• All the world's a dream
• Guy Sherwin
• The Archbishop the criminal and the repair of destinies
• Rohmer's passing
• The White Ribbon
• Army of Crime
• On the Waterfront's Unanswered Question
• Solaris: Soviet Cars
• The Banishment
• A Cathedral Tale
• Ford & Kipling
• No Country For Old Men
• Perfect Storm

TEN SHORT THOUGHTS ABOUT ERIC ROHMER

January 2010

Eric Rohmer passed away on 11 January 2010, possibly to a better life, although it is hard to imagine that it could be sweeter than the one he conceived on earth.  His mind was on one thing: cinema, first as a critic, then as a maker of short films, then in television, and most superbly in feature films, 25 in all.  He is a favourite film-maker of mine, and although there has been a gratifyingly wide coverage of his death in the press, his achievements I believe remain underrated.  The standard charge against him is that the films merge into one another, making them hard to distinguish.  I can see Rohmer may not be to your taste, but let us give him more credit than that. To see how, download this pdf here.