Chris Marker - A.K. (Portrait of Akira Kurosawa) (1985)

A.K. (Portrait of Akira Kurosawa) 1985 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088658/ Narrated in English. English and Spanish soft subs included. ripped from the 2nd disc for the RAN criterion release. Director Chris Marker, long known as an originator of the essay film format and for his singular works La jetee (1962) and Sans soleil (1983), was given unprecedented access to Akira Kurosawa on the slopes of Mount Fuji. The result is an insightful portrait of a master filmaker at work. Screens: http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc282/deadmeadow33/AKchrismarker1985_preview.jpg Production : Serge Silberman / Greenwich Film Productions, Herald Ace, Herald Nippon Direction : Chris Marker Photography : Frans-Yves Marescot Assistant DOP : Tsutomu Ishizuka, Hiroshi Ishida Narration : Francois Maspero (french) / Hanns Zischler (german) Sound : Jun'ichi Shima Sound editor : Catherine Adda Music : Toru Takemitsu Special Effects : Patrick Duroux A.K. focuses on Akira Kurosawa during the shooting of Ran. A.K. details Kurosawa's meticulous directorial role. The film is filmed exclusively in the foothills of Mount Fuji, the setting for Ran. Marker film opens with Kurosawa's proclamation: "I always say to my crew, to create is to remember. Memory is the basis of everything." Marker evokes the fist of this phrase almost a decade later when in an epigraph to The Last Bolshevik he quotes George Steiner: " It is not the the literal past tat rules us. It is images of the past." A.K. details the production of visual spectacle based on memory, exploring how images of history are artfully created and crafted. For instance, the film reveals that Kurosawa always set up three cameras to record three different angles that could later be edited together. Marker's documentary footage establishes one more perspective. Furthermore, his images, shot in 35mm, rival those of Kurosawa. But, whereas Ran plunges us into a medieval world of shoguns, samurai and beautiful horses, A.K. portrais the workers of the film industry and depicts a very contemporary scenery of cars, trailers and scaffolding. It also captures the lenghty preparations, the boredom of waiting for optimal weather conditions, and the tedious process of waiting for the actors and the crew to get into position. In short, Marker's film focuses specifically on the extensive labor that goes into making the magic of a film. As such, A.K. is essentially an essayistic homage to a style of filmmaking that is radically different from Marker's own and yet one that he evidently respects and admires. Name.......................: A.K. (chris marker, 1985).avi Filesize....................: 891 MB (912,572 KB / 934,473,728 bytes) Runtime...................: 1:14:39 (107,368 fr) Frame Size..............: 640 x 480 [1.333] (4:3) Video Codec............: XviD Video Bitrate............: 1500 kb/s Qf.............................: 0.255 bits/pixe Fps...........................: 23.976 Audio Codec............: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Bitrate............: 44000Hz 160 kb/s tot , Joint Stereo

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