The best Éric Rohmer’s documentary movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Éric Rohmer’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Éric Rohmer.
Hitchcock/Truffaut
7.3/10
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
La traversée du désir
5.7/10
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
7.6/10
Documentary overview of the life of French filmmaker François Truffaut.
Louis Lumière
7.6/10
Eric Rohmer leads a conversation with Jean Renoir and Henri Langlois on the art of filmmaker Louis Lumière.
Les contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his unusual working methods, his personality, and his spare but evocative signature style. Among the thespians who share their memories are Jean-Louis Trinitignant, Marie-Christine Barrault, Zouzou, Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Françoise Fabian, and Andre Dussolier; the film also includes rare footage of Rohmer himself at work on the set of his 1978 effort Perceval.
Parlons cinema avec Eric Rohmer
An interview with French film director Eric Rohmer.
Nouvelle vague: El cine sin dogmas
Postface à l'Atalante
An interview with François Truffaut on the cinema of Jean Vigo.
Moral Tales, Filmic Issues
7.6/10
A conversation between Eric Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder.
Postface à Boudu sauvé des eaux
An episode of the educational French television series "Aller au cinéma" in which filmmaker Eric Rohmer and critic Jean Douchet discuss the social implications of Jean Renoir's 1932 film "Boudu Saved From Drowning."
