Jacques Rivette

Those films were restored for the Rivette box set that came out last year, I'm sure mubi will be using the same source material

Oh, I think I missed that part of the discussion: I wasn't aware of the contents of the Arrow box beyond the release of Out 1.

Arrow is releasing Duelle, Noroît, and Merry-Go-Round in the US in May and all 3 are now streaming on Amazon Prime.
https://www.facebook.com/ArrowAcademy/photos/a.805295076280491.1073741828.804231479720184/1039249329551730/?type=3&permPage=1

The Story of Marie and Julien -- yes?

Yes. Haven't seen in a while but the leads work well off each other and there's a real sense of romantic loss in Jerzy R's performance, if I recall. I may rewatch tonight now that you've mentioned it.

3-film blu is out

http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/the-jacques-rivette-collection

Been out in the UK for well over a year

Reminds me, just got an email from Anthology mentioning a film directed by Juliet Berto.

It's an Eduardo de Gregorio box set that's really needed

“It’s the Jacques Rivette movie for people who can’t stand Jacques Rivette movies—and yet no one else could’ve made it.”

that's me, i guess

https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/11/24/la-belle-noiseuse-finds-jacques-rivette-marrying-the-ordinary-and-the-cosmic/

Great that the writer mentioned Quince Tree Sun at the end there - as I was thinking about it as I read it.

i love the QTS so much

I heard a great story about that director, wonder if I’ve posted it already

I'd like to hear a story about Victor Erice.

So he was at the Walter Reade Theater for a festival of his films and told the audience that one of the reasons he cast Ana Torrent in The Spirit of the Beehive is that when he asked her “Do you know who Dr. Frankenstein is?” she replied “Yes I do, but we haven’t been introduced.”

:D

Watched the New Yorker Films (!) DVD of La Belle Noiseuse last weekend and hey, I still don't much like Rivette! At least Michel Piccoli's presence meant I made it through in 2 days. I did like Emmanuelle Beart's insouciance in the second half.

WTF Out 1 (and bunch of other Rivettes) is free to watch on Amazon Prime.

On closer inspection Out 1 (and Le pont du nord) is on a Fandor channel you can do a trial of for free and then subscribe to through Amazon. But there are other ones on Prime.

anyone want to browbeat me into seeing Gang of Four on 35mm tonight?

https://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-gang-of-four/

https://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com/2009/03/gang-of-four.html

actually, looking closely it seems to be on DCP... there's no US disc anyhoo.

The Nun is getting a minor re-release over here and I've never seen it. Curious to see what Karina does with it.

There is a North American DVD of Gang of Four. I've had it for 15+ years and I'm shocked to find that it's still available:

https://www.amazon.com/Gang-of-Four/dp/B00005TNF8/

And it's great! See it.

The Nun is his most "conventional" feature and not among my favourites, but still very much worth watching.

In the UK you can currently buy Gang of Four, Wuthering Heights and Love on the Ground on DVD for £3 each.

Gang of Four is indeed very great, but is so quintessentially Rivettian that I can't imagine it pleasing a Rivette sceptic like the good Doctor M.

Agree w/ you about The Nun - a Rivette adaptation of Diderot text starring Anna Karina sounds like the best thing ever, but the actual film is a bit lumpy and dull.

Gang of Four is really good, love that film.

i went to some silent shorts instead

On brand

presumably i will run across either the Go4 disc or a 35mm screening someday

Lots of Rivette films have their double or pair, and the film that I would pair w/ Gang of Four - as its echo inverse etc - is L'amour Fou, the film Rivette made after the disaster of The Nun, also w/ Bulle Ogier and (as I habitually say on this thread) in desperate need of a proper restoration. When I first got into Rivette, investigated his entry in Thomson's Biographical Dictionary, borrowed Jonathan Rosenbaum's scarce BFI mongraph on JR from the old BFI library, I seriously thought I would probably never get to see the complete Out One in my lifetime, and now it is easy to see in high definition, everywhere. So, one day!

"The Nun" is a favorite of mine but it's still a pretty big left turn after "Paris nous appartient", for me, and even though stagey feels the least Rivette of all his films.

All the sapphic habit-diving in the last third of The Nun is borderline risible, but I liked it more than is typical with me and JR. The story of its banning is at least as compelling. (Mme de Gaulle did it)

exciting opportunity to watch out 1 in london

https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2019/jacques-rivette-out-1

I'm guessing that this is a screening of the digital version that Arrow and others have released on Blu-Ray in the last few years, possibly timed to coincide w/ a new standalone Out 1 set w/ both versions of the film:

https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/out-1-blu-ray/FCD1886

Still no sign of L'Amour Fou though!

Have a chance to see Duelle for free at a newly opening theater in Seattle in a few weeks.

so watched the full out 1 over the weekend, and still unsure how I feel about it. contrary to what most people’s experience seems to be, I found the extended theatre exercises to be the most captivating; observing the evolutions and magnetism of people, pushing and pulling, growing and deflating — and the moments where what little we learn in the external sequences seem to infect these communities.

i was never bored but frequently frustrated, a feeling that only grew as i realised the whole thing was an improvisational exercise and the total absence of a defined reality, just the world as the individual actors understand it. the sense of lost promise is so strong and I left the cinema on the verge of anger, but living more and more with what it is, am only finding it more fascinating. been thinking of it as a komboloi, something to hold with you, thread through your hands, feel individual moments it as you go about your life, idk looking forward to growing with it

is there an obvious movie to start with this guy? out 1 seems daunting.

just realized his photo is featured a couple times in The Image Book

His most popular is Celine et Julie, after which you can pick others based on whether you like that or not.

Paris Belongs To Us is essential Nouvelle Vague, and shorter than usual for him.

Yeah, Celine et Julie or perhaps La Belle Noiseuse. That one isn't that typical, but it's very easy to watch. Though a lot of the popularity has to do with the very large amounts of nudity in it, I suspect.

Paris Belongs to Us is really mysterious and beautiful and is amazingly confident for a first feature-length film

haven’t seen any other Rivette films yet besides his first and now his last, Around a Small Mountain. it’s interesting that his last film was so straightforward. wondering about the arc in between

more like a rollercoaster

a frequently quiet and/or tedious one

people who have nothing to do and nowhere to go

Finally saw La Belle Noiseuse and found it totally enthralling, and singular and mature among his films I've seen. It avoids most of the pitfalls I half-expected it to fall into when I first heard about it years ago. No clumsy eroticism; It takes the work seriously without veering off into exaggerated or doofy paens to Art. I don't know if you could even call their relationship a battle of wills. They could be two co-workers butting heads over the design of a building or machine. Loved it.

A recent YouTube upload - a subtitled print of L'amour Fou (seemingly sourced from a video) - the image quality might be tough to take over four hours:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLXKgDCSuJ0

It's my favourite of his!

It's great, except for the director wearing his sunglasses under his chin for most of the duration.

this (by jacques rivette) is the funniest piece of film criticism ever written, in that it somehow massively insults three completely unrelated directors and makes jacques demy look like a nerd pic.twitter.com/Xsu6LFtWZX

— axaxaxas lmaö (@demarionunn) December 29, 2021

from: https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2001/jacques-rivette/rivette-2/

Here's your Rivette news for Spring 2023...

-So far this year, Cohen has released four films on Blu-ray: L'Amour par Terre, La Bande des Qautre, Haut Bas Fragile, and Secret Defense.

-The "version longue" of Va Savoir (3h 45m) was restored in 2021 and has surfaced on the French streaming service UniversCine. A title card about the restoration describes it as the "first version" of the film. You can watch it if you have a VPN and 1 Euro to spare for a month's trial. No subtitles though.

-L'Amour Fou has been restored and is being shown at Cannes. Info and clip here: https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/l-amour-fou/. Hopefully Blu-ray to follow eventually!

MUBI's got the Joan films. Watch'em, right?