La Jetee
Popef*cker scores once again, this time with the Google Video presentation of Chris Marker's La Jetee, a 29-minute short film from 1964 that's unfortunately more well-known for being remade years later by Terry Gilliam as 12 Monkeys than for its own virtues.
If you're familiar with 12 Monkeys, you know the story. If not, it involves murder, nuclear war, time travel, and love. It's told almost entirely with stills, resembling a flickering slide show with dissolves, fades, zooms, and other cinematic transitions. The one scene where the film does move (18m 40sec) is breathtaking.
Marker's film has been very hard to find on video and dvd (as has the Bruce Mau-designed book, a natural extension of the film), so its posting on Google Video is just fantastic. It's in the original French narration, but an English transcription is available here. I think the images speak much louder than the narration does, so I recommend watching it the first time without reading along.
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If you're familiar with 12 Monkeys, you know the story. If not, it involves murder, nuclear war, time travel, and love. It's told almost entirely with stills, resembling a flickering slide show with dissolves, fades, zooms, and other cinematic transitions. The one scene where the film does move (18m 40sec) is breathtaking.
Marker's film has been very hard to find on video and dvd (as has the Bruce Mau-designed book, a natural extension of the film), so its posting on Google Video is just fantastic. It's in the original French narration, but an English transcription is available here. I think the images speak much louder than the narration does, so I recommend watching it the first time without reading along.
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Thank you so much for this! Are you aware of an online version with subtitles? I suppose subtitles would get in the way, but I would like to know none the less.
ReplyDeleteI am digging around myself, maybe I will try to add subtitles to the video from the script you linked to.
Sorry about repeating, I am trying to track this conversation using cocomment. Same as above, thank you!
ReplyDeleteshajith - If you can find it, the dubbed narration is very good. When I've seen this in theaters, that's the way it's been presented.
ReplyDeleteI found a youtube video with 7 minutes of footage from the movie, dubbed in English. No luck finding the whole movie.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the youtube uploader though, there is a compilation on Amazon which has the dubbed version. Gonna see if I can get that!
Err, the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WXMp5BHZ_o
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