TY - ADVS AU - Branchu,Jacques AU - Chatelain,Hélène AU - Darke,Chris AU - Gorin,Jean-Pierre AU - Hanich,Davos AU - Heinrich,André AU - Ledoux,Jacques AU - Lupton,Catherine AU - Marker,Chris AU - Négroni,Jean AU - Stewart,Alexandra ED - Argos Films. ED - Criterion Collection (Firm) ED - Office de radiodiffusion-télévision française. TI - La jetée: Sans soleil SN - 193412155X PY - 2007/// CY - [Irvington, N.Y.] PB - Criterion Collection KW - DVD KW - Foreign films KW - Photographers KW - Drama KW - Time travel KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Documentary-style films KW - Experimental films KW - Feature films KW - Science fiction films KW - Short films N1 - "Enhanced for 16:9 televisions"--Disc label; Booklet contains a critical essay by Marker scholar Catherine Lupton ("Memory's apostle : Chris Marker, 'La jetée', and 'Sans soliel'"), an autobiographical essay by Marker fans Catherine Brighton & Andrew Brighton ("This is the story"), an interview with Marker by Samuel Douhaire & Annick Rivoire ("Rare Marker : an interview", originally published in French in 2003, translated into English by Marker in 2007); and various notes by Marker; Special features: video interviews with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin (from 2005); "Chris on Chris" (a video piece on Marker by writer Chris Darke, 10 min.); two excerpts from the French TV series "Court-circuit (le magazine)" directed by Luc Lagier (a 2 min. long look at David Bowie's 1993 music video for "Jump they say", which was inspired by "La jetée" & a 9 min. long analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and its influence on Marker); La jetée (1963, 27 min.) / Argos-Films présente ; avec la participation du Service de la Recherche de la R.T.F. ; un photo-roman de Chris Marker-- Sans soleil = Sunless (1983, 103 min.) / conception and editing, Chris Marker; La jetée: Editing, Jean Ravel ; music by Trevor Duncan; Cast for La jetée: Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux, André Heinrich, Jacques Branchu ; narrated by Jean Negroni; Sans soleil: Letters read by Alexandra Stewart N2 - La jetée: An unnamed man experiments with time travel, in hopes of finding a solutions to the problems of his post-apocalyptic home era. Narrated almost entirely using black-and-white still photographs; Sans soleil: Actress Alexandra Stewart reads and comments on the letters she receives from (fictional) Sandor Krasna, a world-traveling freelance cameraman. Explores the immense diversity of the human species and its differing societies ER -