If you ’ve never seen the 1962 scientific discipline fiction film La Jetée — which inspired Terry Gilliam ’s Twelve Monkeys — then you ’re plump to have a new prospect to condition it out . The Criterion Collection is assign out a new Blu - ray version of La Jetée along with Sans Soleil , another film from Chris Marker .
Here ’s how the Criterion Collection draw the solidification :
One of the most influential , radical science - fiction films ever made and a psyche - bending free - cast travelog : La Jetée and Sans Soleil could n’t seem more different - but they ’re the twin pillars of an unparalleled and uncompromising career in cinema . A film maker , poet , novelist , photographer , editor , and now videographer and digital multimedia artist , Chris Marker has been challenging moviegoers , philosophers , and himself for years with his investigations of time , memory , and the rapid onward motion of life on this planet . These two picture show - a tale of time traveling say in still images and a journeying to Africa and Japan - remain his best - love and most widely seen .
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The Blu - ray will have a 1080p digital transport , uncompressed monaural soundtrack , and supplements include : Gillo Pontecorvo : The Dictatorship of Truth , a infotainment narrated by literary critic Edward Said ; Two interviews with film maker Jean - Pierre Gorin ; Chris on Chris , a television piece on Marker by filmmaker and critic Chris Darke ; Two excerpts from the Gallic television serial Court - circuit ( le magazine ) ; A feeling at David Bowie ’s music video for the song “ Jump They Say , ” inspire by La Jetée ; An analysis of Hitchcock ’s Vertigo and its influence on Marker ; Junkopia , a six - second moving-picture show by Marker about the Emeryville Mudflats ; and a booklet boast an essay by Marker scholar Catherine Lupton , an audience with Marker , note on the films and filmmaking by Marker , and more .
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