Eric Rohmer: C/D

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.

I should say more.

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.

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.

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"?

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.

Oh...am I in love and don't know it? < / emo>

http://mapage.noos.fr/e.rohmer/images/anne%20laure%20meury.jpg

I liked that thing with people walking about in paintings.

Or was that somebody else?

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005N9GF.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

he has lots of female leads?

I'm curious what's in an Eric Rohmer surprise pouch

(xp) Not in the Six Moral Tales.

XP It was flavored tea, iirc.

Yeah two teabags, some postcards and a Claire’s knee poster

Is that to do with the tea scene in Night at Maud's?

although it's maybe closer to Linklater's Before trilogy?

Keep Rohmer far away from that shit.

oooooooooooh!!

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.

I finally saw The Green Ray 💚

The movie or the phenomenon?

💚

it's on the criterion channel, I'm planning on watching it

the movie 😔

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.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/watch-the-films-of-eric-rohmer-on-his-centenary

Eric Rohmer's TALES OF THE FOUR SEASONS - new restorations coming soon! pic.twitter.com/BEluXXmx4x

— Janus Films (@janusfilms) February 26, 2021

at last -- I've wanted to watch Autumn Tale again for two decades.

Rohmer series running on MUBI right now. Did anyone read the bio? Reviews made it seem interesting.

I've read a biography, not sure if there's more than one? His life isn't really that interesting tbh!

Worth the wait!.

autumn tale is on mubi uk right now

I like A Summer's Tale even more

ok but it isn't on mubi

but it is!
https://mubi.com/films/a-summers-tale

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

^not in the US :(

For either. HBO Max has a few though.

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.

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.

summer's tale is on amazon prime mubi uk but not on o/g mubi

I just linked to it on the real mubi uk!

o/g mubi is 29-films-in-29-days mubi

Wait you guys don’t get Criterion?

Does that version of o/g MUBI still exist?

Criterion Rohmer selection okay at the moment. MUBI US has an interesting Maurice Pialat series going on right now.

it exists on my phone

the other bits are on my phone with it but i DISDANE them

Wait you guys don’t get Criterion?

Nope.

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.

or so I heard.... (it worked last year)

or you can Venmo me your money and I'll see about getting you access.

(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.)

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.

I have them on dvd too

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/

"Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle." is my fave Rohmer. Indeed, one of my fave films by anybody.

Tales of the Four Seasons streaming on Criterion Channel.

god I love Melvil Poupaud.

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.

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

The Lady and the Duke has more tension than his other films.

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7154-eric-rohmers-tales-of-the-four-seasons

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.