Various Films

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6:30
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
Todd McCarthy (U.S., 2007)

In Person 2012 Novikoff Awardee Pierre Rissient

A career-launcher at Cannes and uncompromising advocate for favorite films and new directors, Pierre Rissient wields the kind of influence that lands an unknown talent such as the young Jane Campion a slot in the festival’s program. Passionate and charming, Rissient is beloved for his uncompromising attitude: “It is not enough to like a film. You must like it for the right reasons.” This casual, unabashedly affectionate documentary, filled with anecdotes from Abbas Kiarostami, Clint Eastwood, Olivier Assayas, and Quentin Tarantino, is an inspiring portrait of a unique character—and an illuminating peek at the inner workings of the international film scene. Michael Fox

Photographed by Gary Graver, McCarthy. (110 mins)

9:00
¡Vivan las antipo das!

Victor Kossakovsky (Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile, 2011)

This captivating documentary takes a common musing—What would you see if you dug a hole straight through the planet?—and pursues it to the ends of the earth, traveling to four pairs of global opposites: Argentina and China; Russia and Chile; Hawaii and Botswana; Spain and New Zealand. As the soundtrack spills from one location to the next, the marvelously mobile camera performs barrel rolls and backflips that turn the world upside down. Digital images are deftly spliced to bring opposing sides of the earth together, skylines mirrored across a common horizon: In Kossakovsky’s dizzy global vision, opposites attract. Juliet Clark

Photographed by Kossakovsky. (104 mins)

Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/sfiff_2012

Special Pricing
BAM/PFA members, San Francisco Film Society members, UC Berkeley students: $11
General admission: $13
Non-UC Berkeley students, seniors, and disabled persons: $12

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