San Francisco Cinematheque is pleased to co-present two films at this year’s San Francisco Jewish Film Festival:
The Yes Men Fix the World
Sunday, 26-July, 5:05pm
Castro Theatre
429 Castro Street (at Market Street)
Sunday, 2-August, 9:00pm
CineArts Palo Alto
3000 El Camino Real #6, Palo Alto
Wednesday, 5-August, 6:30pm
Roda Theatre
2015 Addison Street, Berkeley
Sunday, 9-August, 12:00pm
Smith Rafael Film Center
1118 Fourth Street (between A & B), San Rafael
Sure, exposing corporate greed and environmental degradation is serious business, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be hilarious going about it! Meet the Yes Men—eco-pranksters Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno—who pose as mild-mannered corporate executives, then brazenly infiltrate major media outlets and shareholder meetings, skewering their targets with spectacularly satirical stunts.
I Am von Höfler
Saturday, 8-August at 1:30pm
Roda Theatre
2015 Addison Street, Berkeley
Sunday, 9-August at 2:00pm
San Francisco JCC
3200 California Street (at Presidio Avenue), San Francisco
If you have never seen a Péter Forgács’s film, you are missing one of cinema’s most virtuosic, genre-bending practitioners. Immerse yourself in found-footage alchemist Forgács’s 15th film in the “Private Hungary” series—films artfully assembled from archival collections of home movies.