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May 7, 2018 · Pierre Rissient, an important behind-the-scenes figure at the Cannes Film Festival and, as a result, an influential shaper of cinematic trends and directors’ careers for half a century, died...
May 6, 2018 · Pierre Rissient, France’s iconoclastic “man of cinema,” who was best known for discovering and promoting directors he believed in at film festivals around the world but whose eclectic...
May 6, 2018 · P ierre Rissient, critic, filmmaker, producer, distributor, publicist, and legendary talent scout for Cannes and other festivals, passed away on Saturday night at the age of eighty-one. Lifelong friend and fellow director Bertrand Tavernier has shared the news, which he heard from Rissient’s wife, Yung Hee. “It is not enough to love a film.
May 6, 2018 · Pierre Rissient, Warrior of Cinema and Advocate of Major Filmmakers Worldwide, Dies at 81. An advocate of Clint Eastwood, Jane Campion, Quentin Tarantino, and many others, Rissient was a living...
May 6, 2018 · Pierre Rissient, the influential, behind-the-scenes mover, shaker and fixer in the French cinema world and the Cannes Film Festival, has died. He was 81.
May 6, 2018 · Pierre Rissient, a French producer, publicist and formerly an influential festival selector, has died. He was 81. His death was announced (in French) by the Institut Lumiere and French director...
May 7, 2018 · Rissient died Saturday in Paris, just days before the start of Cannes, where he was scheduled to unveil a restoration of the 1982 drama “Cinq et la peau,” which debuted 36 years earlier...
