When Eric Rohmer died in January at the age of 89, he left behind an inimitable body of work that had beguiled critics and moviegoers for a half-century, even if they found it difficult to pinpoint Rohmer's particular je ne sais quoi. The most overtly literary of the French New Wave directors, eternally fascinated by the mysteries of human attraction, Rohmer was prized for his wry, insightful dialogue, but undervalued for a deceptively simple visual style, of which the writer Gilbert Adair noted: "He knew, in short, how to film what D.W. Griffith called ‘the wind in the trees,' how to film air." In celebration of this extraordinary career, we are delighted to present the most complete North American retrospective of Rohmer's work in more than a decade, including all of his feature films, the U.S. premiere of his 1980 TV film Catherine de Heilbronn, plus special in-person appearances by key Rohmer collaborators.

Featured Works:

Veronique and Her Dunce (Eric Rohmer, 1958); The Sign of Leo (Eric Rohmer, 1959); Présentation or Charlotte and Her Steak (Eric Rohmer, 1960); Suzanne's Career (Eric Rohmer, 1963); The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Eric Rohmer, 1963); Nadja à Paris (Eric Rohmer, 1964); On Pascal (Eric Rohmer, 1965); Six in Paris (Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer, and Jean Rouch, 1965); A Modern Coed (Eric Rohmer, 1966); La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer, 1967); My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer, 1969, pictured); Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer, 1970); Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer, 1972); The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer, 1976); Perceval le Gallois (Eric Rohmer, 1978); Catherine de Heilbronn (Eric Rohmer, 1980); The Aviator's Wife (Eric Rohmer, 1981); A Good Marriage (Eric Rohmer, 1982); Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer, 1983); Full Moon in Paris (Eric Rohmer, 1984); Summer (Eric Rohmer, 1986); Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Eric Rohmer, 1987); Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer, 1987); A Tale of Springtime (Eric Rohmer, 1990); A Tale of Winter (Eric Rohmer, 1992); The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (Eric Rohmer, 1993); Eric Rohmer: Preuves à l'appui (André S. Labarthe and Jean Douchet, 1994); Rendezvous in Paris (Eric Rohmer, 1995); A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer, 1996); Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer, 1998); The Lady and the Duke (Eric Rohmer, 2001); Triple Agent (Eric Rohmer, 2004); The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Eric Rohmer, 2007)

Program information:

The Sign of Rohmer

TIFF Cinematheque

July 29-August 10, 2010

In Memoriam: Eric Rohmer (1920-2010)-Rohmer's Six Moral Tales

Harvard Film Archive

August 20-August 30

The Human Comedies of Eric Rohmer