Jacques Rivette's Out 1 is a 12 and a half hour film about a group of actors rehearsing a couple plays and their entanglement with a man obsessed with finding about a secret organization known only as "The 13" It is not an easy watch and in my many years as a cinephile one of the more difficult ones to complete. The film is divided into 8 parts, which makes it significantly easier to divide across several days. This would…

I had been putting off viewing this for nearly 5 years now because it would appear it's the last really great film I had yet to see. It didn't disappoint.

From the opening shot I knew I was going to be in for some incredible cinematography, which never let up for the entire running time. Visually, this is one of the most striking black and white films ever created. It is said about many films that every single shot is…