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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.
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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.
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).
It is well known that, in the 1950s, before the French New Wave was born, some of its key filmmakers (Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, François Truffaut) worked as film critics for Cahiers du Cinéma.
Feb 3, 2016 · Though the phrase was coined by his fellow auteur Jean-Luc Godard, Rivette made it his own, one that long set the terms of debate over every subsequent effort to portray the Holocaust through...
Dec 21, 2016 · Jacques Rivette’s “Out 1” — a 12-hour film, completed in 1971 and all but impossible to see in its entirety until very recently — begins with an extended sequence that combines artlessness and...
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Throughout the afternoon, he spoke of cinema as a devoted moviegoer, someone who “keeps up” as strenuously as he did when he was a practicing critic, and continues to have precise and articulate opinions about what he sees.
