Marker is, in many ways, an aphorist at heart. He has a rare intellectual elegance. He exhibits a whimsy so dry it seems more schematic than whimsical. “You need a lot of tact to do good cooking for desperate people,” the narrator says in “The Embassy.” “The owl is to the cat what the angel is to man,” he says in “An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl,” one of the animal shorts.

- “Chris Marker: the best known author of unknown movies,” Boston Globe [Mark Feeney, August 31, 2008]