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Jacques Rivette |
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Director / Screenwriter |
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1928 - |
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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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Key
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) |
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Recommended:
L'Amour fou (1968)*, Out 1: noli me tangere (1971)*, Out 1: Spectre (1972)*, Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)*, La
Belle noiseuse (1991)*, Haut bas fragile (1995), Va savoir (2001) |
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Worth a Look: Paris
Belongs to Us (1960), La Religieuse (1966), Duelle (1976), Noroit
(1976), Le Pont du Nord (1981), Gang of Four (1988), Jeanne la Pucelle I
(1994), Jeanne la Pucelle II (1994), The Duchess of Langeais (2007) |
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Approach with Caution:
Wuthering Heights (1985), Histoire de Marie et Julien (2003) |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
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Links:
[
Amazon
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[
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) ]
[
Senses of Cinema
(1950 article by Rivette) ] |
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Books:
[
Rivette:
Texts and Interviews ] |
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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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Please
note that the rating given for this director (see top-right) is based
only on the films we have seen (listed above). Films by this director
that we haven't seen include Le Coup du berger (1956), Love on the
Ground (1984), Secret Defense (1997) and Around a Small Mountain (2009). |
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"Jacques
Rivette is one of the most highly regarded directors of the
French New Wave. Throughout his career, he has offered a
variety of complex experiences, from the epic Out 1
(1971) to the delicate La belle noiseuse (1991).
Admittedly, such movies require a degree of intellectual
commitment from spectators that is at odds with conventional
viewing habits. Yet despite, or perhaps because of, the
difficult nature of Rivette's work, the rewards are often
all the greater... Rivette remains a key figure of the
French New Wave, and the creator of some of cinema's most
challenging films."
-
Guy
Crucianelli, 501 Movie Directors: A Comprehensive Guide to
the Greatest Filmmakers |
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Top 250 Directors |
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Survey
of Filmmakers: Top 25 Directors (2005 poll by The Film Journal) |
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501 Movie Directors: A
Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers |
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See Also |
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Chantal
Akerman |
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Robert
Bresson |
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Luis
Buñuel |
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Carl
Dreyer |
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Abbas
Kiarostami |
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Jean-Luc
Godard |
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Mohsen
Makhmalbaf |
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Louis
Malle |
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Maurice
Pialat |
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Eric
Rohmer |
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Roberto
Rossellini |
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Agnès
Varda |
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Jacques Rivette's Favourites |
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L'Atalante (1934)
Jean Vigo,
Day of Wrath (1943)
Carl Dreyer,
Ganga (1959) Rajen Tarafder, Germany, Year Zero (1947)
Roberto Rossellini,
Ivan the Terrible, Parts 1 and 2 (1944/46)
Sergei Eisenstein,
The Life of Oharu (1952)
Kenji Mizoguchi,
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Charles Chaplin,
Mr. Arkadin (1955)
Orson Welles,
Sunrise (1927)
F.W. Murnau,
True Heart Susie (1919)
D.W. Griffith.
Source: Sight & Sound (1962) |
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