31 Facts About Eric Rohmer

Jean Marie Maurice Scherer or Maurice Henri Joseph Scherer, known as Eric Rohmer, was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher.

Eric Rohmer was the last of the post-World War II French New Wave directors to become established.

Eric Rohmer gained international acclaim around 1969 when his film My Night at Maud's was nominated at the Academy Awards.

Eric Rohmer went on to receive the Venice Film Festival's Career Golden Lion in 2001.

Eric Rohmer was born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle department, Lorraine, France, the son of Mathilde and Lucien Scherer.

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Eric Rohmer was educated in Paris and received an advanced degree in history, though he seemed equally interested and learned in literature, philosophy, and theology.

Eric Rohmer had never been very interested in film, preferring literature, but soon became an intense lover of films and about 1949 switched from journalism to film criticism.

In 1951 Eric Rohmer joined the staff of Andre Bazin's newly founded film magazine Cahiers du Cinema, of which he became the editor in 1956.

Eric Rohmer was known as more politically conservative than most of the Cahiers staff, and his opinions were highly influential on the magazine's direction while he was editor.

In 1950 Eric Rohmer made his first 16mm short film, Journal d'un scelerat.

In 1952 Eric Rohmer began collaborating with Pierre Guilbaud on a one-hour short feature, Les Petites Filles modeles, but the film was never finished.

In 1954 Eric Rohmer made and acted in Berenice, a 15-minute short based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

In 1956 Eric Rohmer directed, wrote, edited and starred in La Sonate a Kreutzer, a 50-minute film produced by Godard.

In 1958 Eric Rohmer made Veronique et son cancre, a 20-minute short produced by Chabrol.

Eric Rohmer's career began to gain momentum with his Six Moral Tales.

Eric Rohmer cited the works of Blaise Pascal, Jean de La Bruyere, Francois de La Rochefoucauld and Stendhal as inspirations for the series.

Between 1964 and 1966 Eric Rohmer made 14 shorts for television through the Office de Radiodiffusion Television Francaise and Television Scolaire.

Eric Rohmer later said that television taught him how to make "readable images".

Eric Rohmer described it as a film about l'amour par desoeuvrement .

In 1978 Eric Rohmer made the Holy Grail legend film Perceval le Gallois, based on a 12th-century manuscript by Chretien de Troyes.

Later in 1980 Eric Rohmer embarked on a second series of films: the "Comedies and Proverbs", where each film was based on a proverb.

Eric Rohmer then re-wrote the script based on these sessions and shot the film on Super 8mm as a dress rehearsal.

Eric Rohmer chose to premiere the film on Canal Plus TV, a pay-TV station that paid $130,000 for the film, which was only one fifth of its budget.

Eric Rohmer's films concentrate on intelligent, articulate protagonists who frequently fail to own up to their desires.

Eric Rohmer saw the full-face closeup as a device that does not reflect how we see each other and avoided its use.

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Eric Rohmer tends to spend considerable time in his films showing his characters going from place to place, walking, driving, bicycling or commuting on a train, engaging the viewer in the idea that part of the day of each individual involves quotidian travel.

Eric Rohmer'sstyle was famously criticised by Gene Hackman's character in the 1975 film Night Moves who describes viewing Rohmer's films as "kind of like watching paint dry".

Eric Rohmer's mother died without ever knowing that her son was a famous film director.

Eric Rohmer died on the morning of 11 January 2010 at the age of 89 after a series of strokes.

Eric Rohmer seems to have escaped from this reality by inventing his own laws, his own rules of the game.

On 8 February 2010, the Cinematheque Francaise held a special tribute to Eric Rohmer that included a screening of Claire's Knee and a short video tribute to Eric Rohmer by Jean-Luc Godard.