Photo of William Lubtchansky
Photo of William Lubtchansky

William Lubtchansky

"We (William Lubthansky) worked together like musicians, really: we had dialogues, like a jazz band that keeps improvising on what had been written. Whoever felt like playing, played first." —Philippe Garrel on Les amants réguliers

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    LA BELLE NOISEUSE

    JACQUES RIVETTE France, 1991

    To the scratch of a nib and the squelch of paint, Rivette’s sonorous and newly restored drama, immerses us in the artistic process, as a battle of wills unfolds between Michel Piccoli’s aging painter and Emmanuelle Béart’s reluctant muse. Roll up your sleeves because things are getting messy.

    DUELLE

    JACQUES RIVETTE France, 1976

    A phantasmagoric noir from Jacques Rivette, whose free-form tales of conspiracy and game-playing inspire clandestine fervor. Rivette followed his masterpiece Celine and Julie Go Boating with Duelle, championed by the Quinzaine, and starring the great Juliet Berto and Bulle Ogier.

    JOAN THE MAID, PART 2: THE PRISONS

    JACQUES RIVETTE France, 1994

    In the conclusion to their two-part epic, the perfectly paired Jacques Rivette and Sandrine Bonnaire continue their atheistic approach to the life & death of Joan of Arc, chronicling Joan, the woman, at war and on trial. An elegant, understated, and uniquely human portrayal of the canonical figure.

    JOAN THE MAID, PART 1: THE BATTLES

    JACQUES RIVETTE France, 1994

    Casting the great Sandrine Bonnaire as his titular heroine, Jacques Rivette diverges from the stark expressionism of Dreyer and transcendent asceticism of Bresson for a rich and expansive six-hour, two-part epic. A singularly human and complicated character study, seen here in a new restoration.

    AROUND A SMALL MOUNTAIN

    JACQUES RIVETTE France, 2009

    The very last film by Jacques Rivette, the most consistently underrated of the French New Wave critics-turned-filmmakers (a group which includes François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard), Around a Small Mountain is a wry, gentle gem starring 60s icon Jane Birkin.

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