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Jacques Rivette's Favorite Films

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7.8

1. The Life of Oharu (1952)

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2. Germany Year Zero (1948)

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6.9

3. True Heart Susie (1919)

431

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4. Sunrise (1927)

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5. The River (1951)

183

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6. Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 (1944)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

117

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7. Ivan the Terrible, Part 2 (1958)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

282

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8. L'Atalante (1934)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

141

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9. Day of Wrath (1943)

256

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10. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

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7.2

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11. Mr. Arkadin (1955)

Everyone accepts the fact that novelists read novels, that painters go to exhibitions and inevitably draw on the work of the great artists who came before them, that musicians listen to old music in addition to new music… so why do people think it’s strange that filmmakers – or people who have the ambition to become filmmakers – should see movies? When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980. Their films would probably be better if they’d seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much. Actually, it’s when you see too little that you run the risk of being influenced. If you see a lot, you can choose the films you want to be influenced by. - Jacques Rivette (Senes of Cinema)

Jacques Rivette's Top 10 Favorite Films (circa 1962)
1.....The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2.....Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
3.....True Heart Susie (D W Griffith)
4.....Sunrise (F W Murnau)
5.....The River (Jean Renoir)
6.....Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein)
7.....L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
8.....Day of Wrath (Carl Theodore Dreyer)
9.....Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
10...Mr Arkadin (Orson Welles)

Source: 1962 S&S Poll (Listal) and this site.