sábado, 7 de março de 2015
Double bill
terça-feira, 17 de junho de 2014
Predicated on the development of a narrative convention both strict and elastic enough to accommodate a tension between dramatic probability and fantasy, between the continuity of suspense and the discontinuity of structure - between discourse and poetry, in short - Feuillade's work relates more to the future of film than to its past. Which is to say, as Robbe-Grillet has said, that "Imagination, when really alive, is always of the present." Annette Michelson, Film and the Radical Aspiration, Film Culture, n° 42, outono de 1966
segunda-feira, 7 de abril de 2014
Como disse um amigo: depois que se toma consciência de algo, não se pode ficar inconsciente daquilo. Se a tomada de consciência parece inicialmente prejudicial, só um aumento dessa consciência pode tornar a situação positiva. O autor de Nous ne sommes plus innocents sabe bem disso.
domingo, 16 de junho de 2013
quarta-feira, 2 de janeiro de 2013
Il coraggio di Rivette
Para começar bem o ano:
(via Mehdi Benallal)
sexta-feira, 6 de janeiro de 2012
Pelas sendas da modernidade
sábado, 26 de março de 2011
domingo, 25 de janeiro de 2009
(...) Nothing but appearances, but all in the same movement as their emergence, their birth, their invention: secret of the origin of the cinema, that exists here as though it were, from now on, no longer referring to a secret. But at the same time, our astonishment before it: Franju is at once the one who, through science, rediscovers the secret, and the modern one who knows it’s lost — and, astonishing himself with his power, keeping watch over the secret, affirming it, at last, beyond all doubt.Jacques Rivette, Cahiers du cinéma nº 149, novembro 1964
quarta-feira, 30 de janeiro de 2008
No teatro
Teatro é cinema e cinema é teatro, sim - mas esse teatro só tem algum valor enquanto cinema, esse cinema só tem algum valor enquanto teatro, à medida que se transformam mutuamente, metamorfoseando-se em outras expressões da arte (o Rivette em dança, o Resnais em arquitetura, o Parajanov em pintura), com o dispositivo fílmico pondo à prova o teatral e vice-versa.
segunda-feira, 10 de dezembro de 2007
If mise en scène is a dance of love and death, few directors can fashion a choreography as romantic and tortuous as Rivette, in this dazzling two-hender costume melodrama.
quarta-feira, 3 de outubro de 2007
« ... Vive Preminger, qui sait qu'il n'est ni un penseur, ni un réformateur du monde, mais simplement un parfait metteur en scène, que dans ce mot il y a scène, et pourquoi le théatre serait-il pour nous matière [non] cinématographique? »
Jacques Rivette, « En attendant les Godons », Cahiers du Cinéma, n° 73, julho 1957, p. 39
terça-feira, 29 de maio de 2007
Rivette
“One could see there successively at 6:30 p.m. Griffith’s Broken Blossoms and at 8:30 Andy Warhol’s The Chelsea Girls. And it was fabulous precisely because one could see Griffith and Warhol together on the same night. Because it was then that one realized that there are not two or three kinds of cinema, there’s only one cinema. It was the perceptual interaction of the present and the past of the cinema that was so exciting.”
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After years of obscurity, Jacques Rivette's puzzling Out 1 finally makes it to Chicago.
quarta-feira, 3 de maio de 2006
Contra o mac-mahonismo
Ou: Cahiers contra Présence, a guerra declarada.
If we made such a point of mise en scene ten years ago, this was done deliberately to stimulate controversy and to rehabilitate the idea that cinema is also something which one sees on the screen. But over the last few years the conception has been so widely abused that one is finally driven to explain what exactly one meant. It is not simply a matter of talking about the fascination of the image one sees on the screen, but of understanding how mise en scene is an expression of the intelligence of the director. The term covers, that is to say, not only the position of the camera, but the construction of the script, the dialogue, and the handling of the actors. Mise en scene, in fact, is simply a way of expressing what in the other arts would be called the artist's vision; and a novelist's vision obviously does not depend solely on where he places an adjective, or how he builds a sentence, but also on the story he is telling. When we made claims for Preminger, or Hawks, or Hitchcock, it should have been evident that it was their personal vision of the world we wanted to bring home to audiences.
But the whole conception has been abused to the point of imbecility, and it is now used to suggest that so long as the camera movement can be called sublime, it makes no difference if the story is fatuous, the dialogue idiotic and the acting atrocious. This, it seems to me, is the exact opposite of everything we fought for under the banner of mise en scène, when we insisted on the importance of establishing a film's authorship.
Sight & Sound, Outono 1963, entrevista com Jacques Rivette





























