Publisher: [United States] : Criterion Collection, 2007

Notes: Originally released as motion pictures: “La Jetée” in 1963 and “Sans soleil” in 1983.
“La jetée” was the inspiration for Terry Gilliamś film “Twelve Monkeys” and is almost entirely narrated using black and white stills.
“[La jetée is] One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made, and a mind-bending, free-form travelogue.”–Container.
At head of title: Two films by Chris Marker.
Complete title for “Sans soleil” is “Bez solntsa Sunless Sans soleil.”
Monaural.

Summary: (La jetée – Drama) After Paris is destroyed in a third world war, the surviving humans begin researching time travel, hoping to send someone back to the pre-war world for food, supplies and maybe a solution to their dire position. One man is haunted by a vague childhood memory that will prove fateful. (Sans Soleil – Documentary) A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco

OCLC #: 780028522