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Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 9:24 pm
by swo17
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of Marker's birth with 50% off the Icarus releases of his films using the code
bonus points if you can guess it
CAT100
Sale goes through the end of the month. I highly recommend The Owl's Legacy and the Medvedkin double feature!

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 9:46 pm
by knives
I recommend all of them. Also my guess was Guillaume

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 9:59 pm
by swo17
Well sure, I recommend them all as well, but which ones do you highly recommend?

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 2:11 am
by therewillbeblus
swo17 wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 9:24 pm I highly recommend The Owl's Legacy
Is the blu-ray option listed on their site real? On a cursory search it's only listed as DVD on Amazon, blu-ray.com, etc. I can't find mention of a blu-ray in existence

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 2:20 am
by swo17
Yes, I have it though it is a BD-R

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 2:21 am
by therewillbeblus
swo17 wrote: Thu Jul 29, 2021 2:20 am Yes, I have it though it is a BD-R
Thanks for confirming- are their DVDs also DVD-Rs?

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 2:25 am
by swo17
I think it's hit or miss, like their initial runs were pressed but you'll get a DVD-R if those have run out. Also, here is some good discussion of the Owl's Legacy Blu-ray, which is preferable to the DVD if only because it fixes a subtitle issue

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 2:28 am
by therewillbeblus
Thanks!

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 2:36 am
by therewillbeblus
Is anyone else having a problem purchasing more than one of these DVDs at a time? Every time I add one to my cart, the last one disappears, and going to checkout only allows me to purchase the last one added- However, if I go and add another copy of the one now-missing, it'll show up as me ordering two copies of it. So the site is recording my entries but splitting my carts in two or something

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 4:55 am
by swo17
I was having a similar problem. I eventually got everything I wanted in the cart at the same time, but the code wouldn't apply to the On Strike! DVD, so I sent an email to ask about it and am waiting to hear back

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 2:54 pm
by dadaistnun
I noticed that about On Strike last night as well. Just checked and the code is working for it now.

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 3:27 pm
by swo17
Nice, thanks for the tip. I was able to get the cart thing to work by hitting "continue shopping" before searching for each new item. Shipping was...not cheap, but the deal was still worth it

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 4:27 pm
by therewillbeblus
I've been trying the "continue shopping" thing from the beginning, and still no luck (I'm just trying to get The Owl's Legacy and A Grin Without a Cat)- honestly it looks like they may be cheaper on Amazon even without super expensive shipping, but I'd like to support the company if they could just fix whatever this error is

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 4:28 pm
by swo17
Try emailing [email protected]

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 4:30 pm
by therewillbeblus
swo17 wrote: Thu Jul 29, 2021 4:28 pm Try emailing [email protected]
Thanks, I had sent one to [email protected] last night and no response yet- I'll try Ian

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 4:38 pm
by swo17
I got a response from Ian this morning about the On Strike issue, shortly after dadaistnun's post

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 7:55 pm
by therewillbeblus
swo17 wrote: Thu Jul 29, 2021 4:38 pm I got a response from Ian this morning about the On Strike issue, shortly after dadaistnun's post
Thanks for the tip, Ian was incredibly helpful- we had to do it over the phone but he was super nice and flexible around logistics

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 8:19 pm
by swo17
Glad to hear it. Did you get a confirmation email? Because I didn't

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 8:34 pm
by therewillbeblus
swo17 wrote: Thu Jul 29, 2021 8:19 pm Glad to hear it. Did you get a confirmation email? Because I didn't
No, but Ian said the guy who does the billing isn't in today and will be tomorrow so maybe that's why? He also said that he's accessible by email so I'm sure you can reach out with any questions. Very flexible guy and one of my better customer service experiences ever

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 9:16 pm
by Grand Wazoo
Has anyone who ordered a Marker dvd received a shipping notice?

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 9:24 pm
by swo17
Not me

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 9:45 pm
by therewillbeblus
Nope- I also got the impression that it'd be slow to ship by the flexibility informally offered around the deal's time parameters during my phone call

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 3:54 pm
by dadaistnun
My package arrived today; did not get a shipping notice. Shipped from a fulfillment center in Georgia, btw, not Brooklyn in case anyone is factoring in location to delivery time. (I'm in upstate NY.)

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2021 3:20 am
by swo17
My shipment actually arrived on the 7th (to an old address, which is why I didn't know until now). The five titles I ordered all included pressed discs, though Le Joli Mai did not include the advertised booklet

Re: Chris Marker on DVD

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2023 10:32 pm
by lzx
Swift wrote: Fri Jun 15, 2018 9:26 pm Does anybody know who does the English narration on Letter from Siberia? A quick google seems to suggest that it's never been revealed/widely known.
Super belated answer, but the 1982 NYFF program notes credit the English voice actors as Catherine Le Couey and Henri Pichette. No idea if it's the same Henri Pichette as the author of Les Épiphanies, though I must say I very much enjoyed his performance and find it more effective than Georges Rouquier's, especially during the Yakutsk sequence. (I couldn't find any evidence that Pichette also did the English narration for Sunday in Peking, though the two voices certainly sound similar!)