― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago) link
he is more classical than the classical directors...a cinema of utmost restraint, almost invisible (except when it's not, as in perceval and his last film).
a conservatism to be admired and grappled with as well.
his films of the 80s are my favorite. esp. the aviator's wife.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 19 January 2004 12:08 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 19 January 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago) link
I should say more.
― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 31 May 2004 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― gene hackman, Monday, 31 May 2004 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 31 May 2004 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link
And why is 'the adolescent is the most natural among us' either interesting or realistic?
It's the only Rohmer film I've seen, and I found it worthwhile the first time around, but the second time around I realized I don't have much need for Nestor Almendros or French-people-being-more-ruminative-than-Americans-shocker when the characters are cartoons.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 31 May 2004 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 31 May 2004 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 31 May 2004 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 31 May 2004 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Will McKenzie, Monday, 31 May 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 25 September 2004 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 25 September 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 September 2004 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 September 2004 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 25 September 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 September 2004 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link
My memory of Pauline a la plage is clouded, but maybe instead of an appeal to naturalness, it could be an indictment, an acknowledgment, of artifice in love, even romantic love, which is supposed to be natural.
La carriere de Suzanne reminds me of the album Rattlesnakes by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. Something about the shirt collars and books on mantelpieces.
― youn, Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Again, my memory is clouded, but as i remember it, there is some tension between love and value that is tragic just as much as vanity is tragic. What does it mean to "love in vain"?
― youn, Sunday, 26 September 2004 03:39 (nineteen years ago) link
he's amazing, but really hard to get a handle on i find. i admire the purified/contrarian aspects of his aesthetic but sometimes i find the reasoning/ideas behind that aesthetic sort of suspect.
i saw a zillion rohmer films earlier this year as part of a complete retro at the cinematheque francaise. i think my favorite is "marquise d'o," although it's very very weird and discomforting.
and yeah, i really liked his new one, although i never go gaga over a rohmer film, i always leave kind of puzzled. his films are so ... clinical...or how do i put it? so...unruffled.... i'm not sensitive enough yet to his sensibility for them to really effect me emotionally.
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 26 September 2004 03:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 26 September 2004 04:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 26 September 2004 07:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh...am I in love and don't know it? < / emo>
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 26 September 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Friday, 22 October 2004 04:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link
http://mapage.noos.fr/e.rohmer/images/anne%20laure%20meury.jpg
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 23 December 2004 03:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 23 December 2004 10:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link
I liked that thing with people walking about in paintings.
Or was that somebody else?
― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 24 December 2004 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 24 December 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 24 December 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005N9GF.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Friday, 31 December 2004 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link
he has lots of female leads?
― niels, Monday, 10 December 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
I'm curious what's in an Eric Rohmer surprise pouch
― jmm, Monday, 10 December 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
(xp) Not in the Six Moral Tales.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Monday, 10 December 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
XP It was flavored tea, iirc.
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 December 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
Yeah two teabags, some postcards and a Claire’s knee poster
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 10 December 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
Is that to do with the tea scene in Night at Maud's?
― jmm, Monday, 10 December 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
although it's maybe closer to Linklater's Before trilogy?
Keep Rohmer far away from that shit.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 December 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
oooooooooooh!!
― flappy bird, Monday, 10 December 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
OK, The Bakery Girl of Monceau really pulled me in. I rented Suzanne's Career and My Night at Maud's today, excited to go through them + IV & VI + eventually revisit Claire's Knee.
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 February 2019 05:30 (five years ago) link
I finally saw The Green Ray 💚
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 January 2020 05:09 (four years ago) link
The movie or the phenomenon?
― nickn, Thursday, 30 January 2020 05:14 (four years ago) link
💚
it's on the criterion channel, I'm planning on watching it
― Dan S, Thursday, 30 January 2020 05:15 (four years ago) link
the movie 😔
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 January 2020 05:22 (four years ago) link
Green Ray's wonderful. Love the story about how they had to wait a whole year to get the titular image on film because it didn't happen the year they were actually filming.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 30 January 2020 06:30 (four years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/watch-the-films-of-eric-rohmer-on-his-centenary
― johnny crunch, Friday, 20 March 2020 23:23 (four years ago) link
Eric Rohmer's TALES OF THE FOUR SEASONS - new restorations coming soon! pic.twitter.com/BEluXXmx4x— Janus Films (@janusfilms) February 26, 2021
― flappy bird, Friday, 26 February 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link
at last -- I've wanted to watch Autumn Tale again for two decades.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 February 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
Rohmer series running on MUBI right now. Did anyone read the bio? Reviews made it seem interesting.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 February 2021 19:32 (three years ago) link
I've read a biography, not sure if there's more than one? His life isn't really that interesting tbh!
― Punk's not daft (Tom D.), Friday, 26 February 2021 19:58 (three years ago) link
Worth the wait!.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 04:30 (two years ago) link
autumn tale is on mubi uk right now
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
I like A Summer's Tale even more
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
ok but it isn't on mubi
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
but it is!https://mubi.com/films/a-summers-tale
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
Mubi has 5 Rohmer's (The 4 Seasons Tales + LA COLLECTIONNEUSE which is great.)
BFI has 7 https://player.bfi.org.uk/search/subscription?q=rohmer&availability=1
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
^not in the US :(
― Rated “Blecchs” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
For either. HBO Max has a few though.
― Rated “Blecchs” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
MUBI US often doesn’t have a lot of stuff you guys have and for the other we get some kind of subset, BFI Player Classics.
― Rated “Blecchs” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
Mark is in the UK though. He didn't move thar far afaik!
James Redd - You guys get the Criterion channel though and I bet Mubi US has lots of great stuff we don't get.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
summer's tale is on amazon prime mubi uk but not on o/g mubi
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
I just linked to it on the real mubi uk!
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
o/g mubi is 29-films-in-29-days mubi
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:37 (one year ago) link
Wait you guys don’t get Criterion?Does that version of o/g MUBI still exist?
― Rated “Blecchs” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
Criterion Rohmer selection okay at the moment. MUBI US has an interesting Maurice Pialat series going on right now.
― Rated “Blecchs” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
it exists on my phone
the other bits are on my phone with it but i DISDANE them
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
Wait you guys don’t get Criterion?
Nope.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
If you use a VPN, get a new email address and take out a trial using a debit card, you can use it for a fortnight until it works out your card is not in the US.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
or so I heard.... (it worked last year)
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
or you can Venmo me your money and I'll see about getting you access.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
(Youth and age make one vulnerable (from naivete or nostalgia). This is incurred as life experience and observed with pathos held in reserve and without intrusion or judgment, not sardonically or cruelly and if familiar not overly so but with fondness and keenness for experience.)
― youn, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
I don't have the services mentioned, but I have these films on DVD.
FWIW I quite like these seasonal tales and I think I enjoy Summer best.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
I have them on dvd too
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
I don't subscribe, but I noticed that Metrograph's streaming service ($5/month or $50/year) has three Rohmer films: "The Aviator's Wife," "Boyfriends and Girlfriends," and "Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle." It sounds like you can cancel your membership anytime, so you could just watch all their streaming stuff for one month for $5. Pretty interesting selection: https://metrograph.com/at-home/
― ernestp, Thursday, 6 October 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
"Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle." is my fave Rohmer. Indeed, one of my fave films by anybody.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Thursday, 6 October 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link
Tales of the Four Seasons streaming on Criterion Channel.
god I love Melvil Poupaud.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 April 2023 16:21 (eleven months ago) link
If my favourite Rohmer isn't La Collectioneuse, it's one of the medieval films. The appeal of the rest escapes me, it's pleasant at best.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 00:08 (eleven months ago) link
Could never get into the costumed ones at all (except maybe Triple Agent). They seemed to miss the point of what made his films great - eg the minute dissection of every fray micro-dramas
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 07:37 (eleven months ago) link
The Lady and the Duke has more tension than his other films.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 09:19 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7154-eric-rohmers-tales-of-the-four-seasons
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 17:44 (four months ago) link
Love the bit in "Le Rayon Vert" where Delphine walks by a group of people discussing Jules Verne and decides to eavesdrop on them - because she heard the word "green" mentioned, I assume. It's absolutely vital to the film but it's done in such a casual way, the conversation is so natural, the people are plainly not actors. Then having the one old guy there get up and mansplain the physics of the green ray is just perfect.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Monday, 8 January 2024 22:36 (two months ago) link