TY - ADVS AU - Marker,Chris ED - Criterion Collection (Firm) TI - La jetée: Sans soleil T2 - The Criterion collection SN - 193412155X : AV - PN1997.A1 J4844 2007 PY - 2007///] CY - [United States] PB - Criterion Collection KW - Time travel KW - Drama KW - Feature films KW - Short films KW - Science fiction films KW - Travelogues (Motion pictures, television, etc.) KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Africa KW - Japan N1 - Title from container; La jetée originally produced in 1962; Sans soleil, in 1983; Special features: new, restored high-definition digital transfers, approved by director Chris Marker; new video interviews with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin; Chris on Chris, a video piece on Marker by filmmaker and critic Chris Darke; two excerpts from the French TV series "Court-circuit (le magazine)" directed by Luc Lagier N2 - "La jetée" was the inspiration for Terry Gilliam's film "Twelve Monkeys" and is almost entirely narrated using black and white stills. After Paris is destroyed in a third world war, the survivors are forced to retreat underground where scientists conduct strange time-travel experiments in an effort to escape to a better past or future. In "Sans soleil", an unknown woman reads the writings of a cameraman who travels the world to produce a study of "the dreams of the human race"; he is particularly attracted to the two extremes of Japan and Africa, and discusses the images that he creates with the woman ER -