Cahiers du cinéma
| Editor | Stéphane Delorme |
|---|---|
| Categories | Film magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Phaidon Press[1] |
| First issue | April 1951 |
| Country | France |
| Based in | Paris |
| Language | French |
| Website |
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| ISSN | 0008-011X |
Cahiers du Cinéma (French pronunciation: [kaje dy sinema], Notebooks on Cinema) is a French language film magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.[1][2] It developed from the earlier magazine Revue du Cinéma (Review of the Cinema established in 1928) involving members of two Paris film clubs—Objectif 49 (Objective 49) (Robert Bresson, Jean Cocteau and Alexandre Astruc, among others) and Ciné-Club du Quartier Latin (Cinema Club of the Latin Quarter). Initially edited by Doniol-Valcroze and, after 1957, by Éric Rohmer (Maurice Scherer), it included amongst its writers Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut.[1] Cahiers re-invented the basic tenets of film criticism and theory. It is the oldest film magazine in publication.[3]
History and profile
The first issue of Cahiers appeared in April 1951.[4] A 1954 article by Truffaut attacked La qualité française ("the French Quality") (usually translated as "The Tradition of Quality") and was the manifesto for 'la politique des Auteurs'[2] which Andrew Sarris later termed the auteur theory — resulting in the re-evaluation of Hollywood films and directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Robert Aldrich, Nicholas Ray, and Fritz Lang. Cahiers du Cinema authors also championed the work of directors Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini, Kenji Mizoguchi, Max Ophüls, and Jean Cocteau, by centering their critical evaluations on a film's mise en scène. In turn, auteurs were compared and contrasted, and a true film dialogue was established. The magazine also was essential to the creation of the Nouvelle Vague, or New Wave, of French cinema, which centered on films directed by Cahiers authors such as Godard and Truffaut. Movement by movement, style by style, the cahiers sought to advance and analyze the growth of world cinema.
Jacques Rivette replaced Rohmer as editor in 1963, shifted political and social concerns and paid more attention to the non-Hollywood cinema. The style moved through literary modernism in the early 1960s to radicalism and dialectical materialism by 1970. Moreover, during the mid-1970s the magazine was run by a Maoist editorial collective. In the mid-1970s, a review of the American movie Jaws marked the magazine's return to more commercial perspectives, and an editorial turnover: (Serge Daney, Serge Toubiana, Thierry Jousse, Antoine de Baecque and Charles Tesson). It led to the rehabilitation of some of the old Cahiers favourites, as well as some new film makers like Manoel de Oliveira, Raoul Ruiz, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Youssef Chahine, and Maurice Pialat. Recent writers have included Serge Daney, Serge Toubiana, Thierry Jousse, Antoine de Baecque, Vincent Ostria, Charles Tesson and André Téchiné, Léos Carax, Olivier Assayas, Danièle Dubroux, and Serge Le Péron.
In 1998, the Editions de l'Etoile (the company publishing Cahiers) was acquired by the press group Le Monde.[5] Traditionally losing money, the magazine attempted a make-over in 1999 to gain new readers, leading to a first split among writers and resulting in a magazine addressing all visual arts in a post-modernist approach. This version of the magazine printed ill-received opinion pieces on reality TV or video games that confused the traditional readership of the magazine.[1][2]
Le Monde took full editorial control of the magazine in 2003, appointing Jean-Michel Frodon as editor-in-chief.
In February 2009, Cahiers was acquired from Le Monde by Richard Schlagman, also owner of Phaidon Press, a worldwide publishing group which specialises in books on the visual arts.[1] In July 2009, Stéphane Delorme and Jean-Philippe Tessé have been promoted respectively as editor-in-chief and deputy chief editor.
Film top 10s
The following is a list of the Top 10 films chosen annually by the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma.
1950s
1960s
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| 1967 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Persona | Ingmar Bergman |  Sweden |
| 2. | Belle de Jour | Luis Buñuel |  France |
| 3. | Weekend | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 4. | The Lion Hunters | Jean Rouch | France |
| 5. | Playtime | Jacques Tati | France |
| 6. | The Big Mouth | Jerry Lewis |  United States |
| 7. | Daisies | Vera Chytilova |  Czechoslovakia |
| The Nun | Jacques Rivette | France | |
| 9. | 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 10. | La Chinoise | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
1970s
No lists
1980s
| 1983 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | À Nos Amours | Maurice Pialat | France |
| L'Argent | Robert Bresson | France | |
| 3. | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Oshima |  United Kingdom Japan |
| Un jeu Brutal | Jean-Claude Brisseau | France | |
| 5. | The King of Comedy | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Pauline at the Beach | Éric Rohmer | France | |
| 7. | L'Enfant Secret | Philippe Garrel | France |
| Faux-Fuyants | Alain Bergala & Jean-Pierre Limosin | France | |
| Three Crowns of the Sailor | Raúl Ruiz | France | |
| 10. | Cracking Up | Jerry Lewis | United States |
| Fanny And Alexander | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | |
| 1985 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Hail Mary | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 2. | Détective | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 3. | Year of the Dragon | Michael Cimino | United States |
| 4. | After the Rehearsal | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| 5. | Love Streams | John Cassavetes | United States |
| 6. | The Home and the World | Satyajit Ray |  India |
| 7. | Les Amants terribles | Danièle Dubroux | France |
| 8. | The Children | Marguerite Duras | France |
| 9. | Ran | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| 10. | Favorites of the Moon | Otar Iosseliani | France |
| Rendez-vous | André Téchiné | France | |
| 1986 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | The Green Ray | Éric Rohmer | France |
| 2. | Legend of Suram Fortress | Sergei Parajanov |  Soviet Union |
| The Sacrifice | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union | |
| 4. | Double Messieurs | Jean-François Stévenin | France |
| 5. | Bad Blood | Leos Carax | France |
| Maine-Ocean | Jacques Rozier | France | |
| 7. | Thérèse | Alain Cavalier | France |
| 8. | Scene of the Crime | André Téchiné | France |
| 9. | After Hours | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Alpine Fire | Fredi M. Murer |  Switzerland | |
| Disorder | Olivier Assayas | France | |
| Gardien de la nuit | Jean-Pierre Limosin | France | |
| Rise and Fall of a Small Cinema Company | Jean-Luc Godard | France | |
| 1988 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | A Short Film About Killing | Krzysztof Kieślowski |  Poland |
| 2. | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman | United States |
| 3. | The Dead | John Huston | United States |
| 4. | Urgences | Raymond Depardon | France |
| 5. | Bird | Clint Eastwood | United States |
| 6. | Landscape in the Mist | Theo Angelopoulos |  Greece |
| 7. | De bruit et de fureur | Jean-Claude Brisseau | France |
| 8. | The Last Temptation of Christ | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| 9. | Les Innocents | André Téchiné | France |
| 10. | Story of Women | Claude Chabrol | France |
1990s
| 1994 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Caro diario | Nanni Moretti |  Italy |
| 2. | I Can't Sleep | Claire Denis | France |
| 3. | Carlito's Way | Brian De Palma | United States |
| 4. | Wild Reeds | André Téchiné | France |
| 5. | The Nightmare Before Christmas | Henry Selick | United States |
| 6. | Travolta and Me | Patricia Mazuy | France |
| 7. | L'Enfer | Claude Chabrol | France |
| 8. | Joan the Maiden | Jacques Rivette | France |
| 9. | US Go Home | Claire Denis | France |
| 10. | Coming to Terms with the Dead | Pascale Ferran | France |
| M. Butterfly | David Cronenberg | United States | |
2000s
| 2006 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Private Fears in Public Places | Alain Resnais | France |
| The Sun | Alexander Sokurov |  Russia | |
| 3. | The Host | Bong Joon-ho |  South Korea |
| 4. | Lady Chatterley | Pascale Ferran | France |
| 5. | A Perfect Couple | Nobuhiro Suwa | Japan France |
| 6. | Capote | Bennett Miller | United States |
| These Encounters of Theirs | Straub–Huillet | France Italy | |
| Lady in the Water | M. Night Shyamalan | United States | |
| 9. | The Departed | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| 10. | Flags of Our Fathers | Clint Eastwood | United States |
| The New World | Terrence Malick | United States | |
| 2007 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Paranoid Park | Gus Van Sant | United States |
| 2. | Death Proof | Quentin Tarantino | United States |
| Inland Empire | David Lynch | United States | |
| Still Life | Jia Zhangke |  China | |
| 5. | La France | Serge Bozon | France |
| Zodiac | David Fincher | United States | |
| 7. | Before I Forget | Jacques Nolot | France |
| Quixotic/Honor de Cavelleria or Honour of the Knights (Quixotic) | Albert Serra |  Spain | |
| Romance of Astree and Celadon | Éric Rohmer | France | |
| 10. | The Duchess of Langeais | Jacques Rivette | France |
| I Don't Want to Sleep Alone | Tsai Ming-liang |  Malaysia Taiwan | |
| Syndromes and a Century | Apichatpong Weerasethakul |  Thailand | |
| 2008 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Redacted | Brian De Palma | United States |
| 2. | Colossal Youth | Pedro Costa |  Portugal |
| 3. | Cloverfield | Matt Reeves | United States |
| 4. | No Country for Old Men | Coen brothers | United States |
| 5. | Two Lovers | James Gray | United States |
| 6. | Waltz With Bashir | Ari Folman |  Israel |
| 7. | Dernier maquis | Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche |  Algeria France |
| 8. | Hunger | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom |
| 9. | A Short Film About the Indio Nacional | Raya Martin |  Philippines |
| 10. | On War | Bertrand Bonello | France |
2010s
| 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country | Comment |
| 1. | Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade |  Germany Austria | First lone top spot for a female film-maker, Danièle Huillet shared the top spot in 1968 as part of the Straub–Huillet duo |
| 2. | Elle | Paul Verhoeven | France | 1st appearance |
| 3. | The Neon Demon | Nicolas Winding Refn |  Denmark France United States | 1st appearance |
| 4. | Aquarius | Kleber Mendonça Filho |  Brazil | 1st appearance |
| 5. | Slack Bay | Bruno Dumont | France | 4th appearance, 4th out of last 5 films cited |
| 6. | Julieta | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | 3rd appearance, last cited in 2002 |
| 7. | Staying Vertical | Alain Guiraudie | France | 3rd appearance, 3rd straight film cited |
| 8. | La Loi de La Jungle | Antonin Peretjatko | France | 1st appearance, one of only 2 films on the list that did not premiere at the Cannes Film Festival |
| 9. | Carol | Todd Haynes | United States | 2nd appearance, last cited in 1998 |
| 10. | Le Bois Dont Les Rêves Sont Faits | Claire Simon | France | 1st appearance, documentary, one of only 2 films on the list that did not premiere at the Cannes Film Festival |
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Itzkoff, Dave (9 February 2009) Cahiers Du Cinéma Will Continue to Publish The New York Times
- 1 2 3 Macnab, Geoffrey (7 April 2001) Pretentious, nous? The Guardian
- ↑ Ismaël Houdassine (6 December 2015). "Le magazine Séquences célèbre 60 ans de cinéma". Huffington Post (in French). Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ↑ Julian Wolfreys (2006). Modern European Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide. Edinburgh University Press. p. 398. ISBN 978-0-7486-2449-2. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ↑ Dowell, Ben (10 February 2009) "Le Monde sells influential cinema magazine Cahiers du Cinéma" The Guardian
Further reading
- Bickerton, E. (2009). A Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma. London: Verso.
- Hillier, Jim (1985). Cahiers du Cinema the 1950s. London : RKP/BFI.
- Hillier, Jim (1986) Cahiers du Cinema the 1960s. London: BFI.
External links
- Official website
- Top 10 list (for years 1951, 1955–1968, 1981–2009)
- Dave Kehr's Article on the magazine on its fiftieth anniversary
- Cahiers du Cinema Top 10 1951-2013 at the IMDb