The home movie is one of the first forms of a moving image that everyone encounters. Before you are even aware of what a camera is, you have most likely been filmed by one. Seeing that image played ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chris Marker, the tirelessly inventive and influential Gallic filmmaker and multimedia artist known for his philosophical ruminations on time and memory, including the 1962 sci-fi classic “La Jetee” ...

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 - ...

Chris Marker, the great French documentary filmmaker, died in Paris this week at the age of 91. He was an innovator, with many famous films to his credit, including the science fiction short film La ...

With its eccentric eye, its exotic locations, its peripatetic ways, zipping between the economic miracle of Japan and recently liberated Guinea-Bissau, and its philosophical musings, Sans soleil can ...

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, ...

Mr. Marker was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve in 1921. He got his start as a journalist writing for the French intellectual journal Esprit and Cahiers du Cinema, and became affiliated with ...