Streaming now in various virtual cinemas in new restorations, Éric Rohmer’s “Tales of the Four Seasons,” the last of his three major film cycles, offers a fresh chance to consider the methods of one of cinema’s most quietly perceptive artists. Compared to his “Six Moral Tales” and “Comedies and Proverbs,” films that probed the strident yet misplaced confidence of young people as they attempt to find their place in the world, the “Tales of the Four Seasons” found Rohmer—70 years old the year that the first film in the series, 1990’s A Tale of Springtime, premiered—turning his attentions to middle-aged characters.
Perhaps for that reason, this is the most narratively driven cycle in Rohmer’s oeuvre, focusing on characters who may still show flashes of impertinence but generally have a far more solid grasp of self than the pseudo-intellectuals and flighty dreamers of his earlier work. This...
Perhaps for that reason, this is the most narratively driven cycle in Rohmer’s oeuvre, focusing on characters who may still show flashes of impertinence but generally have a far more solid grasp of self than the pseudo-intellectuals and flighty dreamers of his earlier work. This...
- 2/14/2024
- by Jake Cole
- Slant Magazine
Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors Trilogy is showing from December, 2019 and January, 2020 on Mubi in the United Kingdom.I watched my first Krzysztof Kieślowski as a high schooler, sitting next to my mother, in my town’s only cinema. As with anything in the early stages of my cinephilia, that baptism had been her idea. The movie theatre we’d pay weekly pilgrimages to had allocated a whole three-day run to The Decalogue (1989), and she thought that Kieślowski’s Ten Commandments TV saga would be a good place to start. I forgot much about those few hours, but not the perturbing feeling that crept up on me as the ten chapters began to unfold on screen. I sensed—and it’s a feeling that keeps resurfacing anytime I tread into a Kieślowski film, however many times I may have seen it already—that I’d been there before. That curious déjà-vu...
- 12/15/2019
- MUBI
Don't let the insane adorableness of Sarah Michelle Gellar's daughter Charlotte Grace fool you—she can spit some mighty vicious rhymes! Dressed as Princess Jasmine of Aladdin, Charlotte very ungracefully roasts her Disney colleague, "Oh Cinderella, you think you're fine. Your shoe may fit, but you're running out of time!" Ohhh snap! She then lays down an equally nasty burn, "My boy Ali, he's got my back—maybe a whole new world is what you lack!" Oh no she didn't! Mommy captioned the smackdown, "Clearly I am not the only rapping princess in our house." The Buffy the Vampire Slayer star is alluding to her guest...
- 7/21/2015
- E! Online
Are film directors like cupids? Are they armed with a bow and arrow, shooting their particular and peculiar vision of life at the audience so some spell can begin? If so, Eric Rohmer's arrows are philosophically tinged, though aimed more at the heart and the many-tiered prejudices surrounding it than the head. Sometimes mistakenly branded intellectual, his cinema is the personification of the Shakespearian invocation at the beginning of Twelfth Night, “If music be the food of love, play on...” His music is talk and the talk is of love, and though it can stray into discussions of Plato, Pascal, and Kant, its end is the heart because the fleshy fist ultimately decides who we stay with and who we leave, who's in and who's out—the fist answers Rohmer's main question, Who, out of all the people I attract or I'm attracted to, is my type?
Rohmer's least seen,...
Rohmer's least seen,...
- 12/19/2014
- by Greg Gerke
- MUBI
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The Performer | Maggie Q
The Show | Nikita
The Episode | “Til Death Do Us Part”
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The Performance | Maggie Q was tasked with a difficult job in Nikita‘s season ender: to portray her typically tough-as-nails heroine as she fluctuated from hopeless to hopefulness then back again a few dozen times — and did she ever deliver. From forcing down heartache after bidding a subtle so long to her Division family to accepting Michael and Alex’s assistance against Amanda to being...
The Performer | Maggie Q
The Show | Nikita
The Episode | “Til Death Do Us Part”
The Airdate | May 17, 2013
Related | The CW’s New Fall TV Show Trailers
The Performance | Maggie Q was tasked with a difficult job in Nikita‘s season ender: to portray her typically tough-as-nails heroine as she fluctuated from hopeless to hopefulness then back again a few dozen times — and did she ever deliver. From forcing down heartache after bidding a subtle so long to her Division family to accepting Michael and Alex’s assistance against Amanda to being...
- 5/18/2013
- by Team TVLine
- TVLine.com
The wonderful late summer Lincoln Center retrospective "The Sign of Rohmer" would require a book-length study to give a reasonable account of the many layers of Rohmer's filmmaking, and of the surprising variety of emotions and behavior that one finds beneath the surface consistency of his material. Instead of that book, I offer a memory of the final impressions that the series made on me: of two intense scenes from two dissimilar films shown in the last days of the Walter Reade program. In one film, Rohmer uses bleak, snowy landscapes and unaesthetic working-class interiors as the backdrop for the single strongest affirmation of a character in his work. In the other, a light-comic tone and an idyllic vacation ambience culminate in emptiness and desolation.
About two-thirds of the way into Conte d'hiver (A Tale of Winter) (1992), Rohmer tips off the origin of his story idea by sending his working-class...
About two-thirds of the way into Conte d'hiver (A Tale of Winter) (1992), Rohmer tips off the origin of his story idea by sending his working-class...
- 10/18/2010
- MUBI
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