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| Jacques
Rivette |
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| Director
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| 1928 - |
| Born March 1,
Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France |
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Key
Production Country: France
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Key Genres: Drama,
Psychological Drama, Avant-garde/Experimental |
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Collaborators: Nicole Lubtchansky (Editor), Martine Marignac (Producer), William Lubtchansky (Cinematographer), Juliet Berto (Leading
Player/Screenwriter), Pascal Bonitzer (Screenwriter), Bulle Ogier (Leading Character Player/Screenwriter), Christine Laurent (Screenwriter), Pierre Baillot (Leading Character Player), Marcel Bozonnet (Leading Character Player), Emmanuel de Chauvigny
(Production Designer) |
| Recommended:
L'Amour fou (1968), Out 1: Spectre (1972), Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), La
Belle noiseuse (1991), Va savoir (2001) |
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Links:
[
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[
Jacques
Rivette Resources ] [
Senses
of Cinema Interview ] [ A
Jacques Rivette Filmography ] [
Rouge Article ]
[
Ginette
Vincendeau Profile ] [
Guardian Article (2006) ]
[
JacquesRivette.com ] [
Slant Magazine Article (2006) ] |
| Books:
[
Rivette:
Texts and Interviews ] [
IMDB ] [
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DVD's:
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Amazon
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1,000
Greatest Films:
L'Amour fou (1968), Out
1: Spectre (1972), Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), La Belle noiseuse (1991) |
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21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films:
The Duchess of
Langeais (2007) |
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"He
is hardly the most prolific director and the length of his
films has often counted against him. Nonetheless, his
clinical, self-reflexive essays in film form, the
sophisticated games he continues to play within the
"house of fiction," reveal him as a cinematic
purist whose commitment to the celluloid muse has hardly
diminished since the heady days of the 1950s." -
G.C.
Macnab (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers,
1991) |
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"The
informed filmgoer might not leap to support the contention
that Rivette is the most important filmmaker of the last
thirty-five years. After all, Rivette has made films
blatantly outside the conventional scheme... A time will
come when proper retrospective will prove his greatness, but
at the cost of so many younger and flashier reputations. No
one has done more to experiment with narrative and duration
than Rivette." -
David
Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)
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"French
film-maker whose movies are almost all unorthodox, beautiful
to watch, long, and alternately rewarding or infuriating.
Some film enthusiasts of my acquaintance would not go near a
Rivette film. Others regard him as the greatest of living
film-makers. Such polarization must at least denote a
director of some stature... The lesson is clear: take a
thinking cap and a pack of sandwiches - and be prepared for
a stimulating evening or a battle against sleep, according
to your disposition." -
David
Quinlan (Quinlan's Illustrated Guide to Film Directors, 1999) |
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"When
you see the films of certain young directors, you get
the impression that film history begins for them around
1980." - Jacques Rivette |
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