Bad news, Madison film fans. The UW Cinematheque has passed on the chance to show the original cut of French director Jacques Rivette’s “Out 1,” just because it’s over 12 hours long.
You laugh, but when the free on-campus film series showed Bela Tarr’s “Satantango,” which clocks in at a brisk 8 hours, 45 people showed up to see it. Perhaps more impressively, all but eight of them were still there when it was over.