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Rohmer Summer has fed into Rohmer Fall: following sold-out screenings of The Green Ray and a shorts program, my screening series Amnesiascope has partnered again with Instagram auteur Rohmer Fits for two special screenings of Éric Rohmer’s 1998 triumph A Tale of Autumn, which will play Sunday, October 13 and Tuesday, October 22 at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research.

Though perhaps the crowning achievement in Rohmer’s Tale of Four Seasons, A Tale of Autumn still seems underappreciated and underseen. A brisk fall evening in close quarters suggests the ideal time to discover or revisit the film––for my money his best take on both the romantic comedy and Shakespearian case of mistaken identity. Our thanks to Janus Films for facilitating these screenings.

Official synopsis is below and tickets are here. We look forward to seeing you.

The concluding installment of the “Tales of the Four Seasons” tetralogy is a breezy...

Michael Caine young. Michael Caine movies: From Irwin Allen bombs to Woody Allen classic It's hard to believe that Michael Caine has been around making movies for nearly six decades. No wonder he's had time to appear – in roles big and small and tiny – in more than 120 films, ranging from unwatchable stuff like the Sylvester Stallone soccer flick Victory and Michael Ritchie's adventure flick The Island to Brian G. Hutton's X, Y and Zee, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth (a duel of wits and acting styles with Laurence Olivier), and Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men. (See TCM's Michael Caine movie schedule further below.) Throughout his long, long career, Caine has played heroes and villains and everything in between. Sometimes, in his worst vehicles, he has floundered along with everybody else. At other times, he was the best element in otherwise disappointing fare, e.g., Philip Kaufman's Quills.

Glenda Jackson: Actress and former Labour MP. Two-time Oscar winner and former Labour MP Glenda Jackson returns to acting Two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson set aside her acting career after becoming a Labour Party MP in 1992. Four years ago, Jackson, who represented the Greater London constituency of Hampstead and Highgate, announced that she would stand down the 2015 general election – which, somewhat controversially, was won by right-wing prime minister David Cameron's Conservative party.[1] The silver lining: following a two-decade-plus break, Glenda Jackson is returning to acting. Now, Jackson isn't – for the time being – returning to acting in front of the camera. The 79-year-old is to be featured in the Radio 4 series Emile Zola: Blood, Sex and Money, described on their website as a “mash-up” adaptation of 20 Emile Zola novels collectively known as "Les Rougon-Macquart."[2] Part 1 of the three-part Radio 4 series will be broadcast daily during an...

In the 1990s, novelist and political activist Nadja Tesich looked back on her days in Paris, specifically the day in the mid-1960s when Eric Rohmer asked her to work with him on Nadja à Paris. Meantime, at the Av Club, Mike D'Angelo picks a scene from Love in the Afternoon, a montage featuring actresses Rohmer had worked with: Françoise Fabian, Béatrice Romand, Marie-Christine Barrault, Haydée Politoff, Laurence De Monaghan and Aurora Cornu. And for Artinfo, Craig Hubert talks with Corina Copp about her first book, titled after and inspired by Rohmer's 1986 film, The Green Ray. » - David Hudson...

In the 1990s, novelist and political activist Nadja Tesich looked back on her days in Paris, specifically the day in the mid-1960s when Eric Rohmer asked her to work with him on Nadja à Paris. Meantime, at the Av Club, Mike D'Angelo picks a scene from Love in the Afternoon, a montage featuring actresses Rohmer had worked with: Françoise Fabian, Béatrice Romand, Marie-Christine Barrault, Haydée Politoff, Laurence De Monaghan and Aurora Cornu. And for Artinfo, Craig Hubert talks with Corina Copp about her first book, titled after and inspired by Rohmer's 1986 film, The Green Ray. » - David Hudson...

In conjunction with La Furia Umana, Notebook is very happy to present Ted Fendt's original English translation of Luc Moullet's "Le masque et la part de Dieu," on the films of Eric Rohmer. Moullet's original French can be found at La Furia Umana.

Cecil summed up the difference between him and his brother, William DeMille, like this: “I show a thousand camels and you show one camel and you psychoanalyze it.” Eric Rohmer is a lot more like William than Cecil, minus Freud.

What is fascinating, foremost, in his work is his obstinacy to not go beyond his only or main subject, often summed up, in a somewhat misleading way, by its title: Béatrice Romand wants a good marriage, or, at least, to help her friend have one (A Tale of Autumn), Brialy wants to caress Claire’s Knee (meaning, to be sure that she is practically consenting), Lucchini,...