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      Jacques Rivette

      Jacques Rivette

      Still: Merry-Go-Round
      Jacques RIVETTE (1928–2016, France) was a filmmaker and film critic, mostly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du cinéma. He worked as an assistant director with Jean Renoir and as an editor and cinematographer with Eric Rohmer and François Truffaut before making his own first feature, Paris nous appartient (1960). It was awarded the prestigious Sutherland Trophy and it made him one of the most uncompromising directors in the French New Wave overnight. Thirty years later, he won the Grand Prix at Cannes with the hypnotic masterpiece La belle noiseuse (1991). His work is noted for its improvisation, loose narratives and lengthy running times. Rivette’s career spanned over half a century, and he mastered almost every aspect of filmmaking.

      Filmography

      Aux quatre coins/At the Four Corners (1949, short), Le quadrille/The Quadrille (1950, short), Le divertissement/The Diversion (1952, short), Le coup du Berger/Fool’s Mate (1956, short), Paris nous appartient/Paris Belongs to Us (1960), La religieuse/The Nun (1965), Jean Renoir, le patron/Jean Renoir, The Master (1966, TV, 3 episodes), L'amour fou/Mad Love (1968), Out 1: Noli me tangere/Out 1 (1971), Out 1: Spectre (1973), Essai sur l’agression (1974, short), Naissance et mont de Prométhée (1974, short), Céline et Julie vont en bateau/Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), Duelle (1976), Noroît (1977), Paris s’en va/Paris Goes Away (1980, short), Merry-Go-Round (1981), Le pont du Nord (1981), L’amour par terre/Love on the Ground (1984), Hurlevent (1986), La bande des quatre/Gang of Four (1988), La belle noiseuse (1991), Jeanne la Pucelle/Joan the Maid (1993), Haut bas fragile/Up, Down, Fragile (1995), Lumière et compagnie/Lumière and Company (1995, segment: Jacques Rivette/Paris), Secret défense/Top Secret (1998), Va savoir/Who Knows? (2001), L’histoire de Marie et Julien/The Story of Marie and Julien (2003), Ne touchez pas la hache/The Duchess of Langeais (2007), 36 vues du Pic Saint-Loup/Around a Small Mountain (2009)

      More info: Wikipedia, Jacques Rivette

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