years). he gets a comission or scrapes together funding from diverse sources. hence many problems getting the stuff into video release.

i'd like to see le mystere koumiko, cuba si, description d'un combat, etc. more widely available. not to mention le fond de l'air est rouge.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 1 November 2004 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

la jetee is available as part of the short circuit series on the dreams-issue dvd... widely available.

also, sans soleil is (or at least was) available on vhs here.

these, sadly, are the only 2 i've seen.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link

la jetwée

-- mark s (mar...), November 19th, 2003.

ha!

― amateur!!st, Monday, 1 November 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd like to see... le fond de l'air est rouge.
-- amateur!!st (-...), November 1st, 2004 1:18 PM.

Perhaps the luckiest "catch" I've ever had in my moviegoing life. Actually, scratch that "perhaps."

Well, I'd imagine that I'll just buy the DVD burn of Vietnam and hope it's a little bit less chatty than Sans soleil or Last Bolshevik.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

is alain resnais worth investigating for fans of marker?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

He made a DVD rom a year or so ago - i remember reading a review in the wire.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 1 November 2004 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link

CD rom, of course.

Immemory

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 1 November 2004 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link

This would have been a good topic to post at ILF.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Monday, 1 November 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

"immemory" was covered upthread, oops.

and here also

Chris Marker CD-Rom

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 1 November 2004 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

La Jetee is available in the states on Short 2: Dreams along with a bunch of uninteresting shorts from other people.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 1 November 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I found an mpeg version of "Grin Without a Cat" on edonkey... I could probably share it on s0uls33k if anyone were to express interest.

― Matthew C, Monday, 8 November 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

i have 953mb of 'grin without a cat'. in total it's 2gb. this is about day three i think.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I d/led it two years ago and still haven't watched all of it :/

― Stevie T, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I bought Le Jetee/Sans Soliel on DVD from Fopp last summer for £7 and still haven't watched that...

― Michael Jones, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

i did get a rare-ass short about china from the late 50s off the internet the other day. i will watch. apparently marker himself is behind the suppression of his early stuff. i say apparently because that might be bollocks. but it is pretty striking how rare his old stuff is. 'grin' and the one about the train were both done as anglo versions by a leftist filmmaker called marc karlin (him, ray winstone, and marcello should meet, though karlin is dead) and i guess that might be why they're just about more seeable than, say, 'lettre a siberie'.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

new criterion edition of La Jetee/Sans Soleil out in June.

― Steve Shasta, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

'grin' and the one about the train were both done as anglo versions by a leftist filmmaker called marc karlin

?!

― Eric H., Saturday, 31 March 2007 03:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't mean completely overhauled! karlin was a young guy who was in paris in '68 and sort of worked for marker then. they stayed in touch and he put together the anglo versions is all i know. karlin (by the mid-70s) was part of the berwick street film collective, which made the famous doc 'nightcleaners'. he some films about left-wing... stufff for tv in the eighties, founded the magazine 'vertigo', and died young.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990128/ai_n9659468

details are sketchy, but in an interview in a book called 'looking at class', karlin say: "In the mid-1970s I did the English version of Chris Marker's <<The Train Rolls On>>.

He says also that Marker kind of sent out a round-robin to leftist filmmakers "to send him their offcuts, because he wanted to make a film about what the left censored." And he says much stuff was indeed sent to Marker, and that though the film didn't pan out that way some ofn the material in 'Grin' came from that.

Then he says "Again I did the English version [of <<Le Fond de l'air est rouge>>], a two-and-a-half hour film that Channel 4 showed."

He says Simone Signoret did a speech in the original but that for some reason they brought in an Anglo to do it instead, in English, rather than subtitle it?!?! (Redgrave?) Weird.

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 31 March 2007 07:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Interesting. I wonder if his name shows up in that Catherine Lupton book I haven't finished.

― Eric H., Saturday, 31 March 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

To clarify, I didn't mean for that to sound all "who the hell is this guy," but rather wanted to know more about Marker's alternate versions (which I wasn't aware of him farming out) and thought it was strange that the literature on Marker that I've read doesn't usually say all that much about collaborators.

Then again, I haven't read all that much of the literature on Marker.

― Eric H., Saturday, 31 March 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

new criterion edition of La Jetee/Sans Soleil out in June.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaa

― poortheatre, Sunday, 1 April 2007 02:37 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah that's good news

― admrl, Sunday, 1 April 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

see the criterion thread but it isn't a big advance on the pre-existing dvd :(

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 1 April 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ZeroCrowell

A few Marker films posted piecemeal. Get 'em while they're still there.

― Eric H., Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks Eric.

― Steve Shasta, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Eric, you are the greatest! I just wish statues also die had english subtitles like Level 5 does.

― t0dd swiss, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

six months pass...

almost missed this, closes this weekend. now, could be extended to the 10th.

http://www.peterblumgallery.com/soho.html

― sanskrit, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.peterblumgallery.com/images/aliocha_orly.jpg

― sanskrit, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

http://filmjourney.weblogger.com/2008/10/22/cats-go-barack/

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 23 October 2008 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link

six months pass...

'la joli mai' at NFT today and tomorrow

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 May 2009 10:37 (fifteen years ago) link

a fav

― conrad, Saturday, 16 May 2009 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link

six months pass...

must read for fans of marker and/or vertigo:

http://www.chrismarker.org/a-free-replay-notes-on-vertigo/

― quiet and secretively we will always be together (Steve Shasta), Friday, 11 December 2009 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link

five months pass...

I think we're still catching up with things Marker was thinking about decades ago.

this rings true but tbh felt sorta overwhelmed by sans soliel to the point of not really feeling/thinking anything at all

― has mia ever been so far as to go even do what more like? (Lamp), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link

Only feels like a 'catch up' because his work isn't v available.

Sans Soleil is nowhere near as good la joli mai.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 09:29 (thirteen years ago) link

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