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Chris Marker

Film Review: Not Enough Joy in Director Chris Marker’s “Le Joli Mai”

“Le Joli Mai” is serious and sober, a bit of a downer, climaxing in a lengthy interview with a dullard union official about why he supports the French Communist Party.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Chris Marker, documentary, french film, Pierre Lhomme

Film Review: “Far From Vietnam” — A Remarkable Anti-War Film

Far From Vietnam dared say what no American documentary, even the most radical, would insinuate for fear of being accused of treason: in Vietnam, the Americans were the new Germans.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: -Jean-Luc-Godard, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, Claude Lelouch, documentary, Far From Vietnam, French cinema, Joris Ivens, Vietnam, William Klein

Film Commentary: Time Traveling With and Without Woody Allen

Time travel in movies, whether treated as farce or serious sci-fi mind-bending, sometimes excites us by challenging the idea that we’re trapped in a linear chronology from which we cannot escape, racking up regrets, mistakes, and old-age as we go

By: Taylor Adams Filed Under: Film Tagged: Chris Marker, Film, La jetée, Midnight in Paris, time travel, woody-Allen

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