Although it lacks the substance of efforts like the similarly titled "Grin Without a Cat," it does demonstrate that this cinematic provocateur has lost little of his gift for social observation. it ...

LEAVE it to Chris Marker, the 85-year-old French documentarian and cineaste hero, to take an unexceptional event and turn it into an exceptional film. The event is the appearance in the early 2000s of ...

Approaching 85, cine-essayist Chris Marker remains as lively, engaged, and provocative as ever—and no less fond of indirection. (His La Jetée is not only a movie about the pathos of time travel, but a ...

Chris Marker is often referred to as the pioneer of the "essay-film," which makes his work sound far drearier than it actually is. It may be better to think of him as a charmingly provocative ...

Chris Marker’s The Case of the Grinning Cat (Chats perchés) follows the appearance of the yellow M. Chat graffiti across Paris in the early 2000s, using it as a lens to reflect on art, protest, and ...