From: Jay McBride (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2008 - 15:44:41 PDT
New Releases
Four DVDs of Chris Marker Films!
Street Date: September 2, 2008
Prebook Date: NOW!
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The Case of the Grinning Cat·
The Last Bolshevik / Happiness·
Remembrance of Things to Come·
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon / The Embassy·
ICARUS Films Releases Available at microcinemadvd.com
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The Case of the Grinning Cat
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$US 29.98 SRP
European List Prices:
29.98 euros/£19.99
CATALOG # MC-882
UPC: 854565001039
Documentary
2004 · 58 min
The Case of the Grinning Cat
In his most recent film, Chris Marker reflects on art, culture and politics
at the start of the new millennium by embarking on a cinematic journey
through Paris to track down the mysterious appearances of grinning yellow
cat paintings all over the city.
PLUS 7 BONUS FILMS!
A BESTIARY (Five short films on animals):
CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC (3 minutes)
AN OWL IS AN OWL IS AN OWL (3')
ZOO PIECE (3')
BULLFIGHT IN OKINAWA (4')
SLON TANGO (4')
THREE CHEERS FOR THE WHALE (1972, 17')
- Co-Directed with Mario Ruspoli
LEILA ATTACKS (2006, 1')
"Lively, engaged, and provocative!"
- J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
"Further evidence of Chris Marker's exhilarating wit . . . an exceptional
flight of conviction . . . the director's wisdom remains robust."
- Wesley Morris, The Boston Globe.
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The Last Bolshevik & Happiness
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$US 34.98 SRP
European List Prices:
34.98euros/£23.99
CATALOG # MC-883
UPC: 854565001053
Experimental
1993 · 116 min
The Last Bolshevik & Happiness
2-Disc Set
Based on the life and work of the great Russian film director Alexander
Medvedkin (1900-1989), THE LAST BOLSHEVIK is a tribute from one filmmaker to
another through an archeological expedition into film history, exploring the
relations between art and politics in the former Soviet Union.
Aslo included is Medvedkin's silent classic, HAPPINESS (1934, 64 mins), a
surprisingly irreverent comedy about early Soviet efforts at
collectivization, appears on a second disc in a restored, uncut version.
Both films feature supplementary interviews and related short films.
"A great film that almost no one has seen."
- Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
"The most haunting, corrosive, and thoughtful exploration of the train wreck
we called the 20th century."
- Howard Hampton, Artforum
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Remembrance of Things to Come
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$US 24.98 SRP
European List Prices:
24.98euros/£16.99
CATALOG # MC-884
UPC: 854565001060
Documentary
2001 · 42 min
Remembrance of Things to Come
Co-directed with Yannick Bellon
The film profiles the life and work of photojournalism pioneer Denise Bellon
(1902-1999), providing a dazzling historical portrait of the momentous
international events occurring between 1935 and 1955 and a reflection on the
relations between photography, memory, thought and history.
"Unforgettable!" - Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times .
"The film's sheer beauty is enrapturing."
- Jessica Winter, The Village Voice
Includes the bonus film:
COLETTE (1950, 26 mins), by Yannick Bellon
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The Sixth Side of the Pentagon & The Embassy
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$US 24.95 SRP
European List Prices:
24.95euros / £16.99
CATALOG # MC-885
UPC: 854565001046
Documentary
1967 · 47 min
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
& The Embassy
The film is a first-person documentary on the October 1967 March on the
Pentagon for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam, with Marker
filming in the midst of the often violent protest. It is a remarkable time
capsule and a reminder of an historic turning point in the opposition to a
long and unpopular war.
"Eloquent . . . Impressive. . . Chris Marker is among that rare breed of men
in whom the currents of political engagement and searching human honesty
reinforce and enrich rather than antagonize each other."
- Larry Loewinger, Film Quarterly.
Also included is one of Chris Marker's few fiction films, THE EMBASSY (1973,
21 min), which follows political dissidents seeking refuge in a foreign
embassy after a military coup d'état in an unidentified country.
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ABOUT CHRIS MARKER: Chris Marker is the legendary French cinematic essayist
and audio-visual poet. After the Second World War, Marker began as a
writer, publishing his first book in 1949. In the 1950s he turned to
documentary filmmaking, producing over the years such classic works as
Letter from Siberia, Cuba Si!, Le Joli Mai, as well as the legendary sci-fi
short, La Jetée (later made into TWELVE MONKEYS by Terry Gilliam), and Sans
Soleil. Today, after more than fifty years of engaged and artistically
creative work, now working with the latest in digital video and computer
imagery techniques, Chris Marker is recognized worldwide as not only one of
the world's most innovative and influential filmmakers but also, in the
words of Marker biographer Catherine Lupton, "a touchstone for artists,
commentators and audiences in many fields of contemporary audio-visual
culture."
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