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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 4½ hour cut was later produced) and many of them are rarely seen. Philosophically, improvisation often focuses on bringing ones personal awareness into the moment, and on developing a profound understanding for the action one is doing. ... Out 1 is a film directed by Jacques Rivette, one of the major filmmakers of the French New Wave. ...

Biography

Jacques Rivette was born in Rouen. In 1950, Rivette joined the Ciné-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 1952, Rivette began to write for Cahiers du cinéma with several other young critics who would form the core of the French New Wave: Éric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, and Luc Moullet. Rivette championed American directors of the 1940s and 1950s, specifically the work of Howard Hawks, John Ford, Nicholas Ray, and Fritz Lang. In 1958, he began to work on his first feature using borrowed equipment and short ends of film stock. He finished Paris nous appartient two years later. Rouen Cathedral The entrance to Rouen Cathedral Abbey church of Saint-Ouen, (chevet) in Rouen Rouen, medieval house Rouen (pronounced in French, sometimes also ) is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France on the River Seine, and presently the capital of the Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy) région. ... Cahiers du cinéma is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Lo Duca. ... François Truffauts New Wave film Jules et Jim The New Wave (French: la Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced (in part) by Italian Neorealism. ... Éric Rohmer (born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer, April 4, 1920, Nancy, France) is a French film director and screenwriter. ... Jean-Luc Godard (photograph by David Horvitz) Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930 in Paris) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave. Born in Paris to Franco-Swiss parents, he was educated in Nyon, later studying at... François Truffaut. ... Claude Chabrol (born June 24, 1930) is a French movie director and has become well-known in the 40 years since his first film, Le Beau Serge, for his chilling tales of murder, including Le Boucher. ... Luc Moullet (born 14 October 1937 in Paris) is a French film critic and filmmaker, and a member of the Nouvelle Vague or French New Wave. ... Howard Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and writer of the classic Hollywood era. ... John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director famous for westerns such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such classic 20th century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath. ... Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle) (August 7, 1911–June 16, 1979) was an American film director. ... Friedrich Anton Christian Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from Germanys school of expressionism. ...

Céline et Julie vont en bateau (Céline and Julie Go Boating / Céline and Julie Lose Their Minds) is perhaps Rivette's most famous and best loved work. His other important films include Out 1, L'Amour fou, Paris nous appartient, and La Belle noiseuse. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Céline et Julie vont en bateau) is a 1974 movie directed by Jacques Rivette. ... La Belle noiseuse is a 1991 French-language film directed by Jacques Rivette. ...

Filmography

Feature films

Along with Out 1, La Belle noiseuse, and Va Savoir, Rivette also at one point cut alternate versions of L'Amour fou and L'Amour par terre. Duelle and Noroît were two episodes from an intended four part series "Scenes from a Parallel Life" and Histoire de Marie et Julien was later based off of an unfilmed episode. Due to the rare nature of Rivette's works, many DVDs (such as the Region 1 Facets release of Jeanne la pucelle) are from edited or otherwise incomplete versions of his films.

• Paris nous appartient (Paris Belongs to Us) (1960; 140 minutes)
• La Religieuse (The Nun) (1965; 140 minutes)
• L'Amour fou (Mad Love) (1968; 255 minutes)
• Out 1 (Out 1: Noli me tangere/Out 1: Don't Touch Me) (1971; 750 minutes)
  • Out 1: Spectre (1972; 260 minutes) - used alternate takes
• Céline et Julie vont en bateau (Céline and Julie Go Boating: Phantom Ladies Over Paris) (1974; 192 minutes)
• Duelle (1976; 121 minutes)
• Noroît (Nor'wester) (1976; 145 minutes)
• Merry-Go-Round (1978; 157 minutes)
• Le Pont du Nord (1981; 131 minutes)
• L’Amour par terre (Love on the Ground) (1984; 127 minutes)
• Hurlevent (from Wuthering Heights) (1985; 130 minutes)
• La Bande des quatre (The Gang of Four) (1988; 140 minutes)
• La Belle noiseuse (The Beautiful Nuisance) (1991; 240 minutes)
  • Divertimento (1991; 120 minutes) - used alternate takes
• Jeanne la pucelle: 1. Les batailles (Joan the Maiden, Part 1: The Battles) (1994; 160 minutes)
• Jeanne la pucelle: 2. Les prisons (Joan the Maiden, Part 2: The Prisons) (1994; 176 minutes)
• Haut/bas/fragile (Up/Down/Fragile) (1995; 169 minutes)
• Secret défense (1998; 173 minutes)
• Va savoir (Who Knows?) (2001; 154 minutes)
  • Va savoir+ (2002; 225 minutes) - preferred cut, from alternate takes
• Histoire de Marie et Julien (Story of Marie and Julien) (2003; 151 minutes)
• Ne touchez pas la hache (Touch Not the Axe) (2007)

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Short films

• Aux Quatre Coins (At the Four Corners, 1949)
• Le Quadrille (The Quadrille, 1950)
• Le Divertissement (Entertainment / The Diversion, 1952)
• Le Coup du berger (Fool's Mate, 1956)
• Paris s'en va (Paris Goes Away, 1980)
• Une aventure de Ninon (One of Ninon's Adventures, 1995; a very short work made for the omnibus film Lumière et compagnie)

Lumière and Company (1996) was a collaboration between several film directors in which each made a short film using the original Lumière brothers camera. ...

Work for television

Episodes from Cinéastes de notre temps

• Jean Renoir, le patron (Jean Renoir, The Boss) (1966; 128 minutes)
• Jean Renoir parle de son art (Jean Renoir Speaks About His Art) (1966; co-directed with Janine Bazin and Jean-Michel Coldefy)

External links

• Online collection of rare and out-of-print Rivette materials
• Jacques Rivette at the Internet Movie Database
• Jacques Rivette Bio
• Jacques Rivette at SensesOfCinema.com
• An interview with Valérie Hazette on Hurlevent, Senses of Cinema, October 2003
• Interview with Rivette on his favourite films