Rivette

This is a big weekend for film up in Seattle. NWFF will be screening Rivette l’Amour Fou, a film that has not (ever?) and most likely will not be seen again on the west coast any time soon. From the press release:

"Next Friday we open our 12 film series Lighter Than Air: The Films of Jacque Rivette with L’AMOUR FOU, a work of pure genius – undistributed in N. America and shown here in a 35mm print from France. It is a largely improvised, masterpiece that chronicles a married couple’s break-up during rehearsals for a production of Racine’s passion-filled tragedy Andromaque…

"Sprawling across nearly 13 hours, in eight episodes involving dozens of speaking roles and what seems like most of Paris’ arondissements, Jacques Rivette’s OUT 1 emerged earlier this year from the mists of film history and legend to confirm its status as a monumental culmination of the French New Wave. And although we’re screening the much shorter but just as rare OUT 1 SPECTRE (a mere 4 hours long), it’s still a momentous occasion in the history of Seattle film exhibition. We’re one of the only venues this side of the Rockies screening it! Save those extra eight hours for a round trip drive if need be, cause you’ll probably never see this film again, anywhere!

Did I happen to mention that most Rivette films are not available on DVD from any source! So if you were to come out to Northwest Film Forum just once this year, pretty much any film from this man who seems more in tune with cinema, theatre and magic than any other in history, is the worth the price of admission."

-Adam Sekuler

Don’t miss it!

schedule is HERE