Saturday / 4.14.12
The Library Lover: The films of Raúl Ruiz
6:00
(a.k.a. Three Sad Tigers). Ruiz’s debut feature adapts a popular play
involving a seedy older brother who prostitutes his younger sister.
Positioned in opposition to then-popular Mexican melodramas, the film
pointedly disregards their overly dramatic aesthetics and creates instead
a hyper-realist, Cassavettes-like style more concerned with everyday
realities. “I wanted the spectators to recognize themselves,” Ruiz noted.
Creating a Chilean New Wave from scratch—the mainly Argentine crew were
culled from documentary projects, the actors from “the theater of Noel
Coward”—Tres Tristes Tigres came from nowhere, and embodies the first
break of a film movement that was soon dammed by the military coup. Jason
Sanders
Written by Ruiz, based on a play by Alejandro Sieveking. Photographed by
Diego Bonacina. With Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román, Luis Alarcón, Delfina
Guszmán. (100 mins, In Spanish with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, From BFI
Collections, permission Valeria Sarmiento)
Theater Admission Prices
Single Feature
$5.50 BAM/PFA Members, UC Berkeley Students
$9.50 Adults (18-64)
$6.50 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and retirees
Non-UC Berkeley students
Senior citizens (65 & over)
Disabled persons
Youth (17 & under
Additional Feature $4.00 All Patrons
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Berkeley, CA 92027
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