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With Jean-Luc Godard , Jacques Rivette is considered to be the most experimental of the French New Wave directors. Like Godard, he had a background in Film Criticism , but he also loved popular American cinema, especially genre directors such as Robert Aldrich and Frank Tashlin . Rivette's stories progress in unconventional ways - often following multiple plot lines that can be romantic, mysterious, and comic all at once and employing extensive Improvisation . As a result, his films are often extremely long (the infamous '' Out 1 '' clocked in at 13 hrs, although a 4½ hour cut was later produced) and many of them are rarely seen. BIOGRAPHY Jacques Rivette was born in , Jean-Luc Godard , François Truffaut , Claude Chabrol , and Luc Moullet . Rivette championed American directors of the 1940s and 1950s, specifically the work of Howard Hawks , John Ford , Nicholas Ray , and Fritz Lang . In 1958, he began to work on his first feature using borrowed equipment and short ends of film stock. He finished '' Paris Nous Appartient '' two years later. '' Céline Et Julie Vont En Bateau '' (''Céline and Julie Go Boating'' / ''Céline and Julie Lose Their Minds'') is perhaps Rivette's most famous and best loved work. His other important films include ''Out 1'', ''L'Amour fou'', '' Paris Nous Appartient '', and '' La Belle Noiseuse ''. FILMOGRAPHY Feature films Along with ''Out 1'', ''La Belle noiseuse'', and ''Va savoir'', Rivette also at one point cut an alternate version of ''L'Amour fou'', while the current version of ''L'Amour par terre'' was cut from a longer and preferred version of the film. ''Duelle'' and ''Noroît'' were two episodes from an intended four part series "Scenes from a Parallel Life" and ''Histoire de Marie et Julien'' was later based on an unfilmed episode. Due to the rare nature of Rivette's works, many DVDs (such as the Region 1 Facets release of ''Jeanne la pucelle'') are from edited or otherwise incomplete versions of his films.
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