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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few directors could say as much with as little as Eric Rohmer. Consider the first emotional climax of A Summer’s Tale (1996): with just two actors, a crew of six, and a hillside trail overlooking a ...

Along with his contemporary François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer created the most enduringly charming body of work among the French New Wave directors who, starting in the 1950s, pushed for a more personal ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Eric Rohmer, a former film critic who became one of France’s most respected filmmakers and was internationally known for movies such as “My Night at Maud’s” and “Claire’s Knee,” died Monday in Paris.