Most of French director Chris Marker’s films are documentaries (at least, of a sort), but he remains best known internationally for his beautiful 1962 “La Jetée,” a half-hour science-fiction film, ...

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Instead of pegging our picks to a new release, we’re running through the best movies of 1983 ...

In Sans Soleil, a cine-essay from 1983 that feels like it’s from 2083 (and remains the paragon of the form), the narrator speaks of an idea for a film. This imaginary film would be about a man on our ...

In conjunction with the exhibition Words and Places: Etel Adnan, the Wattis Institute, and the graduating class of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Studies at the California College of the Arts ...

Though they were made 20 years apart and are completely different in form—one a post-apocalyptic science-fiction short told through still photographs, the other a sprawling documentary ...

The enigmatic figure's private life is shrouded in secret, but his art, including films "La Jetee" and "Sans Soleil," has been a major influence on global cinema. By Rebecca Leffler La Jetee Poster - ...

Visitors arriving at Greenpoint cinematheque Light Industry yesterday were greeted outside by a shrine to the late French director Chris Monument to filmmaker Chris Marker. It certainly didn’t lack an ...