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Saturday, Feb 2, 2013
6 pm
Études sur Paris
Patrick Ellis is a doctoral student in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley. Pianist Judith Rosenberg performs regularly at BAM/PFA and at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum.
Documentarian, boulevardier, artistic paragon to Jean Cocteau and Man Ray: André Sauvage, oft the cinéaste oublié of French interwar cinema, returns to our screen in this new restoration. Part inventory, part cartography, Études sur Paris is a city-symphonic Baedeker of Paris, as interested in the monumental (Notre Dame) as the derelict (Porte de Bicêtre), in subterranean light effects as the shadows cast by a late August sun.
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