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Unfortunately, he can't direct his way out of a paper bag. On top of which the actress is awful, unwatchable". References Notes
Sep 18, 2001 · Unfortunately, he can’t direct his way out of a paper bag. On top of which the actress is awful, unwatchable, the most slovenly girl to appear on the screen in a long, long time.
- Frédéric Bonnaud
Jacques Rivette. [on James Cameron] Cameron isn't evil, he's not an asshole like Spielberg. He wants to be the new De Mille. Unfortunately, he can't direct his way out of a paper bag.
- March 1, 1928
- January 29, 2016
Jan 30, 2016 · He was born in Rouen in 1928, the child of a pharmacist. He developed at an early age a fascination with film and theater. He arrived in Paris in 1949, and he haunted the cine-clubs and the screenings of the Cinematheque Francais. He took in everything. "Rivette was more of a cinema nut than any of us," Truffaut wrote in his memoir.
There is an inherently metaphysical dimension to Rivette's cinema, a striving for truth which goes way beyond a mere desire to extend the aesthetics of the medium. The son of pharmacist, Jacques Rivette was born on 1st March 1928 at Rouen, France. His love for cinema came at an early age and was bolstered when he read Jean Cocteau's published ...
Jan 29, 2016 · Before these, his cult classic Out 1 (1971), conceived for television, ran to 12 hours and 40 minutes. Rivette was a director who believed in spaciousness in the cinema, and asked for an ...
Jacques Rivette ( French: [ʒak ʁivɛt]; 1 March 1928 – 29 January 2016) was a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He made twenty-nine films, including L'Amour fou (1969), Out 1 (1971), Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), and La Belle Noiseuse (1991).
