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2. Jean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer ( French: [eʁik ʁomɛʁ]; 21 March 1920 [ a] – 11 January 2010), was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher. Rohmer was the last of the post-World War II French New Wave directors to become established.
Jan 12, 2015 · Rohmer was among the very first critics to take the work of Howard Hawks seriously, so it’s no surprise that he found room in his top 10 to champion this 1948 western. John Wayne and Montgomery Clift star as a father and adopted son who come to blows during a cattle drive along the Chisholm trail.
Laurent Schérer, the younger of Maurice’s two sons, said that his father kept his family and his work apart (“I did not grow up as the son of a filmmaker”). A notable exception, blurring the line between identities: Rohmer invited Mme. Schérer’s advice about some editing cruxes in Full Moon in Paris and Summer.
Jan 12, 2010 · Among the films Eric Rohmer directed in the ninth and last decade of his life were “The Lady and the Duke,” set in the embattled aristocracy of 18th-century France, and “The Romance of...
Jan 13, 2010 · A former editor of Cahiers du Cinéma and one of the most influential figures in the development of the French New Wave, Eric Rohmer, who died recently at the age of 89, has been credited with changing the face of modern cinema. But who was this enigmatic man and how did he come to have such an astonishing influence?
Jan 12, 2010 · Among his survivors is a younger brother, the philosopher René Schérer. His producer, Ms. Menegoz, said Mr. Rohmer was also survived by his wife and two sons, but she declined to reveal their...
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Jan 12, 2010 · Despite being almost universally acknowledged as a master of film, the French director Eric Rohmer, who came to prominence as a member of the so-called New Wave of the late ‘50s and early ‘60s...
