Jacques Rivette

Jacques Rivette

Born: March 1, 1928
Died: January 29, 2016
in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France
Jacques Rivette (March 1, 1928 - January 29, 2016) was a French film director. With Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette was one of the more experimental of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) directors. In common with many of his peers, he had a background in film criticism, where he expressed his admiration for popular American cinema, especially genre directors such as Robert Aldrich, Howard Hawks and Frank Tashlin. Rivette's films progress in unconventional ways—often following multiple plots that can be romantic, mysterious, and comic all at once and employing extensive improvisation—and are often extremely long.

Movies for Jacques Rivette...

Le Cinéma en jeu: L'Amour fou de Jacques Rivette revisité
Title: Le Cinéma en jeu: L'Amour fou de Jacques Rivette revisité
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 2024
Type: Movie
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Conversation entre Jean-Luc Godard et Jacques Rivette
Title: Conversation entre Jean-Luc Godard et Jacques Rivette
Released: July 7, 2017
Type: Movie
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The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
Title: The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 1, 2016
Type: Movie
In June 2015, forty-five years after OUT 1 was made, the filmmakers went to Paris to interview cast and crew members and to revisit some of the film’s most significant locations. THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS features new contributions from actors Bulle Ogier, Michael Lonsdale and Hermine Karagheuz, cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn, assistant director Jean-François Stévenin and producer Stéphane Tchal Gadjieff, but also rare archival interviews with actors Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Michel Delahaye and, most prominently, illuminating statements by director Jacques Rivette himself from two different archival interviews.
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Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Title: Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 2000
Type: Movie
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Up, Down, Fragile
Title: Up, Down, Fragile
Character: Man at Crepe/Hot Dog Stand
Released: April 12, 1995
Type: Movie
The film will tell what happens to a group of characters, precisely between July 14 and August 15, 1994 in Paris. It will tell the story of three young ladies, Louise, Ninon, Ida, in the summer of 1994, their adventures in the big city. On the streets, in the gardens, in ballrooms and in libraries and lofts, deserted at the time of holidays and summer heat, Louis, Ninon and Ida proceed on mysterious paths.
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Jacques Rivette, the Watchman
Title: Jacques Rivette, the Watchman
Character: Self - Director
Released: February 24, 1990
Type: Movie
This film of interviews with the film director Jacques Rivette was produced in collaboration with Serge Daney, film critic from “Cahiers du cinéma”, then of “Liberation”. In the course of their conversations, the two speakers discuss Rivette’s career, his relationships with the other film makers of the new wave, his use of “mise en scene” and his working with actors.
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Short Memory
Title: Short Memory
Character: Marcel Jaucourt
Released: March 3, 1982
Type: Movie
In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is revealed in materials he left behind. She comes upon a young man who is going through the writer's papers, and she immediately assumes he must be one of the conspirators. However, he soon convinces her of his innocence in that regard, and the two together begin a search for the ringleader.
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Merry-Go-Round
Title: Merry-Go-Round
Character: Man entering car (cameo)
Released: October 8, 1981
Type: Movie
New Yorker Ben Phillips and mysterious Léo Hoffmann are strangers who are summoned to Paris by a mutual acquaintance. Upon arrival, they meet and soon find themselves tangled in a complex mystery.
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Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke
Title: Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke
Character: Jacques Rivette
Released: October 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Documentary about filmmaker Shirley Clarke which originally aired on the French television series “Cinéastes de notre temps”.
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Festivals 66 Cinéma 67
Title: Festivals 66 Cinéma 67
Character: Self
Released: May 30, 1967
Type: Movie
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
Title: Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
Character: Self - Interviewer
Released: February 8, 1967
Type: Movie
In the third part of a Cinéastes triptych on Jean Renoir, the director sits alone in a cinema analyzing scenes from La Marseillaise and The Rules of the Game, and discussing his editing and storytelling techniques.
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Title: Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Character: Self - Interviewer
Released: January 22, 1967
Type: Movie
Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon, who celebrate their reunion by discussing, among other things, La Chienne (1931) and Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932).
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
Title: Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
Character: Self - Interviewer
Released: January 18, 1967
Type: Movie
The first of three documentaries by Rivette on Jean Renoir.
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La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Title: La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Character: Self
Released: May 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rozier, Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Jean Rouch, and many others.
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The Lovely Month of May
Title: The Lovely Month of May
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.
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Jean Renoir parle de son art
Title: Jean Renoir parle de son art
Character: Interviewer
Released: November 11, 1961
Type: Movie
Three-part interview with French film director Jean Renoir, conducted by French New Wave director Jacques Rivette.
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Fool's Mate
Title: Fool's Mate
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Claude at his apartment; After some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro Indians used to give their lovers as tokens of affection but, as she shivers in disgust, he gives her a mink instead. How will they hide it from her husband?
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The Glass Castle
Title: The Glass Castle
Character: Un voyageur qui sort de la Gare de l'Est (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy.