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Article: The marker file. (Editor's Letter).
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- Film Comment
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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Chris Marker is movie history's most incompletely understood major artist--at least from an English-language perspective. He is rightly venerated among cinephiles for a handful of films and videos, most notably his 1962 science-fiction short, La Jetee; his epic, years-in-the-making history of militant/revolutionary struggle, A Grin Without a Cat; his 1982 global meditation on memory, Sans soleil; and his 1993 elegy for the lost utopian dream of Soviet Russia and its cinema, The Last Bolshevik. And yet this list represents just a fraction of Marker's output over the past 50 years.
Much of his work is no longer in circulation, and the rest remains little more than ...