https://mrqe.com Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:33:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/heritage-de-la-chouette-l-tv-m100125640/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/heritage-de-la-chouette-l-tv-m100125640/ THE OWLS LEGACY is an intellectually agile, engaging, and sometimes biting look at ancient Greece, its influences on Western cultureand how many eras have reinterpreted the Greek legacy to reflect their own needs. Each of the 13 episodes is centered on a potent Greek word: from democracy and philosophy to mythology and misogyny. Marker convenes and films symposiameals featuring wine and thoughtful conversationin locales including Paris, Tokyo, Tbilisi, Berkeley, and an olive grove on Athens outskirts. Footage from these banquets is interspersed with archival materials and interviews (often featuring a stylized or distorted owl image looming in the background). Markers diverse group of informants includes composers, politicians, classicists, historians, scientists, writers, filmmakers, and actors. Together their contributions form a compelling (and sometimes contradictory) cultural and historical exploration for each theme.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/2084-m100053133/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/2084-m100053133/ Per Mubi: In this short film, Marker critiques, from a Socialist perspective, the role of the trade union movement in France at the dawn of the era of global web economies.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/chats-perches-m100035557/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/chats-perches-m100035557/ Paris 2002. Yellow cats appear on the walls. Chris Marker is looking for these mysterious cats and captures with his camera the political and international events of these last two years (war in Iraq…).

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/cinema-de-notre-temps-une-journee-dandrei-arsenevitch-m100008768/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/cinema-de-notre-temps-une-journee-dandrei-arsenevitch-m100008768/ A documentary about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Filmmakers of our time. The title of the film is a play on the title of Solzhenitsyn’s novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/level-five-m100053801/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/level-five-m100053801/ The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa in Japan during World War 2. She searches the Internet for information on the battle, and interviews Japanese experts and witnesses. The extraordinary circumstances of the Battle of Okinawa lead Laura to reflect deeply on her own life and humanity in general, particularly the influence of history and memories.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/le-tombeau-dalexandre-m100041857/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/le-tombeau-dalexandre-m100041857/ A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia’s struggles over the course of the 20th Century.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/lambassade-m100075481/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/lambassade-m100075481/ After a military coup d’état, political dissidents seek refuge in a foreign embassy. Over the next few days, they are joined by more and more people who are fleeing the military assault: teachers, students, intellectuals, artists, and politicians.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/la-bataille-des-dix-millions-m100029962/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/la-bataille-des-dix-millions-m100029962/ Documentary about economic development in Cuba, particularly the effort to boost output of sugar cane. This film is made from a compilation of newsreel footage from the Cuban film institute and from Santiago Alvarez’s film Despegue a las 18.00 (Departure 18:00).

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/le-mystere-koumiko-m100042280/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/le-mystere-koumiko-m100042280/ A look inside the world of a young Japanese woman during the time of the Tokyo Olympiad (1964), from French New Wave Left Bank director Chris Marker.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/la-jetee-m100046342/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/la-jetee-m100046342/ A man is sent back and forth and in and out of time in an experiment that attempts to unravel the fate and the solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world during the aftermath of WW3. The experiment results in him getting caught up in a perpetual reminiscence of past events that are recreated on an airports viewing pier.

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