Jacques Rivette and TRP

[John Bailey]

Have you seen this JM? It sounds fascinating. Hadn't heard of it until
now but for some reason the write-up reminded me of Celine et Julie
vont au Bateau which is both boring and amazingly memorable, and lo
and behold it turns out Rivette directed that too.

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 1:15 AM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
> With the forthcoming DVD release of Jacques Rivette's incomparable
> postmodern monuemnt Out 1, the following piece may be of interest to
> Pynchonians. Jonathan Rosenbaum brings up a direct link between two central
> works of early 1970s bohemian paranoia
>
> http://deeperintomovies.net/journal/archives/9070
>
> Rosenbaum: “The coded messages Leaud intercepts are significantly different
> in the two films.” Different how? Also: “Much as Thomas Pynchon in Gravity’s
> Rainbow bears witness to mid-century paranoia by turning imaginary plots
> into real ones and vice versa, Rivette has a chilling way of both suggesting
> explanations and dispersing them in this monumental, maddening epic.”
>
> Come for Pynchon, stay for Balzac, Lewis Carroll, Rohmer, Goddard, Paris
> 1968, and Jacques Rivette his own brilliant, confounding yet delightful
> self.
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