Rivette, who started out on Cahiers du Cinéma with Truffaut and Chabrol was best known for lengthy, intellectual films such as Céline and Julie Go Boating and La Belle Noiseuse Jacques Rivette, the ...

With his unhurried, free-form explorations of art and sex – one of which ran for amost 13 hours – the French New Wave’s late-blooming great continued thinking and innovating until the end A phrase ...

Was Jacques Rivette the heart of the French New Wave, or its appendix? Jonathan Rosenbaum, Rivette’s most devoted acolyte, writes that “all of his first six features take place in a sharply perceived ...

With the death last week of Jacques Rivette, a certain idea of French cinema took one step closer to death. Along with François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, Rivette was one of the ...

Two small experimental theatre troupes working on plays by Aeschylus and two puckish young eccentrics give rise to “Out 1: Noli Me Tangere,” Jacques Rivette’s feature film from 1971 that runs five ...

Jacques Rivette, a founding member of the French New Wave who hewed to his own path while his colleagues went on to greater success, has died at the age of 87. His last film was 2009’s “Around a Small ...

Jacques Rivette, who died today, at the age of eighty-seven, was both the most open and the most reticent of French filmmakers. Of his openness, I had the good fortune of personal experience—I ...

French director Jacques Rivette, a secretive pioneer of convention-bashing New Wave film renowned for creating rich roles for women such as Emmanuelle Beart, has died at 87. Rivette's films — like ...

The most anticipated movie of the year is from 1971. It's called Out 1: Noli me tangere, and among cineastes it's long been regarded as something of a holy grail – coveted but maddeningly out of reach ...

French New Wave director Jacques Rivette, who often explored the blurry line between reality and fantasy in a career spanning six decades and more than 20 features, died Friday at his home in Paris.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rivette started his career alongside New Wave luminareis Jean Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut. Like many of his peers he also ...

Jacques Rivette, who has died aged 87, was the pre-eminent theoretician of the French 'New Wave' and the filmmaker who, with Jean-Luc Godard, came closest in his own work to realising the movement's ...