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THIS IS A SPECIAL, 2-PART SCREENING. TICKETS ARE NOT SOLD SEPARATELY. THE FIRST HALF OF THIS FILM SCREENS ON SATURDAY FEBRUARY 24 AT 4 PM.
To call this vast work “legendary” is to state the obvious or to understate the case; when the full-length OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE was recently screened at London's National Film Theatre, a debate ensued on just how many times it had been shown before, where and when. That some North Americans actually flew to London to see OUT 1 proves that it is indeed “the cinephile's holy grail” (Dennis Lim, The New York Times ) and this will definitely be your only chance - at least in Toronto! - to ever see this epic. “A movie equivalent of reading Proust or watching the Ring cycle. . . . In the annals of monumental cinema there are few objects more sacred than Mr. Rivette's 12 \'bd -hour OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE. . . Shot in the spring of 1970, this fabled colossus owes its stature not just to its immodest duration but also to its rarity. Commissioned and then rejected by French television, the film had its premiere on Sept. 9 and 10, 1971, at the Maison de la Culture in Le Havre before receding into obscurity. Hoping to salvage a version for theatrical release, Mr. Rivette, now 78, whittled down his eight-episode, 760-minute serial into a 255-minute alternate cut, which he called OUT 1: SPECTRE. SPECTRE has been difficult but not impossible to see. NOLI ME TANGERE, meanwhile, has become a true phantom film whose reputation rests on its unattainability. Its title (Latin for “touch me not” ) seems to predict its fate: an apt one, given that many of Mr. Rivette's films are predicated on obsessive and perhaps futile quests. . . . Among other things, OUT 1 concerns the parallel efforts of two theater companies to put on Aeschylus plays. Two oddball loners
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