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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.
Mar 24, 2021 · Rohmer, who was seventy when he made the film, was interested in intergenerational dynamics and their psychological implications—including symbolic (and solely symbolic) evocations of incest.
Sep 4, 2024 · Inspired, Rohmer began to specialise in film journalism and in 1951, started working at the legendary Cahiers du Cinéma, which he went on to edit from 1957 to 1963. But it wasn’t long before he joined the likes of New Wave directors Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut behind the camera.
May 27, 2014 · Not until the Cahiers du cinéma critics, notably Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer, began to make extraordinary claims for Hawks’s art in the mid-1950s did anyone appear to notice that this seeming paradigm of the Hollywood professional, deftly switching from gangster movie (Scarface, 1932) to screwball comedy (Bringing Up Baby, 1938) to war ...
The Cinema of Eric Rohmer combines history and criticism, and offers in-depth analysis of the themes and ideas in each of Rohmer’s twenty-three films, illustrating the complexity of their cinematic style and their non-stop engagement with reality, providing a timely rebuttal to Harry Moseby.
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The authors apply both tact and psychological penetration to the mystery of Rohmer’s relationships with the numerous desirable women who populate his cinema. Asked, “But how do you manage to have tea every day with these magnificent girls?”, Rohmer replied, “My secret is absolute chastity.”
