Two of the most important openings tomorrow are the work of veteran directors, only one of whom is alive to witness the event. The first is Clint Eastwood’s “Jersey Boys,” which I’ll revisit soon; the ...

“I saw a Rohmer film once,” said Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn’s classic mid-’70s neo-noir Night Moves. “It was kind of like watching paint dry.” Born in Tulle, France, as Maurice Schérer, Rohmer first ...

Some—indeed, only a few—of Eric Rohmer’s films are available here on DVD; so is a collection (albeit incomplete) of his film criticism. What’s not available here is an English translation of his 1996 ...

The sexiest part of Love in the Afternoon, French director Eric Rohmer’s classic infidelity movie, is not the scene where Chloé and Frédéric almost consummate their flirtatious friendship. No, it’s ...

Meeting for drinks. Going to the beach. Family dinners. Eric Rohmer was a visionary who dealt in the down-to-earth, argues Michael Newton, as the BFI prepares to celebrate the French director It’s ...

The films of the late French director Eric Rohmer—not just a prime filmmaker of the French New Wave but, as a crucial critic and programmer in postwar Paris and an editor at Cahiers du Cinéma, its ...

Nick is a writer who works and lives in Los Angeles, California. He has previously written for Indiewire, The Playlist, and Little White Lies. To those familiar with French New Wave cinema, the name ...

Eric Rohmer’s films aren’t just people talking at length on earnest subjects. The vast amount of talk in his films hints at furious desire, and it substitutes for the gratification of that desire, ...

A scene from Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle. (Courtesy of the Metrograph) In Éric Rohmer movies, the men talk too much. Almost all that talk is about women. His men obsess over women, ...

As a person, he was the most deferential of the New Wave directors, yet the most persistent. Eric Rohmer. He died yesterday, aged eighty-nine, and he had made 50 films in that time--as regular, as ...

Subtle irony, minimal plot – and plenty of couples debating the meaning of love. This summer's cinema has all gone a bit Eric Rohmer. So why do today's directors love the French auteur? After a ...

There are surely many people in the I've-never-seen-an-Eric-Rohmer-movie club though those of us in that number who have at least heard of him take some small solace from that. Rohmer, a journalist ...