Jacques Rivette: The great manipulator

According to Fieschi's account, the logic of these interrelated motifs goes something like this.\n And never forget that, as a twenty-nine-year-old critic at Cahiers du cinéma (contributing many pieces that he would later refuse to have anthologized into a book since, after becoming a director himself, he no longer agreed with his own, former opinions), Rivette celebrated the Mabuselike, controlling "hand" of Fritz Lang, sometimes literally visible in the insert shots of his films! [...]we all worked together like a rock band.