5:30 Show Preceded by Short La Jetée (Chris Marker, France, 1962). Constructed from still photographs and frozen shots (belied by one luminous, life-affirming blink of the eye), Marker's science-fiction narrative explores memory, time-travel, and emotions in a post-scientific age. His hero is a helpless astronaut sent from post-World War III Paris in search of a radioactivity-free future. Through sheer will of emotion-the vivid memory of a childhood image-he turns back in time instead of forward, for a brief moment of ordinary love. (29 mins, English version, B&W, 35mm) (Everybody's Lady). In Ophuls's rarely seen 1934 film, we already find his stylistic signature-the mobile, graceful camera, panning, tracking and circling; the flashback-within-flashback narrative structure. But here there is the beautifully memorable screen presence of Isa Miranda as a film star who reaches the depth of personal despair as she hits the peak of her popularity. As the film opens, she has attempted suicide. Under ether on the operating table, her life unfolds for her (us) in a series of fragmented flashbacks, each "conceived as an autonomous, dazzling set piece..." (Dan Sallitt, LA Reader). Andrew Sarris writes: "(I)n the bravura directness of its acting (the film) is unique in an oeuvre characterized everywhere else by the subdued and subtle effects of the performances....Seen in retrospect, Isa Miranda's full-bodied and warm-blooded incarnation of (the actress) Gaby Doriot should have been hailed as one of the iconographical landmarks of the thirties..."