"La Jetee" director Chris Marker dies at 91

If you've never seen Marker's 1962 short masterpiece you owe it to yourself to track it down and give it a look. Constructed almost entirely out of still shots in black and white it tells the story of a post-nuclear war Paris where scientists are experimenting with time travel in an effort to head off the apocalypse. Terry Gilliam's 1995 film "12 Monkeys" with Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis takes it basic concept and many of its particulars directly from "La Jetee" and scores of film makers have cited it as an influence. In 2010 Time magazine rated "La Jetee" the best time-travel film ever, and for good reason.

Still from La Jetee