Comments on: Touché Times

By: Сталкер

Сталкер — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:48:18 +0000

There’s another review focusing on The Last Bolshevik and Alexander Medvedkin’s Happiness in the NY Times: Dave Kehr, “Chris Marker and Alexander Medvedkin”, New York Times, 8 April 2008.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/movies/homevideo/08dvds.html

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:13:48 +0000

Seems like they do at the LSE…

http://clt.lse.ac.uk/Projects/index.php#statues

By: markertext

markertext — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:44:39 +0000

^ Seen it subtitled on film, but never elsewhere. Wonder if there’s a video copy of the subtitled 16mm in a Uni archive somewhere.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:25:50 +0000

Is there a english subtitled version of ‘Les Statues..’ in existence?

By: markertext

markertext — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:28:05 +0000

fwiw, Resnais’ Toute la memoire… is available on the UK DVD of Marienbad. And my understanding is that Marker did, in fact, have a hand in it (credited as ‘Chris and Magic Marker’). Les Statues would be nice though…

Owl’s Heritage episodes are often downloadable from eMule if you’re not opposed to p2p.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:07:28 +0000

I have a copy of The Owl’s Heritage… it’s a VHS capture but pretty watchable.. apart from the last episode being missing… d’oh.. Drop me a mail if you want it.

By: Сталкер

Сталкер — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:25:34 +0000

Thanks for the correction and the useful information from your correspondence with Criterion. Personally I am hoping the most for a DVD release that would throw together Les Statures meurent aussi and Si j'avais quatre dromedaires, with an extra of Resnais' Toute la mémoire du monde, which is so Marker-esque one could be forgiven for thinking CM might have had a hand, eye or ear in it... The Owl's Heritage, which I have never to this day seen, I can only dream about.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:49:14 +0000

This exact Last Bolshevik DVD set, with english subtitles, has actually been available for 3 years in France… it was always a mystery to me why its existence wasn’t promoted in the english speaking world.

I hope the trend continues! Letter from Siberia and 2084 would be marvelous…

I sent an email to Criterion when they released Sans Soleil/La Jetee last year asking if any more Marker titles were in the works and they said:

“There are a variety of reasons that his films are not available. He absolutely forbids certain early films – like LETTER FROM SIBERIA – from being released, and I’m told that he would like to do some re-editing of LE JOLI MAI before it makes its way out there. First Run/Icarus does have a few of his films available on VHS but I think they might only sell to educational markets.

We’d love to do more. Sorry I can’t be of more help right now.”