Chris Marker
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Birth Name: Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve
Born: 29 July 1921 Died: 29 July 2012
Country of origin: France
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The Idiot's Guide To Famous (Classic) Filmmakers
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Directors to follow or discover
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Published 10 years, 4 months ago
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My favorite film of my favorite directors
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Favorite Filmmakers
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Chris Marker (French: [maʁkɛʁ]; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), Le Joli Mai (1963), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983). Marker is often associated with the Left Bank Cinema movement that occurred in the late 1950s and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Henri Colpi and Armand Gatti.
His friend and sometime collaborator Alain Resnais called him "the prototype of the twenty-first-century man." Film theorist Roy Armes has said of him:
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1. 12 Monkeys
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2. La Jetée (1962)
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4. Sans Soleil (1983)
Rating: | 145 Watched |

5. Statues Also Die (1953)
Rating: | 31 Watched |
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1. La Jetée (1962)
Rating: | 432 Watched |

2. Sans Soleil (1983)
Rating: | 145 Watched |

3. Statues Also Die (1953)
Rating: | 31 Watched |

5. Loin du Vietnam (1967)
Rating: | 23 Watched |
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1. Tokyo-Ga (1985)
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3. A.K. (1985)
Rating: | 21 Watched |

4. Le joli mai (1963)
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1. The Oscars (2013)
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