Chris Marker
French filmmaker (1921–2012)
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- July 29, 1921 · Neuilly-sur-Seine
- Died
- July 29, 2012 · 20th arrondissement of Paris
- Nationality
- France
- Work
- film producer, film critic, film director, photographer
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1
1983 · France · documentary
Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #59 · Sight & Sound 2022 directors' poll #72 · Hoberman's annual top 10 1989 #3
1.525 citations - 2
1962 · France · sci-fi
Sight & Sound 2022 directors' poll #35 · Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #67 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
1.183 citations - 3Far from VietnamLoin du Vietnam
1967 · France · documentary, drama
Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1968 #9
0.301 citation - 4The Case of the Grinning CatChats perchés
2004 · France · documentary
Film Comment year-end poll 2006 #42
0.181 citation - 50.181 citation
- 60.111 citation
- 70.111 citation
Complete filmography
All 27 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1952Olympia 52
- 1953Statues Also Die
- 1956Dimanche à Pekin
- 1957Letter from Siberia
- 1959The Astronauts
- 1961¡Cuba Sí!
- 1961Description of a struggle
- 1962La Jetée
- 1963Le Joli Mai
- 1965The Koumiko Mystery
- 1966If I Had Four Dromedaries
- 1967Far from Vietnam
- 1968À bientôt, j'espère
- 1968The Sixth Face of the Pentagon
- 1971Le Train en Marche
- 1973Embassy
- 1974The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer
- 1977A Grin Without a Cat
- 1981Junkopia
- 1983Sans Soleil
- 1985A.K.
- 1989The Owl's Legacy
- 1992The Last Bolshevik
- 1995Casque bleu
- 1997Level Five
- 1999One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
- 2004The Case of the Grinning Cat