Out 1 of my mind?
By now I'm sure you think I'm crazy what with the Episode III and Pirates love. So, to further confirm your suspicions, I'm announcing that I will take the plunge and see Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Saturday June 9th and Sunday June 10th and hope to write out something each night so I can cull it together into a longer essay no later than Monday June 11th. I have a summer school essay to write that week (as well as some books to read) so the Rivette work may not be as grand as planned -- but it will happen. What's funny is this will be my first experience with a Rivette film. I missed PFA's retrospective last December when I was still in Seattle and I have not had time to track down a DVD of Celine & Julie, or any of his films, really, since my return to school.
Maybe I, too, think I'm a little out of my mind these days and feel the need to whole heartedly (and full bodiedly) commit myself to showing myself (and you?) that I still like foreign films as well as Ho'wood product. But hey, the last DVD I bought was a used copy of Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry
. That I haven't watched it yet in the days in between should make no difference: I still bought the sumbitch. Other recent purchases include- an early-release of a Korean DVD of The Host, which is somehow Region-1, and Ameoba somehow already has in stock (I think I'll be grabbing the "real" Region-1 disc later, but more on that development later);
- a used copy of Japon
off Amazon; need to write something more in-deapth about it AND Battle in Heaven;
- I've basically stolen my friend's boss' copy of Dead Man's Chest
- a ton of books for summer school: the coolest being J.L. Austin's How To Do Things With Words
- more than a few burritos;
- a new MacBook to replace my busted three-year-old Power Book G4;
- a pretty nifty all-in-one printer
- Hemp Milk (actually, that was a gift, but I would consider buying it for myself);
- and I'd like to buy some new clothes, but I need to save some money, too
[Keith says this one is fantastic.]
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Good luck with Out 1, I imagine that'll be an odd place to start with Rivette, maybe read some of his criticism first at least?
ReplyDeleteThe NWFF didn't play Out 1 (either version) when they ran their Rivette series, which I missed all of anyway because they only ran it on days I was working. I hear they did great business on Celine & Julie though.
I may get curious and watch Celine & Julie in the Cal library before then, sometime next week. But I also think it'd be a kind of great place to start. I can deal with it, I'm fairly certain. They're also playing L'amour fou, another super-long film, from 01968, and I may dive into that one as well. We shall see.
ReplyDelete"Out 1" is almost the polar opposite of "L'amour fou". I found the former full of humor (though little "laugh out loud" humor) -- even without English subtitles (only Italian ones -- which was weird). LAF, on the other hand, is as searingly, unrelentingly intense as a film can be -- like watching the marriage of friends break up right before your eyes, in real time.
ReplyDeleteWe started out our Rivette explorations with "Gang of Four", which was a pretty good introduction.
Thanks for the tip, Mr Kerpan. I don't know if I have it in me to watch a marriage break up in front of me for upwards of 250 minutes these days...
ReplyDeleteI've been peeking in on your blog every now and again and even though I don't always know the films you write about, I keep wishing I did know, that I had seen them. Someday. Hopefully I have more than a few more days left.
"L'amour fou" apparently is a distillation (and sublimation) of the Godard / Anna Karina crack-up. It is astounding work (Bulle Ogier is especially superb) -- but it is VERY draining. This filmhas a built-in Intermission -- and one really did need it.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many remarkable films from the past 100+ years of world cinema that I doubt that anyone could ever begin to be familiar with everything. One thing I would like to accomplish with my site is to let people know just how remarkably boundless the treasures of cinema are.
I started very late on Asian cinema, so I have to make up for lost time. Consequently, I tend to neglect other areas of cinema. But one can't watch everything. ;~}
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