A Winter's Tale. Playing now at Lincoln Center.
Pure and untarnished by Hollywood corporate gangsters.
Pure and untarnished by Hollywood corporate gangsters.
http://feastofhateandfear.com/archives/zedd.html
rohmer's style
Rohmer's films concentrate on intelligent, articulate protagonists who frequently fail to own up to their desires. The contrast between what they say and what they do fuels much of the drama in his films. Gerard Legrand once said that "he is one of the rare filmmakers who is constantly inviting you to be intelligent, indeed, more intelligent than his (likable) characters."[ Rohmer considered filmmaking to be "closer to the novel — to a certain classical style of novel which the cinema is now taking over — than the other forms of entertainment, like the theater."
early life
Rohmer was born Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer (or Jean-Marie Maurice Schérer) in Tulle in south central France, the son of Mathilde (née Bucher) and Lucien Schérer.Rohmer was a Catholic. He was secretive about his private life and often gave different dates of birth to reporters. He fashioned his pseudonym from the names of two famous artists: actor and director Erich von Stroheim and writer Sax Rohmer, author of the Fu Manchu series. Rohmer was educated in Paris and received an advanced degree in history. He also studied literature, philosophy and theology as a student
