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Jacques Rivette and French New Wave Cinema - Interviews, Conversations, Chronologies (Paperback)
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Jacques Rivette and French New Wave Cinema - Interviews, Conversations, Chronologies (Paperback)
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This first comprehensive English collection of the interviews of
Jacques Rivette (19282016) documents his career through chronology,
filmography, bibliography, and image stills. A comprehensive
introduction places this work in the wider context of
twentieth-century social change. Rivettes films, like many of the
works of the French New Wave, seem to have avoided the aging
process entirely, remaining as playful, fresh, and quietly
spectacular as the day they were made. Indeed, his body of work may
be the most impressive of the French New Wave. Celine and Julie Go
Boating (1974) has been recognized as possibly the best film to
emerge from the post-New Wave era, even as Paris Belongs to Us
(1961) is one of the best pictures to emerge from the New Wave
itself. Rivette was hardly the most prolific director, however, and
the length of his films has often counted against him. Nonetheless,
his clinical, self-reflexive essays in film form reveal him as a
cinematic purist whose commitment to the celluloid muse hardly
diminished from the heady days of the early 1950s to the end of his
career in 2009. Beyond inspiring the New Wave movement and
continuing to reflect, and reflect on, its central tenets, Rivettes
enduring contribution to the history of film is unquestionably
evident in his sensitive treatment of the histories and destinies
of women, especially through strong roles for actresses. During the
six decades of his career, nonetheless, he struck a subtle balance
not only between female and male characters, but also between
political and personal obsession, between myth and fiction, between
theater and cinema, in films that, in addition to having influenced
such contemporary filmmakers as Claire Denis, Jim Jarmusch, Olivier
Assayas, and David Lynch, continue to redefine the art of cinema
around the world.
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