Jacques Rivette

Jacques Rivette (born March 1, 1928) is a French film director. With Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette is considered to be the most experimental of the French New Wave directors. Like Godard, he had a background in film criticism, but he also loved popular American cinema, especially genre directors such as Robert Aldrich and Frank Tashlin. Rivette's stories progress in unconventional ways - often following multiple plot lines that can be romantic, mysterious, and comic all at once and employing extensive improvisation. As a result, his films are often extremely long ( the infamous Out 1 clocked in at 13 hrs, although a 4 1/2 hour cut was later produced.) and many of them are rarely seen. In 1950, Rivette joined the Cin-Club du Quartier Latin, and began to write film criticism for the Gazette du Cinema, a small film journal. During this time, he made his first short films, Aux Quatre Coins (1950), Le Quadrille (1950), and Le Divertissment (1952). In '52, Rivette began to write for Cahiers du Cinema with several other young critics who would form the core of the French New Wave: Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, and Claude Chabrol. Rivette championed American directors of the 40's and 50's, specifically the work of Howard Hawks, John Ford, Nicholas Ray, and Fritz Lang. In 1958, he began to work on his first feature using the borrowed equipment and short ends of film stock. He finished Paris Nous Apparteint two years later. Celine and Julie Go Boating is perhaps Rivette's most famous and best loved work. His other important films also include Out 1, L'Amour fou, Paris Nous Appartient, and La Belle Noiseuse.

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