Jacques Rivette
Jacques Rivette (French: [ʒak ʁivɛt]; 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 for André Bazin at Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s and gained international recognition as film directors in the 1960s. Rivette had greater success and recognition as a filmmaker in the 1970s. As a film critic, he expressed his admiration for American films, especially genre directors such as John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock and Nicholas Ray. 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. He bhas worked with several actors on multiple films, such as Bulle Ogier, Anna Karina, Juliet Berto, Geraldine Chaplin, Jane Birkin, Nicole Garcia, Sandrine Bonnaire, Emmanuelle Béart, Laurence Côte, Nathalie Richard, Marianne Denicourt, Jeanne Balibar, Michel Piccoli, André Marcon, Sergio Castellitto and Jerzy Radziwilowicz. He often worked with such writers and technicians as William Lubtchansky, Nicole Lubtchansky, Claire Denis, Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent, Suzanne Schiffman, Eduardo de Gregorio, Marilù Parolini, Charles Bitsch and Jean Gruault.