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The Throwers of the Tantrums (Bright Lights After Dark)

erichk9@aol.com (Erich Kuersten) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:16:00 GMT

What does Jacques Rivette's LA BELLE NOISEUSE (1991) and THE ROCKER (2008) have in common? That's right: they both depend on nudity for substance, and they both suck. You heard me. I hate to Emperor's New Clothes it with Rivette; the man makes a pretty picture, and there's some great subtle naturalistic work from Jane Birkin (second fiddle to husband Serge Gainsbourg for so many...

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Ronald Bergan on his role in the longest film ever (The Guardian)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:10:07 GMT

... himself to squeeze the madeleine as though it were a lemon." Her efforts to get Alain Resnais and Jacques Rivette came to nothing; nor did Joseph Losey's attempt (though the 1972 script by Harold Pinter has been published). Losey tried for years to get finance only to be told by one Hollywood bigwig, "This is the age of Gene Hackman and Barbra Streisand. There are no roles for them...

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Poster service: Nouvelle vague (The Guardian)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:10:53 GMT

... new kind of film. The work of Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Claud Chabrol, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette was identified as the new wave of French cinema.Existential themes – girls and gunsNew wave films established themselves as distinct from both Hollywood mainstream and French cinema. The early films were made with relatively small budgets and some of their stylistic characteristics...

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Locarno Film Festival honorees (Variety.com)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:24:50 GMT

... A conversation with the filmmakers will take place at the Forum on Aug. 8. Past winners include Jacques Rivette, Manoel de Oliveira, Samuel Fuller, Jean-Luc Godard, Bernardo Bertolucci, Joe Dante, Daniel Schmid, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi, Terry Gilliam, Abbas Kiarostami, Wim Wenders, Alexander Sokurov and, in 2007, Hou Hsiao Hsien.The Raimondo Rezzonico Prize: Christine VachonChristine...

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My Crass Duchess (If I Ran the Zoo)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:10:00 GMT

The weekly film at our local art house cinema, the beautifully restored Kirby Center for the Performing Arts, will be pre-empted tomorrow. Rather than showing Jacques Rivette's Duchess of Langeais , the Kirby will host a John McCain "Straight Talk Town Hall." More... I wanted to see the movie, but maybe I'll attend the really big show instead. After all, the plots of the two events actually...

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Tativille's Ten Favorite Female Leads (Tativille)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:31:00 GMT

Sandrine Bonnaire Favorite Films: À nos amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983), Vagabond (Agnès Varda, France), Joan the Maid (Jacques Rivette, 1994), The Ceremony (Claude Chabrol, 1995) Irene Dunne Favorite Films: The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937), Love Affair (McCarey, 1939) Setsuko Hara Favorite Films: Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949), Early Summer (Ozu, 1951), Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953), Sound...

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Brand Upon The Brain! (Hooting Yard)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:52:23 GMT

There are two films I adore without reservation. Both of them have been constant guiding influences on me, either consciously or in more subtle ways. One of them, Jacques Rivette’s Celine And Julie Go Boating (1974) I have seen umpteen times, whereas the other, Peter Greenaway’s A Walk Through H : The Reincarnation Of An [...]

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'Everything Is Cinema': A forgiving biography of Jean-Luc Godard (International Herald Tribune)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:42:06 GMT

... contemporaries - among them future filmmakers of the nouvelle vague including François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette and Maurice Schérer (better known to filmgoers as Eric Rohmer) - educated themselves by making pilgrimages to screenings at the Cinémathèque and the Cine-Club du Quartier Latin, where they might see three or four films a day.

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2008 Progress Report, Part 1 (Fin de Cinema)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:28:00 GMT

Well, fuck me, it’s already past the half-year mark, and 2008 has really surprised me. Thanks to studios like IFC, the early part of the year has been filled with 2007 leftovers from the various international festivals. From new films by Gus Van Sant, Jacques Rivette, Catherine Breillat and Olivier Assayas, to name a few, could you ask for a whole lot more? I’ve assessed all the films...

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Judex + Nuits Rouges (Masters of Cinema Series) in August (DVD Times)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:50:18 GMT

have announced the UK DVD release of Judex + Nuits Rouges – Two Films by Georges Franju on 25th August 2008 priced at £24.99. Co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française and director of Eyes Without A Face, Georges Franju’s JudexNuits Rouges both paid homage to the surreal, silent serial-works of Louis Feuillade. Scripted in collaboration with Feuillade's grandson, Jacques Champreux, Judex is a...

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Film review: Sexual tension steams the air in 'Duchess' (Salt Lake Tribune)

movies@sltrib.com (Sean P. Means / The Salt Lake Tribune) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:41:03 GMT

Jeanne Balibar, left, as Antoinette de Langeais and Guillaume Depardieu as Armand de Montriveau in "The Duchess of Langeais." (AP Photo) The two lovers in "The Duchess of Langeais" are often separated by walls - real ones, as well as divides of social expectations and self-imposed pride - and their passion burns more fiercely for it. Director Jacques Rivette, the now-80-year-old co-founder...

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Images From The Greatest Films of the Decade: Jacques Rivette's Histoire de Marie et Julien (2003) (Moon in the Gutter)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:07:00 GMT

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Review: Unrequited love heats up "Duchess of Langeais" (Salt Lake Tribune)

movies@sltrib.com (Sean P. Means / The Salt Lake Tribune) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:41:48 GMT

Click photo to enlargeAntoinette (Jeanne Balibar), the married Duchess of Langeais, encounters Armand (Guillaume...The two lovers in "The Duchess of Langeais" are often separated by walls - real ones, as well as divides of social expectations and self-imposed pride - and their unrequited passion burns more fiercely for it. Director Jacques Rivette, the now-80-year-old co-founder of the...

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Directors' Fortnight @ BAM. (GreenCine Daily)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:03:21 GMT

"Directors' Fortnight emerged as a sort of Gallic Slamdance: an independent alternative to Cannes," writes Michelle Orange in the Voice. "Presenting four decades' worth of alt-programming highlights, BAMcinématek kicks off Directors' Fortnight at 40 with a fabulously appropriate, week-long...

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BAM Rose Cinema Losing Its Edge? (Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:27:53 GMT

So BAM is showing Sex and the City and the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: I thought they were the local edgy cinema. Aren't those films, like, big blockbusters? What are they doing at BAM. WE can go to the Pavilion to see them. They do have Reprise: The freewheeling passion of youth and the unpredictable perils of fate are both the subject and breathtaking form of Joachim Trier’s...

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Film times and brief film reviews (ximblr.com)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:37:03 GMT

... that unrequited ardor can run in both directions. Adapted from a Balzac story, the latest from Jacques Rivette, once known as the French New Wave’s most daring experimentalist, has the grace, simplicity and intelligence of a venerable master attaining a kind of poised classicism is his late work. Chief among the film’s beauties are the extraordinary performances Rivette coaxes...

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Birkin, Castellitto to star in Rivette film (Variety.com)

Wed, 21 May 2008 15:27:29 GMT

Film News: Project to begin filming by year's end -- Jane Birkin and Italo Cannes jury member Sergio Castellitto will topline French auteur Jacques Rivette's next pic.

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New movies (ximblr.com)

Thu, 15 May 2008 10:36:03 GMT

... to inadvertent comedy. (JW) ‘The Duchess of Langeais’ | B- | (NR; 2:17): Legendary French director Jacques Rivette orchestrates a elaborate dance of seduction between a calculating lady (Jeanne Balibar) and a needy general (Guillaume Depardieu). It's crafty, but those unfamiliar with Rivette’s methodical style or the courtly intrigues of the early 19th century may grow restless...

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The Great Alibi (Le Grand Alibi) (Variety.com)

Mon, 12 May 2008 03:11:44 GMT

Film Reviews: Nobody's innocent in "The Great Alibi," a highly chatty, highly French whodunit from veteran writer and Jacques Rivette collaborator Pascal Bonitzer ("Small Cuts") that adapts Agatha Christie's 1946 novel "The Hollow" to chic present-day Gaul. With high-class corpses popping up faster than corks off champagne bottles, and strong ensemble thesping, this potboiler is pleasant...

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Examination of a strange pair feels much newer than its source (Denver Post)

Fri, 09 May 2008 04:53:57 GMT

You might assume that Jacques Rivette knows a thing or two about making movies; he directed his first film in 1949 (he turned 80 in March).

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