Jacques Rivette

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

dOubt 1: liSpector

Oops you already made that joke in your own name :/ dunno what I was thinking.

screening # 52

Jacques Rivette:
Out1

1st half – Saturday 28 November, 09:00 - 17:15
2nd half – Sunday 29 November, 09:30 - 17:15
Prince Charles Cinema

box office

We are delighted to present in collaboration with The Badlands Collective a very rare and wonderful opportunity to see Jacques Rivette’s longest work – Out1 – a magnum opus if ever there was one, running at 773 minutes - just under 13 hours.

Out1 has been very rarely screened because there was no English subtitled copy made and so any screening had to be done with live subtitling – daunting and, of course, prohibitively expensive for most venues.

Rivette made a cut down version for film festivals, but the full version is what cinephiles know about, have read about, and want to have seen. With this new restoration and the fresh subtitling that longing can at last be satisfied.

But this will not be a daunting experience, because Out1 is a delightful, playful, story-filled adventure – teaming with richly drawn characters and ticklish eccentricity. Taking a Balzac pot-boiler about a secret society (Histoires de treize - Stories of the Thirteen) and Lewis Caroll’s The Hunting of the Snark as a large scale map, Rivette and his cast fill in the landscape with infinite variety

Also coming to Los Angeles, Nov 14-15.

http://www.cinefamily.org/films/la-collectionneuse/

Out 1 fortnight has arrived in NY.... Bluray/DVD next year.

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-jacques-rivettes-out-1

http://www.kinolorber.com/video.php?id=2145

Or this year if you're in a Region 2 country

I watched Out 1 & 2 last night ... does it get better? I would like to see a condensed version stripped of the tedious theater people and featuring solely the machinations of Jean-Pierre Leaud and Juliet Berto.

Well there is the four hour cut as an option that would cut that down somewhat, its what I have (as a torrent)

should i watch out if i found celine and julie a bit uneventful?

Virginia Plain, yes, after the first two parts the theatre stuff drops away and the conspiracy stuff begins to take over - Rivette said this was kind of a deliberate strategy on his part, to have stories taken over by other stories.

Xyzzz, the Spectre version really is very different from the long version - the 4 hour cut has almost none of the theatre stuff and IIRC the final shot of Spectre comes about three hours into the long version. You don't get Eric Rohmer as a Balzac scholar in Spectre, either.

thinking i will avoid this entirely

One of the nice things about the NFT screening of Out 1 (Thurs 27th April to Sat 29th April 2006) was that they produced original screening notes for each episode. I still have them, and this is the quote from Rivette that I was alluding to (and mangling) earlier -

"We start off with the reportage - it's phoney, of course, set up, but presented more of less as reportgage - with the fiction slipping in very stealthily at first, but then beginning to proliferate until it swallows everything up and finally auto-destructs." I would say that I thought Michel Lonsdale was absolutely extraordinary in this movie, and his performance helped me get through the 'difficult' opening episodes.

Apologies if this link has already been posted - further details of the Region 2 set. Not totally sold on the design they've gone with - def doesn't do much to undermine those accusations of tweeness leveled esp at Celine & Julie - but as an artifact it is a great coup for Arrow, following their landmark Borowczyk set.

http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/the-jacques-rivette-collection-out-1-noli-me-tangere-out-1-spectre-duelle-une-quarantaine-noroit-merry-go-round/

"Rivette's mise-en-scène is often crushingly one-note"

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/out-1-2015

Hilarious review. He mentions Rohmer's appearance but the Nouvelle Vague as a movement seems to have been v literature based and Out 1 does seem like the ultimate film in that regard. Has this person ever read a modern novel? This project - although based around a thetrical troupe - is v early late 19th/early 20th century narrative novel based. The Leaud/Berto - then slippage of characters coming in-and-out, as a set-up, is really appealing to me. The look at how the passage of almost uncontrolled time does mirror a particular reading experience (the way people slip and coming back hundreds of pages later). You could say "but its a film", but all of these movements in painting, poetry, novels and, art and film really feed off one another, and you can't see them in isolation. I had to laugh when he says the plot might not be solved. When were you expecting this?

Morbs - this is clearly not for you. Its gonna be ok man.

Even that quote you pulled out..."one-note" is so off as a criticism of this. It implies a master director that controlled your experience, something very precisely scuplted and verging on the oppressive. And watching Out 1 (even in the four hour cut) feels like a really organic interaction and collaboration between cast and director on the shape and of what that might be - so it has this rough and ready feel of an exploration (which is what he says) and yet its also a potential way of working that is only unsustainable because works have to be perhaps funded and produced in ways that are contrary to how this was made.

Also its one of the few films where you can really get a flavour of the time: there are a lot of films that centre around paranoia but this seems like one of the few that trasmit the psychic torment of what paranoia might be.

I've read very few modern novels for related reasons.

I figure the NY public library will have the video release in a few months if I ever feel the need. Also I feel Virginia Plain has suffered on behalf of me.

Also on Slant, Mich(a)el Lonsdale interview!

Improvisation was easy with Bulle Ogier because she can improvise very easily, but it was more difficult with Bernadette Lafont because she didn't know what to say. [laughs] So we'd say to her, “Say something.” She couldn't! When she acts, you know, she's wonderful. She was, now she's gone. But she was completely lost and couldn't say anything. That's why her part isn't very long in the film.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/interview-michael-lonsdale

Out 1 is now streaming on Fandor.

Interview with Bulle Ogier in November's "Cahiers du Cinéma" where she reveals the origin of OUT 1. While in NYC with Rivette to present "L'Amour Fou" at a festival they (and Bertolucci!) became hooked on "Get Smart" reruns. They especially liked Barbara Feldon. Afterwards Rivette was stuck on doing either a TV series or a veeeeery long film with a good guys vs bad guys angle.

That's a great story! And you can totally see it in Out 1. Rivette uses genre brilliantly.

v gd tick!

that's easy for YOU to say

On the contrary: cinema is hard work.

It's a lie told 25 times a second.

The only chance for me to see Out 1 in Seattle is to go to the marathon screening.

off to a 35mm screening of Paris Belongs to Us v shortly

^ Liked it, even the explicit turn toward Body Snatchers-style dread near the end. Funny JLG cameo.

I saw this for the first time the other week; it's startling how many of Rivette's preoccupations (endless rehearsal, artistic process in tension with the expectation of a final saleable product, paranoia as a way of projecting order onto the flow of experience, "Body Snatchers-style dread" as part of the way ungraspable historical forces permeate everyday life) seem to have been in place from the first.

https://www.criterion.com/films/27724-paris-belongs-to-us

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/movies/jacques-rivette-french-director-dies.html?_r=0

RIP

:-(

Really wonderful that "Out 1" came out again last year.

That's a massive loss (though given the rumors that he'd been in decline for the last several years, I'm glad he's not suffering). I finally saw Celine and Julie Go Boating this past week, and it was one of the most joyful experiences with film I've had in a long time.

Rest In Peace

"When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground."

RIP (reading the notes in the new Rivette box set, it did sound as if his last years were fairly miserable, so I'm glad he's no longer suffering)

Will be having a memorial viewing of Duelle this weekend

Am watching "Paris s'en va" ( the alternate "Pont du Nord") this morning.

La Belle Noiseuse is one of my favorite movies about art. RIP.

RIP, he's 2/2 for movies I've seen/movies I think are incredible, looking forward to adding to both columns

i'll keep trying, Monsieur.

RIP

slightly guiltily my first response just now was to be psyched at the increased probability of actually getting some screenings here

links

http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.de/2016/01/the-film-plays-thing-rip-jacques.html

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-jacques-rivette-1928-2016

http://www.jacques-rivette.com/