Éric Rohmer
A Biography
Columbia University Press · Print & ebook · April 17, 2018
The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma from 1957 to 1963, Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades.
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- Who it’s for
- A biography that reads like criticism, with cinema never far from the page.
- Genres
- Director Studies, Lives in Entertainment, Artists' Lives
- Published
- Columbia University Press, April 17, 2018
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The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma from 1957 to 1963, Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. Such brilliance does not develop in a vacuum, and Rohmer cultivated a fascinating network of friends, colleagues, and industry contacts that kept his outlook sharp and propelled his work forward.
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Despite his privacy, he cared deeply about politics, religion, culture, and fostering a public appreciation of the medium he loved. This exhaustive biography uses personal archives and interviews to enrich our knowledge of Rohmer's public achievements and lesser known interests and relations. The filmmaker kept in close communication with his contemporaries and competitors: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette. He held a paradoxical fascination with royalist politics, the fate of the environment, Catholicism, classical music, and the French nightclub scene, and his films were regularly featured at New York and Los Angeles film festivals. Despite an austere approach to life, Rohmer had a voracious appetite for art, culture, and intellectual debate captured vividly in this definitive volume.
Critical Life
A biography that reads like criticism, with cinema never far from the page.
Come here for
- literary criticism with a film-history pulse
- a sustained, book-length life study
Expect
- French literary precision
- a long, immersive narrative read
Where it sits
| Director Studies | 83% |
|---|---|
| Lives in Entertainment | 32% |
| Artists' Lives | 31% |
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Publisher categories
- Contemporary Art History (1945-)
- Film & Video Art
- Lives in Entertainment
- French History
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- Film Direction & Production
- Authors
- Antoine de Baecque, Noël Herpe, Steven Rendall
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- April 17, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Contemporary Art History (1945-)