Cahiers du cinéma is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Lo Duca. It was a development from the earlier magazine Revue du Cinéma and the members of two Paris film clubs - Objectif 49 (Bresson, Cocteau and Alexandre Astruc, etc.) and Ciné-Club du Quartier Latin. Initially edited by Eric Rohmer (Maurice Scherer) it included amongst its writers Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut. For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... Global Metrics Human security Major Armed Conflicts: Total Deaths in Battle: 700,000 people Violent Deaths caused by Government (Other than War): Violent Deaths caused by other humans: Juvenile Violent Crime: Political security Nations Holding Multi-party Elections: Percentage Living under a Fully Democratic System of Governance: Free Countries: Percentage... Andr Bazin (April 18, 1918–November 11, 1958) was a famous and influential French film critic and film theorist. ... Robert Bresson (September 25, 1901–December 18, 1999) was a French film director and master of minimalism. ... Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889–October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, and filmmaker. ... Eric Rohmer (born 1920) is a French film director He was born in Nancy, France. ... Jacques Rivette (born March 1, 1928) is a French film director. ... Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard (born December 3, 1930) was one of the most influential members of the nouvelle vague. ... Claude Chabrol (born June 24, 1930) is a French movie director and has become well_known in the 40 years since his first film, Le Beau Serge, for his chilling tales of murder, including Le Boucher. ... François Truffaut François Roland Truffaut (February 6, 1932–October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry. ...

The critical writing of Cahiers re-invented the basic tenets of film theory (auteurs, mise en scène, la critique des beautés etc.) and film scholarship - establishing the 'value' of the Hollywood films of Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks then directors including Robert Aldrich, Nicholas Ray, Fritz Lang, and Anthony Mann, as well as Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini, Kenji Mizoguchi, Max Ophuls, and Jean Cocteau. While also attacking the existing French directors (La qualité francaise - novelization, over-elaboration etc.). The magazine also created the Nouvelle Vague or New Wave of French cinema, which was largely directed by ex-writers of the magazine. Film theory seeks to develop concise, systematic concepts that apply to the study of film/cinema as art. ... The Auteur Theory is a way of reading and appraising films through the imprint of an auteur (French: author), usually meant to be the director. ... Film theory seeks to develop concise, systematic concepts that apply to the study of film/cinema as art. ... For other uses, see Hollywood (disambiguation) Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the City of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that runs from about Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to... Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British film director closely associated with the suspense genre. ... Howard Hawks (May 30, 1896 - December 26, 1977) was one of the more critically acclaimed directors of the Classic Hollywood Era. ... Robert Aldrich (August 9, 1918 - December 5, 1983) was a United States film director, writer and producer notable for a number of films including What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and The Dirty Dozen. ... Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle) (August 7, 1911 - June 16, 1979) was an American film director. ... Friedrich Anton Christian Lang (December 5, 1890 - August 2, 1976) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the most famous emigrés from Germanys school of expressionism to work in Hollywood. ... Anthony Mann (1906-1967) was born Emil Anton Bundmann in Port Loma, California. ... Jean Renoir (September 15, 1894-February 12, 1979), born in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France was a film director. ... Roberto Rossellini (May 8, 1906 - June 3, 1977), was an Italian film director. ... Kenji Mizoguchi (溝口 健二 Mizoguchi Kenji; May 16, 1898 – August 24, 1956) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. ... Max Ophüls (May 6, 1902 - March 25, 1957) was a German born film director. ... Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889–October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, and filmmaker. ... The New Wave (French: Nouvelle vague) of French cinema was a cinematic movement of the 1960s. ...

After being reactionary and isolated in the 1950s the replacement of Rohmer by Jacques Rivette in 1963 meant that the magazine staff were more sensitive to political and social trends as well as responding more to non-Hollywood films. The style moved through literary modernism in the early 1960s to radicalism and "dialectical materialism" by 1970 and through the mid-70s the magazine was run by a Maoist collective. A return to more commercial perspectives in the late 1970s, marked by a review of Jaws, and a more organised turnover of editors (Serge Daney, Serge Toubiana, Thierry Jousse, Antoine de Baecque, and Charles Tesson) meant the rehabilitation of some of the old Cahiers favourites as well as some new names (like de Oliveira, Raúl Ruíz, Hsiao-hsien, Chahine, and Pialat). More recent writers have included Serge Daney, Serge Toubiana, Thierry Jousse, Antoine de Baecque, Charles Tesson and Franck Nouchi, Andre Techine, Leos Carax, Olivier Assayas, Danièle Dubroux, and Serge Le Peron. Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. ... Events January-February January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. ... Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ... Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought (Chinese: 毛澤東思想, pinyin: Máo Zédōng Sīxiǎng), also called Marxism-Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought or Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM), is a variant of communism derived from the teachings of Mao Zedong (1893–1976). ... This article is about the movie; for other uses of the term, see jaws (disambiguation). ... Serge Daney (1944 - 1992) was an influential French movie critic who went on from writing film reviews to developing a “television criticism” and onto building a personal theory of the image. ... Maurice Pialat (August 21, 1925 - January 11, 2003) was a French film director and actor. ... Serge Daney (1944 - 1992) was an influential French movie critic who went on from writing film reviews to developing a “television criticism” and onto building a personal theory of the image. ... Olivier Assayas (born January 25, 1955) is a French film director and screenwriter. ...

In 1998, the Editions de l'Etoile (the company publishing Cahiers) was acquired by the press group Le Monde. Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper with a circulation in 2002 of 389,200. ...

External Links

• Official website (http://www.cahiersducinema.com) (offers only the last issue)
• Top 10 list (http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/cahiers.html) (for years 1951, 1955-1968, 1981-2002)