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Jacques Rivette
Jacques Rivette (March 1, 1928 - January 29, 2016) was a French film director. With Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette was one of the more experimental of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) directors. In common with many of his peers, he had a background in film criticism, where he expressed his admiration for popular American cinema, especially genre directors such as Robert Aldrich, Howard Hawks and Frank Tashlin. Rivette's films progress in unconventional ways—often following multiple plots that can be romantic, mysterious, and comic all at once and employing extensive improvisation—and are often extremely long.
Filmography
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Paris Belongs to Us
A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret g...
Lumière & Company
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lu...
The Glass Castle
Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she mus...
The Lovely Month of May
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion t...
Joan the Maid I: The Battles
Convinced only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Jeanne leaves her childhood home to...
Fool’s Mate
Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean. Claire meets her lover, Claude...
Up, Down, Fragile
A librarian, a gangster's ex-lover and a woman who has recovered from a coma spend an eye-opening summer in Par...
Merry-Go-Round
New Yorker Ben Phillips and mysterious Léo Hoffmann are strangers who are summoned to Paris by a mutual acquain...
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and cris...
Jacques Rivette, the Watchman
This film of interviews with the film director Jacques Rivette was produced in collaboration with Serge Daney,...
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
In the third part of a Cinéastes triptych on Jean Renoir, the director sits alone in a cinema analyzing scenes...
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir...
Short Memory
In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilita...
Jean Renoir parle de son art
Three-part interview with French film director Jean Renoir, conducted by French New Wave director Jacques Rivet...
Conversation entre Jean-Luc Godard et Jacques Rivette
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
The first of three documentaries by Rivette on Jean Renoir.
Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke
Documentary about filmmaker Shirley Clarke which originally aired on the French television series “Cinéastes de...
Festivals 66 Cinéma 67
Wanderings during the Cannes and Hyères 1966 festivals. Interviews with Louise de Vilmorin, Jean-Luc Godard, Ro...
Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited
New interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon; writer/director and Rivette collaborator Pascal Bonitzer; Rivette...
Die Geheimnisse von Paris
A twenty-minute short documentary produced in 1972 about “Out 1”, directed by Jacques Rivette, featuring Éric R...