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Rohmer preferred to use non-professional actors in his films. He usually held a large number of rehearsals before shooting and would shoot his films very quickly. He spent little time editing his films.
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...
Giving us clear insights into how Rohmer’s films came about and what he intended them to be, Leigh – who has already published widely on the director and his films – shows how Rohmer took complete control over all his films, acting as his own producer throughout his career, and writing the scripts.
Apr 4, 2010 · Rohmer belonged to a generation of critics and writers whose postwar polemic against the ‘tradition of quality’ in French cinema embraced a rebellious ideology of filmmaking.
Often, Rohmer did not let the actors know when rehearsal ended and filming began. Rohmer was born (in 1920) Maurice Schérer and, under that name, conducted his life as a teacher and a bourgeois family man in parallel with his life as a filmmaker.
Dec 17, 2013 · Both his educational films for television from the 1960s and ‘70s and three series of late shorts, which he helped his (mostly female) collaborators to complete, at last find access to public gaze.
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Apr 4, 2010 · In La collectionneuse Rohmer ordered him to shoot only one take of each shot; it was not so much due to money issues, but mostly because Rohmer believed that the actors are much better in the first take (after intensive rehearsals before the shooting itself started). There are only two instances of shots that required two takes, partly due to a ...
