The great French filmmaker Eric Rohmer has passed away at age 89, according to the L.A. Times.
Best known for such films as Claire’s Knee and My Night at Maud’s, he was a longtime world-cinema favorite who began making movies in the early ’50s. He started out as a journalist and served as editor of influential film journal Cahiers du Cinema, essentially the house organ of the French New Wave film movement, from 1956 to 1963.
Rohmer in March 2008 told journalist Kaleem Aftab that The Romance of Astrea and Celadon could be his final film. “I haven’t got plans to make another film, it’s not easy for me to make films now,” he said. “These days it takes me much longer to prepare a film then when I was younger.”
For more of Aftab’s feature, published in The Independent (UK), click here.
More coverage of Rohmer’s passing:
Hollywood Reporter
BBC News
New York Times
Reuters