Jacques Rivette

Headlines from the Web

The Duchess of Langeais: Feminin, Masculin

8/28/2008 1:59:38 PM

Source: LA Weekly

Nathan Lee Weighs in on Leaving the Village Voice, Why Critics are Ineffective, and What's Next

8/25/2008 11:04:19 AM

Source: Rotten Tomatoes

Latest Articles

Une Vieille Maîtresse|The Last Mistress

A novel adapted as softcore S&M porn
Catherine Breillat’s film is an adaptation of Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly’s 19th-century novel and perhaps her first that doesn’t transform sex and cinema into punishment.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 23, 2008

Cherchez les femmes

Women dominate the 13th Annual Boston French Film Festival
Women have always dominated French cinema — just not from behind the camera.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 01, 2008

Hell boy

Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz at the ICA
Fassbinderians rejoice — your crucifixion, your tribulative martyrdom, has arrived.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | March 18, 2008

Ne Touchez Pas la Hache|La duchesse de Langeais

Art vis-à-vis life
He may have just turned 80, but Jacques Rivette still gets a kick out of the parallel-mirror effect of art vis-à-vis life.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 12, 2008

Better transformers

MIFF 10 honors cinema’s past and future
Maine film buffs have it tough.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | July 11, 2007

Rain man

The lingering gaze of Béla Tarr at the HFA
Let’s take stock of Béla Tarr, the great Hungarian dyspeptic, and maybe the most famous and revered international film titan to have been so pitifully screened in American theaters that his public profile here is tantamount to an embargo.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | January 10, 2007

Cinema belongs to him

The je ne c’est quoi world of Jacques Rivette
For many backlashing film scholars and canonical cinéastes, most of the big players in the French New Wave — Truffaut, Chabrol, Rohmer, Resnais, etc. — have been, over time, at least a touch overrated, save two: Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | January 03, 2007