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"This book version of La Jetee is, to my mind, astonishingly beautiful. It brings a total freshness to the work and a new way to use photos to deal with dramatic events. Not a film's book, but a book in its own right - the real cine-roman announced in the film's credits." - Chris Marker"
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"This book version of La Jetee is, to my mind, astonishingly beautiful. It brings a total freshness to the work and a new way to use photos to deal with dramatic events. Not a film's book, but a book in its own right;the real cine-roman announced in the film's credits.";Chris MarkerLa Jetee, the legendary science fiction film about time and memory after a nuclear apocalypse, was released in 1964 and is considered by many critics to be among the greatest experimental films ever made. (It provided the basis for Terry Gilliam's 1995 film 12 Monkeys.) Chris Marker, who is the undisputed master of the film essay, composed this postapocalyptic story almost entirely of black-and-white still photographs. The story concerns an experiment in recovering and changing the past through the action of memory, yet the film can be read as a poem dominated by a single moving image, which in its context becomes one of the supreme moments in the history of film.This Zone Books edition reproduces the film's original images along with the script in both English and French.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Someone in a hurry left this photograph album at the airport and you picked it up. There's something unsettling about it. Is it from the past, present, or future? Dark and compelling, this is a masterpiece of imagery and spare storytelling, in english and french.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
a close look
1 Aug 2000
Format:Paperback
This book takes the film shot by shot giving you clear images that you can't see on the vhs copies in release. This is the best way of taking a close look at the film that has inspired so many filmmakers over the years.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Beautiful
21 April 2009
Format:Hardcover
This is a beautiful reprinting of the still images that make up the film La Jetée. It also contains the English and French scripts in accompaniment. Unlike all the versions of the movie that I've seen, these images are clear and not washed out. Looking at the images in a book also allows you to really see the details and to pick out more information than watching the film.
If I had a complaint, it's that sometimes instead of printing a full page image, the authors (editors?) would to put multiple small images on a page. Sometimes it's used to good effect (showing "movement" buy letting you see a sequence all at once) and sometimes it just makes you squint.
If I had a complaint, it's that sometimes instead of printing a full page image, the authors (editors?) would to put multiple small images on a page. Sometimes it's used to good effect (showing "movement" buy letting you see a sequence all at once) and sometimes it just makes you squint.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A masterpiece transfered to the page
2 Oct 2001
Format:Paperback
Image and emotion move as you turn the pages. Marker's images are extraordianry in their power to evoke so much humanity in each still.
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