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Jacques Rivette
Jacques Rivette was a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He made twenty-nine films, including L'Amour fou (1969), Out 1 (1971), Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974), and La Belle Noiseuse (1991). His work is noted for its improvisation, loose narratives, and lengthy running times.
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Born 1 March 1928 · Died 29 January 2016 · Q167475
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2026· 4 entries
“There were two people in poor health during filming, and there wasn’t any money at all”
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“broke down physically.... I had overestimated my own strength.”
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“It was as though they had guillotined us”
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: Love on the Ground: the intimate illusions of Jacques Rivette’s chateau mystery
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2016· 5 entries
The Guardian: Jacques Rivette obituary
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The Guardian: Jacques Rivette: a subtle master of slow-burn cinema
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The Guardian: French new wave director Jacques Rivette – a career in pictures
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The Guardian: Film director Jacques Rivette, stalwart of the French new wave, dies aged 87
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Died 2016-01-29.
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2009· 1 entry
Rivette made 36 vues du pic Saint-Loup; Jane Birkin starred as a woman who returns to her childhood circus troupe after her father dies, and begins a romance with a wealthy Italian drifter (Sergio Castellitto)
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2007· 1 entry
Rivette made The Duchess of Langeais, a faithful adaptation of Balzac's novel, and the second of Balzac's trilogy Histoire des treize, the introduction to which inspired Out 1
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2006· 1 entry
The Guardian: Jacques Rivette: slave to beauty
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2003· 1 entry
Said that Marie et Julien was based on a true story of a woman who committed suicide
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2002· 1 entry
Rivette published a book of scripts from three of his unmade films, including Marie et Julien
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film for La Belle Noiseuse (1991).
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1990· 1 entry
The director was the subject of a 1990 documentary, Jacques Rivette, the Night Watchman, directed by Claire Denis and Serge Daney.
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1980· 1 entry
Rivette decided to remake Out 1
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1978· 1 entry
But not completed until 1981, the film is a detective story about a missing sister and inheritance
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1969· 2 entries
Won Sutherland Trophy for L'amour fou (1969).
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The 252-minute film received positive reviews
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1962· 2 entries
Won Sutherland Trophy for Paris Belongs to Us (1962).
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Rivette suggested that Godard's wife, Anna Karina, would be perfect in the lead role
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1960· 1 entry
Appeared briefly with girlfriend Marilù Parolini in Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin's cinéma-vérité documentary, Chronique d'un été
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1958· 1 entry
Rohmer became editor-in-chief of Cahiers du cinéma
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1957· 1 entry
Italian neorealist director Roberto Rossellini announced that he wanted to produce a series of films about life in France
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1956· 1 entry
Was described as "too aloof and forbiddingly intellectual"
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1951· 1 entry
Bazin founded a film magazine, Cahiers du Cinéma, and hired most of the "Hitchcocko–Hawksians"; Rivette began writing for the magazine in February 1953
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1950· 1 entry
For the Gazette du Cinéma, founded by Rohmer with Bouchet as his assistant, the magazine ceased publication after five issues; Rivette said that being a critic was never his aim, but called it "a good exercise"
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1948· 1 entry
Shot his first short film, Aux Quatre Coins, in Rouen's Côte Sainte-Catherine section
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1944· 1 entry
“s lesser-known play than on the classical versions by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Top Secret pays tribute to Double Indemnity (1944), and biographer Mary Wiles saw influences from Hitchcock”
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1928· 1 entry
Born 1928-03-01.
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