French director and noted film critic Eric Rohmer, whose highly praised psychological meditations on life such as “My Night at Maud’s” and “Claire’s Knee” made him an iconic figure in French cinema, ...

Seinfeld got a lot of mileage out of being ‘a show about nothing,â? but Eric Rohmer was there first. ‘Having nothing to do for the first time in 10 years, I undertook to really do nothing,â? says ...

Éric Rohmer is one of the few filmmakers whose name, no less than those of Hitchcock or Chaplin, has become an adjective. A Rohmerian film is one in which people talk, and talk at length, whether they ...

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 ...

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: David Lowery’s The Green Knight, starring Dev ...

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 ...

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 ...