Jacques Rivette (French: [?ak ?iv?t]; born 1 March 1928) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. His best-known films include Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse and the rare thirteen-hour Out 1.He was a member of the French New Wave, a group that included François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol, who all began their careers as film critics at Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s and gained international recognition as film directors in the 1960s (though Rivette perhaps had greater success and recognition as a filmmaker in the 1970s). As a film critic, he expressed his admiration for popular American cinema, especially genre directors such as Robert Aldrich, Otto Preminger, Alfred Hitchcock and Frank Tashlin. As a film director, he is known for using extended running times and loose narratives to explore the symbiosis and clash between reality and imagination. His films often combine the paranoid and conspiratorial crime stories of films by Louis Feuillade and Fritz Lang with the more carefree characters of the films of Jean Renoir and Howard Hawks.Film critic Raphaël Bassan has said that Rivette is "the only filmmaker of the ex-New Wave—along with Godard—who keeps making truly personal work on the level of film, while his colleagues from the early days have long rejoined the ranks of the qualité française [mainstream French films]". François Truffaut said that the French New Wave happened because of Rivette, and Marc Chevrie has called Rivette "vaguely legendary but largely unknown."
People who go to, say, one film every two weeks and tell themselves, "I will see the great films, but not the others, not the commercial movies," I think those people have no chance of really seeing cinema. I think that cinema is only accessible to those who accept that they must consume the "mainstream." On the other hand, the consumers of mainstream cinema who reject [Marguerite] Duras, [Robert] Bresson, [Jean-Marie] Straub or [Werner] Schroeter, are also people who refuse cinema. That said, it's a question of lifestyle: there are those whose daily schedule includes two hours to watch a movie, others who prefer to read, or listen to music.
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[on television] I have no relation with television. It's not a willed refusal. First, because I'm never at home; there too, it's a question of lifestyle. I have on occasion seen films on television at friends' homes, and since I'm not used to it, I've always had the impression that I was not watching the film, that I was seeing something else, a reflection . . . It was not a real connection! I agree with what [Jean] Eustache says, television is great for a second viewing, but not for discovering a film. It's a bit like seeing a film again on the editing table. And when I speak with people who've seen on television a film I saw earlier on the screen, I always have the impression that they haven't seen quite the same film, but maybe that's wrong.
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[on All About Eve (1950)] I still think that Eve is a failed Broadway piece and that it's not for nothing that he [Joseph L. Mankiewicz] left after the first scene of [Jean] Cocteau's Monstres sacrés (which by the way is not a good Cocteau film) because as I see it, the first scene is so powerful that one cannot write the ending or, if one does, one is doomed to churn out a scenario à la Bernstein. Either one drops the subject, or one ends up with something as bad as the third act of Monstres sacrés or the final scenes between [George] Sanders and Anne Baxter, of which I have a horrific memory. The truth is, I really liked Mankiewicz's films from the 50s, and when I saw some of them again, it was maybe in passionate circumstances ... I know that was the case for Eve.
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[on James Cameron] Cameron isn't evil, he's not an asshole like Spielberg. He wants to be the new De Mille. Unfortunately, he can't direct his way out of a paper bag.
His main sources of inspiration for L'amour fou (1969) were Les idoles (1968) (which starred the same actress, Bulle Ogier) and Pirandello's play 'To Find Oneself', of which he had attended a stage performance with Delphine Seyrig.
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
36 vues du Pic Saint Loup
2009
The Duchess of Langeais
2007
Histoire de Marie et Julien
2003
Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
2001
Secret défense
1998
Lumière et compagnie
1995
Documentary segment "Jacques Rivette/Paris"
Up, Down, Fragile
1995
Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les prisons
1994
Jeanne la Pucelle I - Les batailles
1994
Divertimento
1992
La belle noiseuse
1991
The Gang of Four
1989
Wuthering Heights
1985
Love on the Ground
1984
Paris s'en va
1981
Short
Merry-Go-Round
1981
Le Pont du Nord
1981
Noroît
1976
Duelle
1976
Essai sur l'agression
1974
Short
Naissance et mont de Prométhée
1974
Short
Celine and Julie Go Boating
1974
Out 1: Spectre
1972
Out 1, noli me tangere
1971
L'amour fou
1969
Cinéastes de notre temps
1966-1967
TV Series documentary 4 episodes
The Nun
1966
Paris Belongs to Us
1961
Le coup du berger
1956
Short
Le divertissement
1952
Le quadrille
1950
Short
Aux quatre coins
1949
Short
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
36 vues du Pic Saint Loup
2009
scenario
The Duchess of Langeais
2007
Histoire de Marie et Julien
2003
scenario
Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
2001
scenario
Secret défense
1998
scenario
Up, Down, Fragile
1995
scenario
Jeanne la Pucelle I - Les batailles
1994
Divertimento
1992
La belle noiseuse
1991
scenario
The Gang of Four
1989
scenario
Wuthering Heights
1985
scenario
Love on the Ground
1984
scenario
Paris s'en va
1981
Short scenario
Merry-Go-Round
1981
scenario
Le Pont du Nord
1981
scenario
Noroît
1976
scenario
Duelle
1976
scenario
Naissance et mont de Prométhée
1974
Short
Celine and Julie Go Boating
1974
scenario - as Rivette
Out 1: Spectre
1972
Out 1, noli me tangere
1971
scenario - uncredited
L'amour fou
1969
screenplay
The Nun
1966
Paris Belongs to Us
1961
scenario and dialogue
Le coup du berger
1956
Short scenario and dialogue
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Up, Down, Fragile
1995
M. Pierre (uncredited)
Jeanne la Pucelle I - Les batailles
1994
Le prêtre (uncredited)
La mémoire courte
1979
Marcel Jaucourt (Premier Flashback)
Paris Belongs to Us
1961
Romanian man at the party (uncredited)
Le coup du berger
1956
Short
Narrator (voice, uncredited)
Le château de verre
1950
Un passant (uncredited)
Cinematographer
Title
Year
Status
Character
La sonate à Kreutzer
1956
Une visite
1955
Short
Bérénice
1954
Short
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Cinéastes de notre temps
1967
TV Series documentary producer - 3 episodes
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Toute révolution est un coup de dés
1977
Short dedicatee
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Cinéphiles de notre temps
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself
Hitchcock et la nouvelle vague
2007
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Lumière et compagnie
1995
Documentary
Himself (segment "Sarah Moon (I)")
Cinéma, de notre temps
1994
TV Series documentary
Director
Cinéastes de notre temps
1964-1970
TV Series documentary
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Vadim Mister Cool
2016
TV Movie
Himself
Les Mystères de Paris: 'Out 1' de Jacques Rivette revisité
2015
Documentary
Himself
Gilles Jacob: CIitizen Cannes
2010
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Deux de la Vague
2010
Documentary
Himself
Cannes, 60 ans d'histoires
2007
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois
2004
Documentary
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2003
Turia Award
Turia Awards
Best Foreign Film
Va savoir (2001)
2001
Jury Special Prize
Valladolid International Film Festival
Va savoir (2001)
1993
Kinema Junpo Award
Kinema Junpo Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
La belle noiseuse (1991)
1992
Critics Award
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics
Best Film
La belle noiseuse (1991)
1992
Cinema Award
SACD Awards
1991
Grand Prize of the Jury
Cannes Film Festival
La belle noiseuse (1991)
1991
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention
Cannes Film Festival
La belle noiseuse (1991)
1991
Leopard of Honor
Locarno International Film Festival
For his contributions to film art.
1991
LAFCA Award
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Film
La belle noiseuse (1991)
1989
Honorable Mention
Berlin International Film Festival
La bande des quatre (1989)
1989
FIPRESCI Prize
Berlin International Film Festival
Competition
La bande des quatre (1989)
1974
Special Prize of the Jury
Locarno International Film Festival
Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris (1974)