Jacques Rivette’s blisteringly real 13-hour film finally gets released on home video Runtime ain’t nothing but a number, but it still has a big impact on how we think about cinema. We call anything ...

If there’s any truth to the old chestnut that great works of art teach you how to experience them, few films exemplify it quite so fully as Jacques Rivette‘s Out 1. Then again, when so few films are ...

A version of this essay was originally published by Philadelphia City Paper on December 15, 2006. There are movies that are hard to see, and then there are those so rare that their very being falls ...

Something else that’s changed in the last eight years: Binge-watching. Devoting 13 hours to a single work of art over the course of a few days is no longer the province of the “bug-eyed few,” as the ...