Entrevista a Eric Rohmer (Cahiers du Cinèma, 1970)

Link (Senses of Cinema)

By Pascal Bonitzer, Jean-Louis Comolli, Serge Daney and Jean Narboni

Las mejores películas de la década: Cahiers du Cinéma y Sight & Sound

Cahiers du Cinéma

1. Mulholland Drive – David Lynch
2. Elephant – Gus van Sant
3. Tropical Malady – Apichatpong Weerasethakul
4. The Host – Bong Joon-ho
5. A History of Violence – David Cronenberg
6. The Secret of the Grain – Abdelatif Kechiche
7. West of the Tracks – Wang Bing
8. War of the Worlds – Steven Spielberg
9. The New World – Terrence Malick
10. Ten – Abbas Kiarostami

Sight & Sound
(Orden Alfabético)

• Adaptation – Spike Jonze
• Battle in Heaven – Carlos Reygadas
• The Beat That My Heart Skipped – Jacques Audiard
• The Bourne Ultimatum – Paul Greengrass
• Caché – Michael Haneke
• Colossal Youth – Pedro Costa
• The Death of Mr. Lazarescu – Cristi Piu
• Éloge de l’amour – Jean-Luc Godard
• The Five Obstructions – Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth
• The Gleaners and I – Agnès Varda
• The Holy Girl – Lucrecia Martel
• Inland Empire – David Lynch
• In the Mood for Love – Wong Kar-Wai
• Memories of Murder – Bong Joon-ho
• Platform – Jia Zhangke
• Russian Ark – Aleksandr Sokurov
• The Son – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
• Spirited Away – Hayao Miyazaki
• Talk to Her – Pedro Almodovar
• Ten – Abbas Kiarostami
• There Will Be Blood – Paul Thomas Anderson
• 35 Shots of Rum – Claire Denis
• Touching the Void – Kevin Macdonald
• Tropical Malady – Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• United Red Army – Wakamatsu Koji
• Uzak – Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Waiting for Happiness – Abderramane Sissako
• Werckmeister Harmonies – Béla Tarr and Agnes Hranitzky
• Workingman’s Death – Michael Glawogger
• Yi Yi – Edward Yang

Top Ten 2009 para Cahiers du Cinéma

1. Les Herbes folles , Alain Resnais

2. Vincere , Marco Bellochio

3. Inglourious Basterds , Quentin Tarantino

4. Gran Torino , Clint Eastwood

5. Singularités d’une jeune fille blonde , Manoel de Oliveira

6. Tetro , de Francis Ford Coppola

7. Démineurs , Kathryn Bigelow

8. Le Roi de l’évasion , Alain Guiraudie

9. Tokyo Sonata , Kiyoshi Kurosawa

10. Hadewijch , Bruno Dumont

Es inminente la venta de Cahiers du Cinéma

From http://kinoslang.blogspot.com/

In May the media moguls of Le Monde announced that they were putting the Cahiers du Cinéma up for sale. At the moment there are really two likely buyers for the magazine:

1. Thierry Wilhelm, an investor in Mediart who wants to see the magazine continue to evolve as it has under Jean-Michel Frodon and Emmanuel Burdeau.

2. Les Inrockuptibles, whose editor was one of the group Frodon and Burdeau replaced ten years ago, Jean-Marc Lalanne. Here is a description of that option that has already appeared in the French press: "According to Frédéric Allary (directeur général of The Inrockuptibles), « the talent of Cahiers should extend to all imagesi». As far as he is concerned a review of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV would be perfectly appropriate. The period Lalanne spent at the
Cahiers already exemplified this broadening of the magazine's aims — too broad for some tastes. A wide open approach, open to video games, television and... reality tv. High treason? Perhaps. In any case, Lalanne, according to Allary, is pushing for a complete editorial makeover."

A return to the policies Lalanne advocates would be a return to the days when the Cahiers, chasing vainly after the "youth market," interviewed pornographers and video game designers. It would of course entail — this was announced last week — the dismissal of the people who replaced that "forward-looking group": Frodon and Burdeau, as well as at least one indispensable 20-year member of the staff. Grudges die hard in Parisian intellectual circles...

The project of an independent Cahiers financed by Wilhelm has the support of 90% of the current staff, as well as a varied roster of old and new collaborators, according to a statement published in Liberation:

PIERRE ALFERI, HERVÉ AUBRON, CHRISTOPHE BENEY, STÉPHANE BOUQUET, NICOLE BRENEZ, JEAN DOUCHET, CHARLOTTE GARSON, LAURENCE GIAVARINI, GILLES GRAND, BILL KROHN, LUDOVIC LAMANT, ELISABETH LEQUERET, ARNAUD MACÉ, PHILIPPE MANGEOT, THIERRY MÉRANGER, CYRIL NEYRAT, JEAN-PIERRE REHM, EUGENIO RENZI, ANTOINE THIRION, AXEL ZEPPENFELD.

Rédacteurs anciens : CÉDRIC ANGER, JACQUES AUMONT, FRANÇOIS BÉGAUDEAU, JACQUES BONTEMPS, CLAUDE CHABROL, MARC CHEVRIE, JEAN-LOUIS COMOLLI, SYLVAIN COUMOUL, MICHEL DELAHAYE, BERNARD EISENSCHITZ, JEAN-PAUL FARGIER, JEAN-ANDRÉ FIESCHI, JEAN-LUC GODARD, PASCAL KANÉ, ANDRÉ S. LABARTHE, JEAN-LOUIS LEUTRAT, SUZANNE LIANDRAT-GUIGUES, LUC MOULLET, JEAN NARBONI, SYLVIE PIERRE, JACQUES RANCIÈRE, FABRICE REVAULT (D’ALLONNES), JEAN LOUIS SCHEFER, BARBET SCHROEDER, LOUIS SKORECKI, XAVIER TRESVAUX, DOMINIQUE VILLAIN.

Le Monde, which is just interested in making the best deal possible, might not care about that list of supporters, but anyone who cares about the magazine will recognize the names.

Proposals are being presented to the seller on Monday, September 15. It would be only correct and appropriate for Les Inrockuptibles and Jean-Marc Lalanne to withdraw their proposal, which would engage the magazine on a backward course unrelated to the aims and standards that have made it an important magazine.