While widely acclaimed filmmakers like Richard Linklater and Quentin Tarantino routinely smuggle European influences into their work, the under-seen director Dan Sallitt does it in subtler fashion. 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 ...

The outfits featured in the late French filmmaker’s work, celebrated by a new Instagram account, offer an antidote to all that is plastic and pink. By Sarah Rosen Our critics and writers have selected ...

Filmmaker Eric Rohmer died today in Paris at the age of 89, according to his production company. Though he was often associated with the French New Wave, Rohmer was older than Francois Truffaut and ...

“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 ...

“Whether you think that my films are good or bad, they have a value to one another that helps with understanding them,” stated legendary French director Eric Rohmer in a 2008 interview with the ...

His 1987 film Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle receives a restoration—and hopefully a newfound reputation as classic in the canon of female friendship. A scene from Four Adventures of ...

Nothing is quite as simple as it seems in the films of Eric Rohmer. Nor, perhaps, as complicated. As John Ford was to Westerns, so Rohmer was to a genre of his own devising—droll comedies in which ...