Jacques Rivette

idg kael, she seems to be in disagreement with me most of the time, is she the popism of cinecrit or something lol

it's too bad we never got a PK review of this movie explaining why it "doesn't work" and filled with lots of snappy, colorful descriptions of the two lead actresses

i can't imagine finding 13 hours (?) to watch that!

People are finding 50+ hours to watch tripe like Game of Thrones and Mad Men, surely there will be time for this.

Out One is one of the greatest films ever made. As is Out One Spectre. As is Celine and Julie. I like the fact that these films are acts of faith, semi-secret fetish objects, open only to the true believers - it echoes the content of the films themselves, with all their codes, and secrets and, frequently, veiled occult/supernatural hints and whispers.

The DVD edition of Out One is perfectly serviceable - it's L'Amour Fou that is the Rivette REALLY crying out for restoration.

i'm kind of a rivette agnostic. i seem to be the only cinephile in existence who doesn't like "celine and julie,"

hi!

My heart soared when Masters of Cinema brought out a new DVD/Blu of Le Pont du Nord - a lesser Rivette, but still essential - and put 'Dedicated to all Rivettniks' in the liner notes.

As I understand it, Rivette now has dementia, so I was sad when this thread was revived.

Oh that's terrible. Just assumed he retired.

re: Amour Fou I have a terrible rip which - while I loved anyway - I don't care to come back to. Most of all I'd like to see it in the cinema.

I think I've probably mentioned already on this thread that I saw L'Amour Fou as part of the NFT's complete Rivette retrospective, and it was in truly pitiful condition - all the theatre stuff, shot on 16mm and blown up, looked especially poor, but the whole four hour plus print was ruined one way or another. It wasn't helped by the fact that this was an unsubtitled print that the NFT superimposed computer subtitles over in fairly random/haphazard fashion. Made me almost miss the days when the NFT did earphone commentaries.

lol at J.D.

i walked out of l'amour fou, too! like i said, i'm not not on rivette's wavelength. i guess the metafiction stuff is just too intellectual for me, or something. and his films are just too long for me to want to invest the time to give it another try. but i'm glad that out one will be available for the curious.

17 year old interview

http://sensesofcinema.com/2001/french-cinema-present-and-past/rivette-2/

That's a great interview. "Cameron isn’t evil, he’s not an asshole like Spielberg." hah. Very entertaining. I'd be keen to see this format with other directors.

that's the one where he praised showgirls, isn't it? i think it made verhoeven OK for snobby critics to like.

Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)

I’ve seen it twice and I like it a lot, but I prefer Showgirls (1995), one of the great American films of the last few years. It’s Verhoeven’s best American film and his most personal. In Starship Troopers, he uses various effects to help everything go down smoothly, but he’s totally exposed in Showgirls. It’s the American film that’s closest to his Dutch work. It has great sincerity, and the script is very honest, guileless. It’s so obvious that it was written by Verhoeven himself rather than Mr. Eszterhas, who is nothing. And that actress is amazing! Like every Verhoeven film, it’s very unpleasant: it’s about surviving in a world populated by assholes, and that’s his philosophy. Of all the recent American films that were set in Las Vegas, Showgirls was the only one that was real – take my word for it.I who have never set foot in the place!

That interview is mostly great but man, he sounds like a real asshole when talking about Titanic.

just a bit of misogyny, let's be cool

Rivette doesn't even own a TV <3

The titanic bit is fucking shit tho, not just cause of the sexism

yeah the titanic comments are nagl. "get off my yard!," yells rivette to kids.

It’s so obvious that it was written by Verhoeven himself rather than Mr. Eszterhas, who is nothing

politique des auteurs dies hard, i guess.

More than those of any other filmmaker, Buñuel’s films gain the most on re-viewing. Not only do they not wear thin, they become increasingly mysterious, stronger and more precise.

Rivette otm

http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/shop/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=rivette&product_id=603

Yeah. Reallyreallyreally want that package. But 85 pounds? That's a lot...

It is 16 discs!

Having already spunked a small fortune on the German Out 1 set, I'm actually more excited about the other films in this set, especially Duelle - "the Queen of the Sun (Bulle Ogier) and the Queen of the Night (Juliet Berto) search for a magical diamond in present-day Paris"

Time to ask for Santa's help.

I've been good..

This set is very much worth the 85 pounds!

lol it's 16 discs bcz it's both Blu-Ray and DVD

well yeah

rewatching Rivette: mostly "no, never" for me

that's your cred down the pan..

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well don't then!

junques rivette

Celine & Julie, Go to Hell

They do. Or maybe purgatory.

dunno why you'd bother continuing to seek this stuff out if you've already decided it's not for you, it's not like rivette is some ubiquitous inescapable cultural presence

i like SOME of his films alright. just not a master to me.

Not a master then

North American release of Out 1 on DVD/Blu-ray in November...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B014LHPGXI/

The Arrow Films (UK) box is at £74.99 until Sep. 8 and they seem to do free shipping even all the way to Canada.

Just a heads up for anyone else weighing their options- Arrow just announced today on Facebook that due to legal issues (probably to do with the US release) they've had to amend their release to code it to blu-ray Region B.

Just saw picture of Juliet Berto on BAM site, I think, meaning...

Out 1 is coming back

i am afraid

http://www.bam.org/film/2015/out-1-noli-me-tangere

Pourquoi?

bcz of my ambivalence about Rivette, nothing more

Out 1: Noli me Tangere is Rivette at his most Rivette-y, not the film to win round sceptics imho (try Out 1: Spectre instead, though you will miss out on Rohmer's turn as a Balzac scholar)

Oh god it's screening in Philly too but they're doing two 6 hour chunks on consecutive days, what the fuck?

one of them starts at 7pm, get the fuck outta here

Would like to see, but doubt I will have the time