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Summer Update
In the dog days of summer, an update equal parts new and old. B. Kite's follow-up to "Jacques Rivette and the Other Place: Track 1," appropriately titled Jacques Rivette and the Other Place: Track 1b, is now available online.
Also suitably epic, Joseph Coppola (of My Gleanings fame) introduces and compiles a pretty comprehensive overview of Jacques Rivette on "le conseil des dix", Cahiers du cinema's proverbial 'ratings roundtable' where different panelists scored the films opening at the time. Not unlike the interweb today, in fact. Among other things, Rivette gives a bullet ("the film does not merit being seen") to Alexander Mackendrick's The Ladykillers.
MK Raghavendra looks for a common thread hemming through Paris Belongs to Us, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Secret defense and Histoire de Marie et Julien in The World as Narrative, a problem since interpreting them "presumes that the film 'knows' what it is doing." Both new critical pieces available in this update refer to fantasy locations in their titles, and that focus on the frontiers of imagination segues nicely into the two older critical pieces by Rivette now online, both dealing with "the two American cinemas: Hollywood, and Hollywood."
Notes on a Revolution deals with "the four front-rankers" of the emerging new violence in American cinema: Nicholas Ray, Richard Brooks, Anthony Mann, Robert Aldrich.
And in On Imagination, Rivette focuses exclusively on the then-newest film by one of those front-rankers, Nicolas Ray and The Lusty Men. "Without any doubt, the most constant privilege of the masters is that of seeing everything, including the most simple mistakes, turn out to their advantage rather than diminishing their stature... I find no fault with exaggerations of this kind, and the auteur's own enjoyment, which I feel coming through some of the time, is consolation for many films which only communicate the director's boredom."
What's new for Summer:
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Where to Start?
Well, four pieces could be:
There are a number of other articles online here that fit the bill, but these specific four cover a range of topics and run the gamut in terms of materials available (retrospective criticism, contemporaneous criticism written about the film at the time of its release, on-set reporting, and interviews, respectively). Additionally, if you are looking for something pertaining to a specific film, the Filmography section cross-references every article on this site to the film or films it deal/s with. Party on!
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