Presented in association with Los Angeles Filmforum, the
Film and Television Department of the French Consulate, Los Angeles and the Los
Angeles Film Critics Association’s “Films That Got Away” program, the Los Angeles
premiere of Jacques Rivette’s legendary 1971 12-and-a-half-hour masterwork
Out 1 takes place this Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29, at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer
Museum in Westwood, via a new 16mm print with electronically projected English
subtitles.

Jean-Pierre Léaud and Bulle Ogier star in this shaggy-dog
tale, seemingly about two theater groups rehearsing Aeschylus, that takes off
into a complex mystery loosely adapted from Balzac (with a nod to Lewis
Carroll). Hailed by Jonathan Rosenbaum as the definitive film about 1960s
counterculture, Rivette said famously of his work, “The fiction swallows
everything up, and then self-destructs.”

The first Saturday screening will begin at 2:00
pm with an introduction by Variety’s
Robert Koehler, followed by the first two episodes. The one-hour dinner break
will begin at approx. 5:30 pm. Episode 4 will end at approximately 10 p.m. The Sunday schedule follows the same rough pattern. The Billy Wilder Theater is on the courtyard
level of the Hammer Museum,
which is located at 10899 Wilshire Boulevard,
at the intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards. For more information,
phone (310) 206-8013 or click here.