This loosely shot film plays like a work by Eric Rohmer, but with a distinct 21st-century sensibility. Initially, people talk and talk, but more complex and fascinating themes organically emerge ...

It’s a kind of magic – not the 1980s stadium rock extravaganza type, more the movie-make-believe sort. “Editing is magic!” says Mary Stephen, Hong Kong-born film and documentary editor and ...

Asako I & II (2018) and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) question memory’s veracity by playing with doublings, coincidences and duplicity in ways that have earned comparisons with Jacques Rivette ...

In Carson’s plotless poems (which appear between most of the collection’s named pieces and look to be pasted and collaged onto the page), she asks again and again: “Do you like the films of Eric ...

What does a season represent? Change? Continuity? In Tales of the Four Seasons–a masterwork 1990s film series by the brilliant French auteur Éric Rohmer–it’s a mix of both. The four films, each ...

An ever-heavier air of impending doom wafts through “Afire,” Christian Petzold’s quietly atmospheric study of artistic isolation and ego. As the film opens, Leon (Thomas Schubert) and his ...

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 ...

Harold (Bud Cort) is a death-obsessed young man who elaborately stages suicide attempts to gain his cold mother’s affection; Maude (Ruth Gordon) is a manic pixie dream senior who injects a bit ...

I spoke with Feely about how it feels for the Object Collection to return to live ... Can you tell me a bit about Eric Rohmer’s influence on its creation? Kara Feely: We have always been huge ...