Eric Rohmer (1920-2010)
Watching an Eric Rohmer film was famously described by Harry Moseby, the Gene Hackman character in Arthur Penn’s Night Moves, (1975) (in a line quoted in both Rohmer’s Wikipedia entry and his New York Times obituary), as “like watching paint dry.†It’s my favorite movie line about a film-maker, and—along with de Niro’s bounty-hunter in [...]
