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 ...

An expansive biopic, Jacques Rivette's newly restored 1994 film Joan the Maid focuses on Joan of Arc the human first — and Joan the myth, saint, and warrior second. Still from Joan the Maid (1994), ...

Appropriately, coming from a filmmaker whose work contains so many doubles and mirrorings, Jacques Rivette’s latest movie has two titles, which in turn reflect two successive titles of its source ...

Is the Getty Really Spending That Much Money for Its Redo? The Rummage Sale of The Devil Wears Prada 2 Walk in Benjamin Harrison’s Footsteps for Gilded Age Glam Audio By Carbonatix Here is the real ...

Heartsick over Paris after the attacks last week, I'd been thinking of other ways to remember the city. This brings me to Jacques Rivette's legendary Out 1, possibly Cinema's greatest urban legend.

Claire Denis’ first-rate documentary (1990) about filmmaker Jacques Rivette, produced for French television, has many things to recommend it. The main interviewer is the great critic Serge Daney, who, ...

Restorations of Jacques Rivette's Duelle and Noroît come to BAM for parallel runs this October. In the mid-1970s, Rivette reunited with the producer of his legendary Out 1 for a series of ...

FRENCH director Jacques Rivette, whom the UCLA Film & Television Archive is feting with a retrospective beginning Saturday, was once asked why his features were so long. “He said something interesting ...

"For passionate film lovers." Janus Films is re-releasing the French New Wave classic L'Amour Fou (aka just Amour Fou) at the Lincoln Center cinemas in NYC this week. The film is getting a nice 4K ...

Around a Small Mountain travels with an itinerant one-ring circus of proud artisans, performing to shrinking rural crowds. “We’re the last classics,” announces one. And after a long and stubbornly ...

We think of France as being more liberated culturally and sexually than the US. And perhaps it is, today. But in the 1960s, post-war/pre-Mai ’68 France was still in the grip of the Catholic Church and ...