Jacques Rivette
Jacques Rivette
Jacques Rivettewas a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He made twenty-nine films, including L'amour fou, Out 1, Celine and Julie Go Boating, and La Belle Noiseuse. His work is noted for its improvisation, loose narratives, and lengthy running times...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth1 March 1928
CountryFrance
counter few films idiotic influenced runs theory
Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.
film-history directors certain
When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.
ideas feet floating
And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.
ideas numbers scripts
I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, meaning an outline or scheme: it implies a dynamism, a number of ideas and principles from which one can set out to find the best possible approach to filming.
trying directors
I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.
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For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.
feelings machines mutants
Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.