“The past is dead!” In the premiere episode of Why This Film?, Ron and Dr. Dennis Weiss dive into Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), a groundbreaking French short from the Criterion Collection that redefined what cinema could be. Composed almost entirely of still photographs, it’s a haunting meditation on memory, time, and human longing. Dennis — a retired philosophy professor and curator of the long-running Philosophy, Drinks & Film series — joins Ron to explore how La Jetée uses form, soun...
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“The past is dead!” In the premiere episode of Why This Film?, Ron and Dr. Dennis Weiss dive into Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), a groundbreaking French short from the Criterion Collection that redefined what cinema could be. Composed almost entirely of still photographs, it’s a haunting meditation on memory, time, and human longing. Dennis — a retired philosophy professor and curator of the long-running Philosophy, Drinks & Film series — joins Ron to explore how La Jetée uses form, soun...
“The past is dead!” In the premiere episode of Why This Film?, Ron and Dr. Dennis Weiss dive into Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), a groundbreaking French short from the Criterion Collection that redefined what cinema could be. Composed almost entirely of still photographs, it’s a haunting meditation on memory, time, and human longing. Dennis — a retired philosophy professor and curator of the long-running Philosophy, Drinks & Film series — joins Ron to explore how La Jetée uses form, soun...
“The past is dead!” In the premiere episode of Why This Film?, Ron and Dr. Dennis Weiss dive into Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), a groundbreaking French short from the Criterion Collection that redefined what cinema could be. Composed almost entirely of still photographs, it’s a haunting meditation on memory, time, and human longing. Dennis — a retired philosophy professor and curator of the long-running Philosophy, Drinks & Film series — joins Ron to explore how La Jetée uses form, soun...
