On Apr 19, 3:29=A0am, Tom Sutpen <tomsut...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 18, 10:17=A0pm, death from above <cerebureaucr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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> > could it be that La Jetee by Chris Marker was inspired by Orson
> > Welles's The Trial
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> *****
> 'La Jetee' was screened for the first time approx. 6 months BEFORE
> Welles' film had its world premiere in Paris, you bloody idiot.
>
> Tom Sutpen
Well yes, they were both completed in 1962 (at the height of the Cuban
Missile Crisis, adding to the contingent resonance and urgency of
Marker's meditation), each though with different subsequent release
patterns (eg Marker's short received wider theatrical release as a
sup****t to Godard's Alphaville in 1965), but as to 'influences' on
Marker's La Jetee, the primary ones were Proust (Remembrance of Things
Past) and Hitchcock's Vertigo (both obsessions in his later work too,
from Sans Soleit to Immemory to Remembrance of Things To Come).
[Kafka's proto-modernist works, The Trial and The Castle, influenced
just about every avant-garde modernist film-maker during the
existentialist 1950s/1960s].
(A trivial 'similarity': as Deleuzian 'time-image' films, both feature
as a central space the inter-zone of a [Parisian]station, an old train
station in Welles' adaptation and an air****t jetty in Marker's film.)
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