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AROUND A SMALL MOUNTAIN
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It must be the French diet that accounts for why so many French New Wave filmmakers--Godard, Resnais, Varda, Chabrol, and Rohmer--were, and are, able to keep producing great films well into their 80s. Add Jacques Rivette and his whimsical drama, Around a Small Mountain, to that list. Sergio Castellitto and Jane Birkin star.
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CELINE & JULIE GO BOATING
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A most wonderful film from Jacques Rivette, a multi-layered, exuberant lark about two hyperimaginative young ladies (Dominique Labourier and Juliet Berto) involved in a haunted house mystery. Considered by many critics to be the seminal movie of the '70s; a dazzling jack-in-the-box. "The most radical and delightful narrative film since Citizen Kane! The experience of a lifetime" (David Thomson, Soho Weekly). French with English subtitles. Jacques Rivette---France---1974---193 mins.
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DON'T TOUCH THE AXE (THE DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS)
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Jeanne Balibar and Guillaume Depardieu star in Jacques Rivette's handsome adaptation of Balzac's The Duchess of Langeais. Nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear.
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HAUT BAS FRAGILE ( UP DOWN FRA
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Rivette's luminous romantic musical set in summertime Paris is about three women, an ex-hooker, a former amnesia victim and a librarian, whose lives--which revolve around each other and an opulent nightclub run by a mysterious man--are changed by a mystery, an artist and a gun. Starring Marianne Denicourt, Nathalie Richard and Laurence Cote. "The antithesis of the slick Hollywood musicalàgraceful" (Kevin Thomas, L.A. Times). In French Jacques Rivette---France/Switzerland---1995---169 mins.
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JACQUES RIVETTE COLLECTION
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A central figure in the French New Wave, veteran filmmaker Jacques Rivette has continued to push boundaries and develop his craft across the breadth of his lengthy career. This extraordinary collection highlights some of the director's key works from the 1980's and 1990's. L'Amour Par Terre (1984, 170 mins.) establishes a dichotomy between film in theatre in a showdown between a stage actress and a screen director. Hurlevent (1985, 130 mins.) is Rivette's bold version of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, starring Fabienne Babe and Lucas Belvaux. La Bande des Quatre (1988, 160 mins.) is a Pirandellian ensemble film about an acting class who allow a Marivaux play to influence their day-to-day lives. La Belle Noiseuse (1991, 240 mins.) is Rivette's lengthy and enthralling examination of the creative process, a film about the relationship between a painter and model. Haut Bas Fragile (1995, 170 mins.) tells the tale of three Parisian women in the form of a musical comedy. Finally, Secret Defense (1998, 173 mins.) is a taut and moody thriller about a young Jacques Rivette---France---1984-1998---1300 mins.
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JOAN THE MAID (I & II)
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A brilliant interpretation of the story of Joan of Arc by French New Wave and post-New Wave master Jacques Rivette. With a ravishing performance from Sandrine Bonnaire as Joan, this epic about the 15th century teenager who ledvthe French army into battle is a freshly detailed view of the passion and of the complex moral, ecumenical and power issues Joan of Arc forced to the surface. At the same time, Rivette succeeds at humanizing Joan's personal conflict in a very direct yet intimate way. The first film, Joan the Maid: The Battles (115 mins.) follows Joan as she leaves Domremy and tries to convince a captain to take her to the Dauphin, and ends with her first battle at Orleans. In the second part of his film diptych, Joan the Maid: The Prisons (126 mins.), Rivette concentrates on Joan of Arc's imprisonment, interrogation and eventual burning at the stake. Rivette emphasizes Joan's marytrdom in a poignant interpretation of her famous line, "I know what I must do but at times I don't know how." Bonnaire again plays Joan while Rivette himself appears in a cameo as the priest who blesses her just before she leaves home. In French with English subtitles.
Jacques Rivette---France---1993---241 mins.
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LA BELLE NOISEUSE
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Jacques Rivette's ambitious masterpiece explores the artistic process in terms of both its transcendent power and its potential for exploitation and destructivness. The core of the film is the confrontation between Frenhofer, a renowned but inactive painter, and a model (played by Emmanuelle Beart). It begins in wary hostility, escalates into a pitched battle of wills, and ends as a true collaboration, with each driving the other to dangerous limits. "One of the finest films ever made about art" (Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune). Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Cinematography by William Lubtchansky. Loosely inspired by the Balzac short story The Unknown Masterpiece. With Michel Piccoli and Bernard Dufour. In French with English Jacques Rivette---France/Switzerland---1990---240 mins.
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PARIS BELONGS TO US
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Shot on weekends, with no money and no sets, with actors donating their time and Chabrol providing left-over film stock, this film concerns a group of amateurs who come together in Paris to stage a performance of Shakespeare's Pericles. But sexual and political tensions develop, their composer dies, the producer kills himself and a fascist conspiracy seems to be lurking in the background. The result of Rivette's two-year struggle is a work of total originality and inventiveness, of amazing depth and independence of vision. French with English subtitles. Jacques Rivette---France---1958-60---124 mins.
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STORY OF MARIE AND JULIEN
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Emmanuelle Beart and Jerzy Radziwilowicz play the eponymous lovers in this romantic drama by veteran director Jacques Rivette. Their affair begins at a time when both are busy seeing other people, but following the death of Marie's boyfriend and the disappearance of Julien's lover, they decide to make a fresh start. "A refined and sublimely enrapturing composition" (Strictly Film School). In French with English subtitles. Jacques Rivette---France---2003---150 mins.
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