The multifaceted, deeply personal work of Eric Rohmer had an effect on cinema unlike any other. One of the founding critics of the history-making “Cahiers du cinéma,” Rohmer began translating his written manifestos to film in the 1960s, standing apart from his New Wave contemporaries with his patented brand of gently existential, hyperarticulate character studies set against vivid seasonal landscapes. This near genre unto itself was established with the audacious and wildly influential series Six Moral Tales, a succession of encounters between fragile men and the women who tempt them. Rohmer continued to make piercing social comedies over the course of the next five decades, including the melancholy midcareer highlight THE GREEN RAY, and exercised a profound influence on filmmakers as disparate as Richard Linklater, Joanna Hogg, and Hong Sang-soo.