Chris Marker CD-Rom

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Very intrigued to see how this works, since Marker's films work for me in a rather non-linear way anyway. Has anyone got it? Where can I get it?

― Nathan Webb (Nathan Webb), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

You can get it on Amazon. You used to be able to order it through Exact Change's (http://www.exactchange.com) distributor but I don't think that's the case at the moment.

It's good, but not quite as good as I had expected (if you've seen the French version, it's exactly the same with most text translated into English).

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:10 (twenty-three years ago)

not for pc? : (

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris Marker is an Apple zealot (he authored much of the CD-ROM on his IIgs) so there's no way he'd approve a PC edition.

Incidentally Sans soleil and La Jetee just came out on a French DVD, with both English and French soundtrack options.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Is the version on amazon.co.uk the french version? It's £34... I got mine (English version) from amazon.fr. Once you get over the now sort of primitive-looking design (it's a few years old now after all; actually, its simplicity grew on me: means you focus more on the material), it's every bit as intriguing as the films. One of its real joys, as Ian Penman's Wire review pointed out, is that Marker writes like a dream. Given that I've never been able to get hold of any of his books, this is a delight (right now, I go to bed with Gaston Bachelard's "Poetics of Reverie" and wake up to "Immemory": a scintillating combination).

― Brian Dillon (Brian Dillon), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

"Incidentally Sans soleil and La Jetee just came out on a French DVD, with both English and French soundtrack options. "

Any extras to tempt me away from my VHS copies, Amateurist?

― Nathan Webb (Nathan Webb), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I found a book that Marker wrote on author Jean Giraadoux (whose Choice of the Elect is now available in English translation plug plug) in the 1950s and he is a great writer (as the voice-overs on his films should attest). Based on the evidence on the CD-ROM, he's a wonderful still photographer as well.

The CD-ROM's best feature: a few ravishing frames of Simone Genevois in La Merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard a strange claim re La Jeteé, that Chris Marker preferred the English-dubbed version. Has anyone else heard this?

― No One (SiggyBaby), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

He prefers that English-speaking audiences hear the English version (which was prepared by Marker, who speaks English fluently) rather than read subtitles. I've also seen Letter from Siberia, Grin without a Cat (a.k.a. La fond de l'air est rouge), and Sans soleil with wonderful English narration.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Did "Level 5" ever get a VHS/DVD release, does anyone know?

― Nathan Webb (Nathan Webb), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)

i have la jetee on some short dvd compilation (in english).

i'd be interested in that french import of sans soleil (i've only seen it on screen).

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:36 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.artefrance.fr/boutique/produit/fiche_produit.cfm?id_article=1623657

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Interesting. I’ve only seen La Jetee and San Soleil in French, mais je parle tres bien. This explains why the previous Region 1 DVD that contained La Jetee only had an English soundrack.

― No One (SiggyBaby), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Excellent!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

(Especially considering I just got a Mac avec DVD last week.)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

seventeen years pass...

RIP FLASH!!!!

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7188-the-deaths-and-rebirths-of-chris-marker-s-cd-rom-immemory

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 2 January 2021 02:47 (five years ago)

Chris Marker is an Apple zealot (he authored much of the CD-ROM on his IIgs) so there's no way he'd approve a PC edition.
Incidentally Sans soleil and La Jetee just came out on a French DVD, with both English and French soundtrack options.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, March 11, 2003 12:21 PM (seventeen years ago)

The irony that SJobs killed Flash dead beyond the grave.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 2 January 2021 02:51 (five years ago)

http://gorgomancy.net/

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 2 January 2021 03:06 (five years ago)

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