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In 1950 Rohmer made his first 16mm short film, Journal d'un scélérat. The film starred writer Paul Gégauff and was made with a borrowed camera. By 1951 Rohmer had a bigger budget provided by friends and shot the short film Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak.
When Pierre Kast invented the école Schérer label, in 1952, he was careful to come up with a nickname that made clear that that group had a leader: Eric Rohmer (Maurice Schérer was given name).
This statement is how Éric Rohmer characterized the approach to both cinema and morality in what would become both the foundation and touchstone series of his career.
Mar 24, 2021 · His five essays put into action the auteur idea (which, pace Andrew Sarris, is not a theory but a practice): Rohmer was watching movies not like a spectator but like an artist. In the first and...
Eric Rohmer: An Interview Where and when were you born? What I say most often-and I don't want to stake my life that it's true-is that I was born at Nancy on April 4, 1923. Sometimes I give other dates, but if you use that one you'll be in agreement with other biographers. It was cer-tainly 1923. Have you always been interested in the cinema?
This article analyses Eric Rohmer’s film theory in the light of the Platonic triad of truth, beauty and goodness, as embodied by the aesthetic philosophy of Kant, Hegel and Schiller.
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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.
