\\Communique Agosto// - Part 3: at Harvard

NOTES
Gilles Deleuze, cited in B. Kite, "Jacques Rivette and the Other Place," Cinema Scope, no. 30 (Spring 2007): p. 17. [The Deleuze piece which is quoted and the cited article are both available on Order of the Exile]

Rivette in Hélène Frappat, Jacques Rivette, secret compris (Paris: Cahiers du cinéma, 2001), p. 151. Rivette is specifically referring to his Les Filles du feu project.

"Noli me tangere" is of course the phrase that Christ is recorded in the gospels as saying, when after his Resurrection, he appeared to Marie Magdalene. The scene is a well-known iconographic theme in Western painting.

André S. Labarthe points out that this refusal dates already from the film before, Rivette's documentary on Jean Renoir: Jean Renoir, le paton.

Labarthe quoted in Frappat, p. 135.

Pascal Bonitzer quoted in Frappat, p. 169.

Jonathan Rosenbaum's edited volume from 1971 remains equally indispensable. See: Jonathan Rosenbaum, edited and with an introduction by, Jacques Rivette: Texts and Interviews, translated by Amy Gateff and Tom Milne (London: BFI, 1977). [The entire text is available on the site]

Hélène Frappat, p. 53.

I note too that Rivette seems to have a fondness for libraries and librarians: the character of Julie in Céline and Julie, Ida in Up, Down, Fragile, and in Va savoir, the Arsenal Library provides a wonderful set.

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