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Jacques Rivette — French Director born on March 01, 1928,

Jacques Rivette is a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and Cahiers du Cinéma. He has made twenty-eight films, including Le Coup de Berger, Paris Belongs to Us, L'amour fou, Out 1, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Le Pont du Nord, La Belle Noiseuse and Va savoir. Rivette was inspired by Jean Cocteau to become a filmmaker and shot his first short film at the age of twenty. He moved to Paris to pursue his career and frequented Henri Langlois's Cinémathèque Française and other ciné-clubs. In Paris he met François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol and other future members of the New Wave. He began writing film criticism and was hired by André Bazin to write for Cahiers du Cinéma in 1953. As a film critic, he expressed his admiration for American films, especially genre directors such as John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock and Nicholas Ray. He was also highly critical of mainstream French films. His articles were admired by his peers and were considered the most aggressive and well-written of the magazine. He continued making short films, including Le Coup de Berger, often called the first film of the New Wave. Truffaut credited Rivette with initiating the New Wave... (wikipedia)