BAMcinématek announces the world theatrical premiere run of Jacques Rivette‟s long-unseen, 13- hour masterpiece OUT 1: Noli me Tangere (1971) in a new restoration, Nov 4—19 “The cinephile‟s holy grail.”—Dennis Lim, The New York Times The Wall Street Journal is the title sponsor of BAM Rose Cinemas and BAMcinématek. Brooklyn, NY/Aug 11, 2015—BAMcinématek announces the world theatrical premiere run of Jacques Rivette’s long-unseen masterpiece OUT 1: Noli me Tangere (1971), screening in a new DCP restoration courtesy of Carlotta Films US from Wednesday, November 4 through Thursday, November 19. The restoration and reappearance of Jacques Rivette’s legendary magnum opus brings this long- impossible-to-see, 13-hour masterpiece to the big screen. Over eight episodes shot on 16mm, a cast of French New Wave icons improvise a spellbinding tale based on Honoré de Balzac’s History of the Thirteen, involving two theater troupes rehearsing Aeschylus, a female con artist (Juliet Berto) who seduces her victims, and a deaf-mute (until he speaks) busker (Jean-Pierre Léaud) on a quest to uncover a mysterious secret society. As the characters’ paths crisscross and the film’s puzzle-box structure—including one 45-minute take—grows ever more elaborate, a portrait of post- May 1968 Paris and its dashed dreams emerges. The result is a cinematic experience unlike any other, in which, as Rivette himself put it: ―the fiction swallows everything up and then self-destructs.‖ An unfinished version of OUT 1 premiered at the Maison de la Culture in Le Havre in 1971 before being edited down to the four-hour OUT 1: Spectre. The full version went unseen for two decades until it was restored and screened at the Rotterdam and Berlin Film Festivals in 1991, but disappeared again until the mid-2000s when it briefly toured Europe and screened several times in New York at the Museum of the Moving Image. BAMcinématek presented a run of Rivette masterwork Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) in June 2008 and the US theatrical premiere run of Le Pont du Nord (1981) in March 2013—both in new 35mm prints—and proudly presents the long-overdue theatrical release of OUT 1, launching a US tour. OUT 1’s eight episodes will be screened in pairs, five times each during the 16-day run, and the film can be seen in its entirety over the course of four weekdays or two weekend days. Full schedule, press screenings, and additional tour venues to be announced. A Carlotta Films US release | 1971 | 775min | In French with English subtitles | Color and B&W | 1.37:1 | New DCP restoration “A work so rarely seen that it has attained something like mythical status.”—A. O. Scott, The New York Times “Jacques Rivette‟s grandest experiment and most exciting adventure in filmmaking…the definitive film about 60s counterculture: its global and conspiratorial fantasies, its euphoric collective utopias, and its descent into solitude, madness, and dissolution”—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader “I chose „Out‟ as the opposite of the vogue word „in‟, which had caught on in France and which I thought was silly. The action of the film is rather like a serial which could continue through several episodes, so I gave it the number „One‟.”—Jacques Rivette “…has emerged from the mists of film history and legend to confirm its status as a monumental if cheeky culmination of the French New Wave…the quintessential Gallic movie of its era.”—Robert Koehler, Variety “A mind-blowing experience, but one which, instead of taking one „out of this world‟ as the expression has it, took one right smack into the world. Or into a world which one only dimly realised was there—always right there beneath the everyday world...the cinema will never be the same again, and nor will I.”—Richard Roud, The Guardian For press information, please contact Lisa Thomas at 718.724.8023 / [email protected] Hannah Thomas at 718.724.8002 / [email protected] About BAMcinématek The four-screen BAM Rose Cinemas (BRC) opened in 1998 to offer Brooklyn audiences alternative and independent films that might not play in the borough otherwise, making BAM the only performing arts center in the country with two mainstage theaters and a multiplex cinema. In July 1999, beginning with a series celebrating the work of Spike Lee, BAMcinématek was born as Brooklyn’s only daily, year-round repertory film program. BAMcinématek presents new and rarely seen contemporary films, classics, work by local artists, and festivals of films from around the world, often with special appearances by directors, actors, and other guests. BAMcinématek has not only presented major retrospectives by major filmmakers such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Manoel de Oliveira, Shohei Imamura, Vincente Minnelli (winning a National Film Critics’ Circle Award prize for the retrospective), Kaneto Shindo, Luchino Visconti, and William Friedkin, but it has also introduced New York audiences to contemporary artists such as Pedro Costa and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. In addition, BAMcinématek programmed the first US retrospectives of directors Arnaud Desplechin, Nicolas Winding Refn, Hong Sang-soo, and Andrzej Zulawski. From 2006 to 2008, BAMcinématek partnered with the Sundance Institute and in June 2009 launched BAMcinemaFest, an annual festival of new independent films and repertory favorites that The New Yorker called ―the city’s best independent film showcase;‖ the seventh annual BAMcinemaFest ran from June 17—28, 2015. Credits The Wall Street Journal is the title sponsor of BAM Rose Cinemas and BAMcinématek. Steinberg Screen at the BAM Harvey Theater is made possible by The Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust. Pepsi is the official beverage of BAM. Brooklyn Brewery is the preferred beer of BAMcinématek. BAM Rose Cinemas are named in recognition of a major gift in honor of Jonathan F.P. and Diana Calthorpe Rose. BAM Rose Cinemas would also like to acknowledge the generous support of The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, The Estate of Richard B. Fisher, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Brooklyn Delegation of the New York City Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Bloomberg, and Time Warner Inc. Additional support for BAMcinématek is provided by The Grodzins Fund, The Liman Foundation, the Julian Price Family Foundation, and Summit Rock Advisors. BAMcinématek is programmed by Nellie Killian and David Reilly. Additional programming by Gabriele Caroti, Jesse Trussell, and Ryan Werner. Special thanks to Calantha Mansfield/Carlotta Films US. General Information BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Rose Cinemas, and BAMcafé are located in the Peter Jay Sharp building at 30 Lafayette Avenue (between St Felix Street and Ashland Place) in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. BAM Harvey Theater is located two blocks from the main building at 651 Fulton Street (between Ashland and Rockwell Places). Both locations house Greenlight Bookstore at BAM kiosks. BAM Fisher, located at 321 Ashland Place, is the newest addition to the BAM campus and houses the Judith and Alan Fishman Space and Rita K. Hillman Studio. BAM Rose Cinemas is Brooklyn’s only movie house dedicated to first-run independent and foreign film and repertory programming. BAMcafé, operated by Great Performances, offers a bar menu and dinner entrées prior to BAM Howard Gilman Opera House evening performances. BAMcafé also features an eclectic mix of spoken word and live music for BAMcafé Live on Friday and Saturday nights with a bar menu available starting at 6pm. Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5, Q, B to Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center (2, 3, 4, 5 to Nevins St for Harvey Theater) D, N, R to Pacific Street; G to Fulton Street; C to Lafayette Avenue Train: Long Island Railroad to Atlantic Terminal – Barclays Center Bus: B25, B26, B41, B45, B52, B63, B67 all stop within three blocks of BAM Car: Commercial parking lots are located adjacent to BAM For ticket information, call BAM Ticket Services at 718.636.4100, or visit BAM.org. .