* Fu Manchu is portrayed in a manner mostly consistent with the Sax Rohmer novels.

Dr. Fu Manchu, the antagonist of several popular novels of Sax Rohmer, is credited with popularizing many of the typical characteristics of the modern supervillain, including his sadistic personality, his desire for world domination, and his use of sinister lairs and themed crimes and henchmen.

Malle is sometimes associated with the nouvelle vague-though his work does not directly fit in or correspond to the auteurist theories that apply to the work of Godard, Truffaut, Chabrol, Rohmer, and others, and he had nothing whatsoever to do with Cahiers du cinéma, he did exemplify many of the characteristics of the movement, including using natural light, and shooting on location.

A Blue Plaque at 51 Herne Hill ( by the junction with Danecroft Road ) marks the former home of author Sax Rohmer ( a. k. a. Arthur Henry Ward ), most famous as author of the series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu.

Ganz made his film breakthrough in a major part in the 1976 film Sommergäste, launching a widely recognized film career in both Europe and the U. S. He has worked with directors Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Éric Rohmer, and Francis Ford Coppola, among others.

Éric Rohmer, a pioneering director from the French New Wave, was notable for focusing on young adults or youth and their complications with love in a number of his films.

* Animal Housecalls-hosted by Ann Rohmer, a phone-in show with guests about animals ; airs on CP24 and Animal Planet Tuesdays at 7: 10 p. m.

Breakfast Television premiered on September 9, 1989 with co-hosts Ann Rohmer and David Onley, with MuchMusic VJ Steve Anthony broadcasting from a different spot around the area each day.

He also made a cameo appearance in Luc Moullet's Brigitte et Brigitte ( 1966 ) with Claude Chabrol and Eric Rohmer.

The term " Chinese water torture " may have arisen from Harry Houdini's Chinese Water Torture Cell ( a feat of escapology introduced in Berlin at Circus Busch September 13, 1910 ; the escape entailed Houdini being bound and suspended upside-down in a locked glass and steel cabinet full to overflowing with water, from which he escaped ), together with the Fu Manchu stories of Sax Rohmer that were popular in the 1930s ( in which the evil Fu Manchu subjected his victims to various ingenious tortures, such as the wired jacket ).

There, Rohmer established himself as a critic with a distinctive voice ; fellow Cahiers du Cinema contributor and French New Wave filmmaker Luc Moullet later remarked that, unlike the more aggressive and personal writings of younger critics like Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, Rohmer favored a rhetorical style that made extensive use of questions and rarely used the first person singular.

In 1957 Rohmer co-wrote a study of Alfred Hitchcock with Claude Chabrol called Hitchcock ( Paris: Éditions Universitaires, 1957 ).

By 1963 Rohmer was becoming more at odds with some of the more radical left-wing critics at Cahiers du Cinema.

In 1952 Rohmer began collaborating with Pierre Guilbaud on a one hour short feature called Les Petites Filles modéles, but the film was never finished.

" In 1964 Rohmer made the 13 minute short film Nadja à Paris with cinematographer Nestor Almendros.

" It was Rohmer's first film shot in color, with Rohmer explaining " the presence of the lake and the mountains is stronger in color than in black and white.

" In his review of the film, film critic Claude Baignéres said that " Eric Rohmer is a virtuoso of the pen sketch ... had not been at ease with the paint tubes that Persival required, in this film he created a tiny figurine whose every feature, every curl, every tone is aimed at revealing to us a state of soul and of heart.

The film began with Rohmer and the actors discussing their roles and reading from the film's scenario while tape recording the rehearsals.

Beginning in the 2000s, Rohmer, in his eighties, returned to period drama with The Lady and the Duke and Triple Agent.

Rohmer said he wanted to look at " thoughts rather than actions ", dealing " less with what people do than what is going on in their minds while they are doing it.

Rohmer himself was quoted in the biography his wife co-authored Master of Villainy to respond to charges that Fu Manchu had demonized all Chinese people by stating that

Rohmer stated that lead actress Marie Rivière " is the one who called the shots, not only by what she said, but by the way she'd speak, the way she'd question people, and also by the questions her character evoked from the others.

A Summer's Tale ( 1996 ) has most of the elements of a typical Rohmer film: no soundtrack music, no closeups, a seaside resort, long conversations between beautiful young people ( who are middle class and educated ) and discussions involving the characters ' interests from songwriting to ethnology.

While few people read the Doctor Fu Manchu novels of Sax Rohmer at the beginning of the 21st century, his character has become iconic and is easily recognized in many of the traits of the Mandarin ; while the Professor may be recognized as Professor Moriarty, the Original Napoleon of Crime ; and Spectrobert is clearly based on the sadistic, exhibitionist French arch-villain and master of disguise Fantomas.

In 1968, following the example of Cahiers du Cinéma critics Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and Éric Rohmer who had created the Nouvelle Vague (" New Wave ") by making their own films, Bogdanovich decided to become a director.

However, celebrated writers such as G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Clayton Rawson and Sax Rohmer have had their works adapted to comic book form.

The first and second " Moral Tales " were never theatrically released and Rohmer was disappointed by their poor technical quality.

Rohmer and Schroder then sold the rights of two of their short films to French TV in order to raise $ 60, 000 to produce the feature film La Collectionneuse in 1967, the third " Moral Tale ".

" As was becoming his custom in pre-production, Rohmer gathered his cast together to discuss the project and their characters, but then allowed each actor to invent their own dialogue.

Gulacy was a film buff, and modeled many characters after film stars: Juliette on Marlene Dietrich, James Larner on Marlon Brando, Clive Reston ( often broadly hinted at as being the son of James Bond as well as the grand nephew of Sherlock Holmes ) occasionally looking like Basil Rathbone and Sean Connery, and a minor character Ward Sarsfield ( after the real-life name of Sax Rohmer ) who looked like David Niven.

The area achieved notoriety for opium dens in the late 19th century, often featured in pulp fiction works by Sax Rohmer and others.

Rohmer often made films that he had been working on his many years and stated " I can't say ' I make one film, then after that film I look for a subject and write on that subject ... then I shoot.

When the film was finally shot, Rohmer often used between two and three takes for each shot, and sometimes only one take.

Additionally, Cahiers critics such as Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer went on to make films themselves, creating what was to become known as the French New Wave.

Their son, Rohmer Emmanuel, was born on March 17, 2010.

* CP24 Live at Noon-hosted by Ann Rohmer and Stephen LeDrew on weekdays ; airs weekdays at noon, this title is also used during the noon-hour newsflow on the weekends

He writes regularly for the magazine which was moving on from its " yellow cover ” beginnings ( the time of André Bazin, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette-roughly 1951-1959 ) and was about to enter a period of heavy theoretical debates and radical political engagement after 1968.

In 1996 Éric Rohmer filmed parts of Conte d ' été in Dinard the Creperie de Clare de Lune is on the waterfront.

Rohmer went on to receive the Venice Film Festival's Career Golden Lion in 2001.

Rohmer was known as being more politically conservative than most of the staff at Cahiers and his opinions were highly influential on the direction of Cahiers during his time as editor.

In 1954 Rohmer made and acted in Bérénice, a 15 minute short based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

But because the film takes place on Christmas Eve, Rohmer wanted to shoot the film on and around Christmas Eve.

In 1978 Rohmer made the Holy Grail legend film Perceval le Gallois, based on a 12th century manuscript by Chrétien de Troyes.

Later in 1980 Rohmer embarked on a second series of films: the " Comedies and Proverbs ", where each film was based on a proverb.

The first " Comedy and proverb " was The Aviator's Wife, which was based on an idea that Rohmer had had since the mid-1940s.

It was based on an idea that Rohmer had in the 1950s, originally intended for Brigette Bardot.