No. 54 overallNo. 8 in Entertainment & Sport
Cahiers du Cinéma
The French film magazine that shaped modern film criticism and launched the New Wave.
82.7out of 1002026 score
Visit cahiersducinema.com2026 scorecard
Each criterion is scored from 0 to 10. The weighted total gives the score out of 100. How we score
- Editorial quality25%
- 8.9
- Influence20%
- 8.8
- Trust & transparency15%
- 8.7
- Design & craft15%
- 8.2
- Digital experience15%
- 7.0
- Reach10%
- 7.0
8.9 × 25% + 8.8 × 20% + 8.7 × 15% + 8.2 × 15% + 7.0 × 15% + 7.0 × 10% = 82.7
At a glance
- Founded
- 1951
- Publisher
- Les Cahiers du Cinéma SARL
- Ownership
- Since February 2020 owned by a group of about twenty business people and film producers, including Xavier Niel, Marc Simoncini and Grégoire Chertok, with no majority shareholder according to the editor. Most of the editorial staff resigned after the sale.
- Based in
- Paris, France
- Published
- Monthly (11 issues a year, with a combined July and August issue)
- Format
- Print and digital
- Language
- French
- Website
- cahiersducinema.com
Ranking history
How Cahiers du Cinéma has placed in each annual edition.
| Edition | Overall | In category | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | No. 54 | No. 8 in Entertainment & Sport | 82.7 | First edition |
About the magazine
French film magazine founded in April 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca, publishing film criticism, interviews and festival coverage. Several of its early critics, including François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, became French New Wave directors.
Sources for these facts
- foundeden.wikipedia.org
- publishercahiersducinema.com
- ownership (2020 investors)fr.wikipedia.org
- frequencycahiersducinema.com
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