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Jul 10, 2016 · For the younger critics, Rivette’s text not only convinced them of the merits of Monsieur Verdoux, it also signalled to them the direction which the critical project of Cahiers should take in the 1960s: one that would focus on modernist cinema, contemporary theory and radical politics.
- Daniel Fairfax
Nov 15, 2019 · Like a young provincial newcomer who discovers cinema’s silent masterpieces for the first time in Paris, Rivette tried his hand at film criticism in the early months of 1950 in Bulletin du ciné - club du Quartier Latin, a small journal which became a supplement to the Cinema-Club animated by Rohmer and his former student Frédéric Froeschel (Arma...
- Zahra Tavassoli Zea
- Z.Tavassoli-Zea@kent.ac.uk
- 2019
Q: Jacques Rivette is considered a pioneer of the French New Wave. What is the general timeline of that movement and who are some of Rivette’s contemporaries? A: Film historians generally point to the crucial years of 1958-9 as the beginning of the film movement, which became known as the New Wave (nouvelle vague).
Mar 29, 2010 · The new wave was spearheaded by a small group of critics who wrote for Cahiers du Cinema, a French film journal. It was a motion against the traditional French cinema, which was more literature than cinema.
Rivette’s writings in particular were profoundly influenced by G. W. F. Hegel’s philosophy – as demonstrated, for example, by Douglas Morrey’s illuminating scholarship in “To Describe a Labyrinth: Dialectics in Jacques Rivette’s Film Theory and Film Practice” (2012).
A more comprehensive sampling of Rivette’s criticism might include his texts (or remarks, in roundtable discussions) on film criticism, Sommarlek, Les 400 Coups, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Le Testament d’Orph é e, Splendor in the Grass, Proces de Jeanne d’Arc, Monsieur Verdoux, Muriel, Franju’s Judex, and at least part of his writing on ...
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Jan 30, 2016 · the French New Wave who started as critics, Rivette marked the purest distillation of the movement’s intellectual passions and artistic impulses. He directed 23 features, a couple of documentaries and several shorts.
