Two of the most important openings tomorrow are the work of veteran directors, only one of whom is alive to witness the event. The first is Clint Eastwood’s “Jersey Boys,” which I’ll revisit soon; the ...

“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 ...

There are surely many people in the I've-never-seen-an-Eric-Rohmer-movie club though those of us in that number who have at least heard of him take some small solace from that. Rohmer, a journalist ...

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 films of the late French director Eric Rohmer—not just a prime filmmaker of the French New Wave but, as a crucial critic and programmer in postwar Paris and an editor at Cahiers du Cinéma, its ...

French director Eric Rohmer, a member of the French New Wave, has died. He was 89. By Duane Byrge, The Associated Press Eric Rohmer, a member of the French New Wave who directed such films as “My ...

Eric Rohmer, a former film critic who became one of France’s most respected filmmakers and was internationally known for movies such as “My Night at Maud’s” and “Claire’s Knee,” died Monday in Paris.

The sexiest part of Love in the Afternoon, French director Eric Rohmer’s classic infidelity movie, is not the scene where Chloé and Frédéric almost consummate their flirtatious friendship. No, it’s ...

A scene from Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle. (Courtesy of the Metrograph) In Éric Rohmer movies, the men talk too much. Almost all that talk is about women. His men obsess over women, ...

For viewers who only care about plot, here's a quick summary that applies to most of the films in Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" series, now collected in a box set: Boy meets girl. Boy flirts with ...

How did old master Eric Rohmer come to make the technologically inventive “The Lady and the Duke”? As the 82-year-old writer-director explained to an interviewer, “I like to get out from time to time.

Few directors could say as much with as little as Eric Rohmer. Consider the first emotional climax of A Summer’s Tale (1996): with just two actors, a crew of six, and a hillside trail overlooking a ...