Mubi is exclusively showing João Moreira Salles In the Intense Now (2017) from May 3 - June 2, 2018 in the series May '68: When Everything Seemed Possible.João Moreira Salles’ essay film In the Intense Now is playing on Mubi as part of a May ‘68 double-bill alongside Romain Goupil’s Half a Life. Salles’ film explores the implications of well-known revolutionary images; questioning the familiar calling cards of May ‘68’s political upheaval. A meditative film that stands out against the familiar narrative, In the Intense Now focuses not only on the events in France, but on other political events of the same milieu: those occurring in Prague, Beijing and Rio de Janeiro. The film’s necessary pessimism calls the past as we know it into question, reminding viewers that we often experience these events second-hand via a series of provided images and figureheads that might require re-assessment. On the other hand, the...
- 5/10/2018
- MUBI
It’s just a few weeks until this year’s Oscars, which means the Hollywood machine is running out of steam to provide “new angles” on various awards season campaigns and Oscar bloggers are trying to squeeze traffic out of last-minute prediction shifts. It’s fitting, then, that around this time every year we get a rather substantial update of one of the most comprehensive polls on the greatest films of all-time, not simply the November/December releases with the biggest marketing budget come Academy Awards time.
That’s right, They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? has now published their 2017 edition of 1,000 Greatest Films, culled together from an exhaustive list of major publications and critics. Still topped by Citizen Kane, I often find the most interesting portion to be those films that have most moved around, for better or worse, especially those with newfound critical admiration. This year, Terrence Malick...
That’s right, They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? has now published their 2017 edition of 1,000 Greatest Films, culled together from an exhaustive list of major publications and critics. Still topped by Citizen Kane, I often find the most interesting portion to be those films that have most moved around, for better or worse, especially those with newfound critical admiration. This year, Terrence Malick...
- 2/13/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
From today through August 28, New York's BAMcinématek is presenting a comprehensive retrospective of films by Chris Marker. The highlight is the North American premiere of Level Five (1996). We gather reviews of this "playful, ruminative and melancholy" sci-fi "adventure" (New York Times) and point to overviews of the series, featuring not only Marker's best known works, La Jetée (1962) and Sans Soleil (1983), but also early travelogues, such as Sunday in Peking (1956) and A Letter from Siberia (1958), and political essays along the lines of A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and The Last Bolshevik (1993). » - David Hudson...
- 8/15/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
From today through August 28, New York's BAMcinématek is presenting a comprehensive retrospective of films by Chris Marker. The highlight is the North American premiere of Level Five (1996). We gather reviews of this "playful, ruminative and melancholy" sci-fi "adventure" (New York Times) and point to overviews of the series, featuring not only Marker's best known works, La Jetée (1962) and Sans Soleil (1983), but also early travelogues, such as Sunday in Peking (1956) and A Letter from Siberia (1958), and political essays along the lines of A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and The Last Bolshevik (1993). » - David Hudson...
- 8/15/2014
- Keyframe
Chris Marker, 1921-2012
Chris Marker, the enigmatic but influential French filmmaker and artiste whose career spanned six decades, died in Paris on July 29, 2012, at the age of 91.
Best known to Stateside audiences for his 1962 sci-fi-fueled romantic drama short La Jetée and the free-form documentary/travelogue Sans Soleil (1983), Marker may have been primarily acknowledged on these shores as an avant filmmaker, but he was much more. He leaves behind a vast body of work that includes his contributions as a writer, photographer, videographer, multimedia artist and, most notably, a film essayist.
A vaguer cinematic categorization than “documentary,” a film essay focus more on an idea than a narrative—what appears on the screen is not a story, but rather an essay, or a survey that fills out the definition of the subject. The result reflects the mark of the essayist, but said “signature” is more of a tone or style than...
Chris Marker, the enigmatic but influential French filmmaker and artiste whose career spanned six decades, died in Paris on July 29, 2012, at the age of 91.
Best known to Stateside audiences for his 1962 sci-fi-fueled romantic drama short La Jetée and the free-form documentary/travelogue Sans Soleil (1983), Marker may have been primarily acknowledged on these shores as an avant filmmaker, but he was much more. He leaves behind a vast body of work that includes his contributions as a writer, photographer, videographer, multimedia artist and, most notably, a film essayist.
A vaguer cinematic categorization than “documentary,” a film essay focus more on an idea than a narrative—what appears on the screen is not a story, but rather an essay, or a survey that fills out the definition of the subject. The result reflects the mark of the essayist, but said “signature” is more of a tone or style than...
- 8/8/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
French film director and writer Chris Marker died on Monday, aged 91.
Born on July 29, 1921, the “craftsman” joined the French Resistance during the Second World War, then became a journalist. He stepped onto the French cultural scene as a writer, then became a filmmaker. From the 1950s onwards, he travelled the world directing documentaries, including one about the Helsinki Olympics (Olympia 52) and another about African art (Statues Also Die with Alain Resnais). His love of travel gave rise to many projects, including Letter from Siberia and Cuba Si.
In 1962, he made the The Pier, for which he won the Prix Jean Vigo, and in 1963 he and Pierre Lhomme together directed Joli Mai, a documentary featuring Yves Montand’s voice about Paris after the Evian Agreements. In 1967, he contributed to the ensemble film Far from Vietnam with Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, and Joris Ivens. In the wake of May 1968, he focused on militant film collective I.
Born on July 29, 1921, the “craftsman” joined the French Resistance during the Second World War, then became a journalist. He stepped onto the French cultural scene as a writer, then became a filmmaker. From the 1950s onwards, he travelled the world directing documentaries, including one about the Helsinki Olympics (Olympia 52) and another about African art (Statues Also Die with Alain Resnais). His love of travel gave rise to many projects, including Letter from Siberia and Cuba Si.
In 1962, he made the The Pier, for which he won the Prix Jean Vigo, and in 1963 he and Pierre Lhomme together directed Joli Mai, a documentary featuring Yves Montand’s voice about Paris after the Evian Agreements. In 1967, he contributed to the ensemble film Far from Vietnam with Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, and Joris Ivens. In the wake of May 1968, he focused on militant film collective I.
- 8/1/2012
- by Cineuropa
- DearCinema.com
Experimental French director acclaimed for his post-apocalyptic film La Jetée
The essay film, a form pitched between documentary and personal reflection, exploring the subjectivity of the cinematic perspective, has now become an accepted genre. Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Luc Godard, Errol Morris and Michael Moore are among its main recent exponents, but Chris Marker, who has died aged 91, was credited with inventing the form.
Marker's creative use of sound, images and text in his poetic, political and philosophical documentaries made him one of the most inventive of film-makers. They looked forward to what is called "the new documentary", but also looked back to the literary essay in the tradition of Michel de Montaigne. Marker's interests lay in transitional societies – "life in the process of becoming history," as he put it. How do various cultures perceive and sustain themselves and each other in the increasingly intermingled modern world?
He was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve,...
The essay film, a form pitched between documentary and personal reflection, exploring the subjectivity of the cinematic perspective, has now become an accepted genre. Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Luc Godard, Errol Morris and Michael Moore are among its main recent exponents, but Chris Marker, who has died aged 91, was credited with inventing the form.
Marker's creative use of sound, images and text in his poetic, political and philosophical documentaries made him one of the most inventive of film-makers. They looked forward to what is called "the new documentary", but also looked back to the literary essay in the tradition of Michel de Montaigne. Marker's interests lay in transitional societies – "life in the process of becoming history," as he put it. How do various cultures perceive and sustain themselves and each other in the increasingly intermingled modern world?
He was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve,...
- 7/30/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
In Sans Soleil, a cine-essay from 1983 that feels like it’s from 2083 (and remains the paragon of the form), the narrator speaks of an idea for a film. This imaginary film would be about a man on our planet, from the year 4001 Ad, who comes back in time to our era and is moved by the realization that in our time, people are capable of forgetting. You see, this time-traveler comes from a future where forgetting is impossible, where humans have figured out how to condition the brain to remember everything. In this future society, memories hold none of the emotional impact that they do for those who can forget, since “Total recall is memory anesthetized.” Our time-traveler thinks that it’s unjust that in our time, humans have to struggle to remember, as well as struggle to forget. In the typical nuanced fashion of the filmmaker, Chris Marker, the...
- 7/30/2012
- by Zachary Wigon
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The controversial Left Bank Cinema director scored an arthouse hit with Sans Soleil and made the brilliant, haunting, highly influential La Jetée
• Chris Marker obituary
Chris Marker, the enigmatic master of left-field French cinema, has died at the age of 91. The artist and film-maker was best known for his award-winning documentary Sans Soleil and for his haunting drama La Jetée, charting the quest for memory in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.
Born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, Marker fought for the French Resistance and then cut his teeth as a journalist and a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma. He made his film debut with Olympia 52, a documentary on the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, and went on to become a leading light of the Left Bank Cinema movement alongside his friends Agnès Varda and Alain Resnais. In 1961 he sparked controversy with the documentary Si Cuba, a film that praised Fidel Castro, denounced America...
• Chris Marker obituary
Chris Marker, the enigmatic master of left-field French cinema, has died at the age of 91. The artist and film-maker was best known for his award-winning documentary Sans Soleil and for his haunting drama La Jetée, charting the quest for memory in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.
Born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, Marker fought for the French Resistance and then cut his teeth as a journalist and a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma. He made his film debut with Olympia 52, a documentary on the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, and went on to become a leading light of the Left Bank Cinema movement alongside his friends Agnès Varda and Alain Resnais. In 1961 he sparked controversy with the documentary Si Cuba, a film that praised Fidel Castro, denounced America...
- 7/30/2012
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
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