Jacques Rivette filmography

[1] After making his first short film, Aux quatre coins, in his hometown of Rouen,[2] Rivette moved to Paris in 1949 to pursue a career in filmmaking.

[3] While attending film screenings at Henri Langlois' Cinémathèque Française and other ciné-clubs he gradually befriended many future members of the French New Wave, including François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol.

[5][6][7] He also worked in small roles and as an assistant director to Jean Renoir on French Cancan and Jacques Becker on Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

[14] Paris Belongs to Us was shot in the summer of 1958,[15] but not released theatrically until 1961,[13] after Chabrol, Truffaut and Godard had their feature-film debuts distributed and made the New Wave renowned worldwide.

[16] After staging a theatrical version of Denis Diderot's novel La Religieuse starring Anna Karina in 1963,[17] Rivette became the editor-in-chief of Cahiers du Cinéma until 1965.

[16] Influenced by the political turmoil of May 1968, improvisational theater and an in-depth interview with Jean Renoir,[20] Rivette began working with large groups of actors on character development and allowing events to unfold on camera.

[59] Rivette said that Spectre was more of "a fiction about certain characters", "much tighter", "more compelling"[60] and that it was "a different film having its own logic; closer to a jigsaw or crossword puzzle than was [Noli me tangere], playing less on affectivity, more on rhymes and contrasts, ruptures and connections, caesurae and censorship.

"[61] When Out 1: Noli me tangere was restored in 2006, Rivette re-edited the film, rearranging scenes and cutting a ten-minute sequence out of the original 760 minute version.