Cahiers interviews --- "yellow cover" era

In April 1951, Cahiers du Cinema commenced publication with the yellow cover that would be its signature until the November 1964 issue. In late 1953, Jacques Rivette and François Truffaut visted Jacques Becker carrying with them a new Grundig tape recorder. In that early period the transcribed "rencontre" or "entretien" defined the magazine as much as the yellow cover.

Feb 1954 No.32
Jacques Becker ----- François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette

Apr 1954 No. 34 (part 1)
May 1954 No. 35 (part 2)
Jean Renoir ----- François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette

Jun 1954 No. 36
Luis Bunuel ----- André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Jul 1954 No. 37
Roberto Rosselini ----- François Truffaut, Maurice Scherer (Eric Rohmer)

Jan 1955 No.43
Abel Gance ----- François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette

Feb 1955 No. 44
Alfred Hitchcock ----- François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol

Mar 1955 No. 45
John Ford ----- Jean Mitry

Apr 1955 No.46 (part 1)
May 1955 No. 47 (part 2)
Jules Dassin ----- François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol

Jun 1955 No. 48
Carl Dreyer ----- Lotte Eisner

Dec 1955 No.53
Norman MacLaren ----- Robin Jon Joachim

Feb 1956 No. 56
Howard Hawks ----- Jacques Becker, Jacques Rivette, Francois Truffaut

Sep 1956 No. 62
Alfred Hitchcock ----- Charles Bitsch, François Truffaut

Nov 1956 No. 64
Robert Aldrich ----- François Truffaut

Dec 1956 No. 65
Joshua Logan ----- Charles Bitsch, Jacques Rivette

Mar 1957 No. 69
Anthony Mann ----- Charles Bitsch, Claude Chabrol

Apr 1957 No. 70
Gerd Oswald ----- Claude Chabrol

May 1957 No. 71
Jacques Flaud ----- André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Jun 1957 No. 72
Max Ophuls ----- Jacques Rivette, François Truffaut

Jul 1957 No. 73
Stanley Kubrick ----- Raymond Haine

Aug/Sep 1957 No. 74
Vincente Minelli ----- Charles Bitsch, Jean Domarchi

Oct 1957 No. 75
Robert Bresson ----- transcribed Cannes press conference (see endnote)

Special Jean Renoir No. 78
Jean Renoir ----- Jacques Rivette, François Truffaut

Apr 1958 No. 82
Robert Aldrich ----- François Truffaut

May 1958 No. 83
Jacques Tati ----- André Bazin, François Truffaut

Jun 1958 No. 84
Orson Welles ----- André Bazin, Charles Bitsch

Jul 1958 No. 85
Gene Kelly ----- Charles Bitsch, Jacques Rivette

Aug 1958 No. 86
Buster Keaton ----- John Schmitz

Sep 1958 No. 87
Orson Welles ----- André Bazin, Charles Bitsch, Jean Domarchi

Oct 1958 No. 88
Ingmar Bergman ----- Jean Beranger

Nov 1958 No. 89
Nicholas Ray ----- Charles Bitsch

Feb 1959 No. 92
Richard Brooks ----- Charles Bitsch

Mar 1959 No. 93
Luchino Visconti ----- Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Jean Domarchi

Apr 1959 No. 94
Roberto Rossellini ----- Fereydoun Hoveyda, Jacques Rivette

Sep 1959 No. 99
Fritz Lang ----- Jean Domarchi, Jacques Rivette

Nov 1959 No. 101
Georges Franju ----- François Truffaut

Dec 1959 No. 102
Alfred Hitchcock ----- Jean Domarchi, Jean Douchet

Feb 1960 No. 104
Robert Bresson ----- Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Jean-Luc Godard

Mar 1960 No. 105
Frederic Ermler ----- Georges Sadoul

Apr 1960 No. 106
Luchino Visconti ----- Jean Slavik

Jul 1960 No. 109
Jean Cocteau ----- Jean Domarchi, Jean-Luis Laugier

Sep 1960 no. 111
Joseph Losey ----- Michel Fabre, Pierre Rissient

Oct 1960 No. 112
Michelangelo Antonioni ----- André S Labarthe

Jan 1961 No. 115
George Cukor ----- Jean Domarchi, Eric Rohmer

Feb 1961 No. 116
Alexander Astruc ----- Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer

Jul 1962 No. 121
Otto Preminger ----- Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Eric Rohmer

Aug 1961 No. 122
Edgar Ulmer ----- Luc Moullet, Bertrand Tavernier

Sep 1961 No. 123
Alain Resnais &
Alain Robbe-Grillet ----- André Labarthe, Jacques Rivette

Oct 1961 No. 124
Jean-Pierre Melville ----- Claude Beylie, Bertrand Tavernier

Nov 1961 No. 125
Serge Youtkevich ----- Louis Marcorelles, Eric Rohmer

Jan 1962 No. 127
Nicholas Ray ----- Jean Douchet, Jacques Joly

Feb 1962 No. 128
Vincente Minnelli ----- Jean Domarchi, Jean Douchet

Feb 1962 No. 128
Phillip Yordan ----- Bertrand Tavernier

Mar 1962 No. 129
Roger Planchon ----- Claude Gauteur

Apr 1962 No. 130
Elia Kazan ----- Jean Domarchi, André Labarthe

May 1962 No. 131
Gian Vittorio Baldi ----- André Labarthe, Louis Marcorelles

Jul 1962 No. 133
Roberto Rossellini ----- Jean Domarchi, Jean Douchet, Feroun Hoveyda

Aug 1962 No.134
Billy Wilder ----- Jean Domarchi, Jean Douchet

Aug 1962 No. 134
Richard Quine ----- Bertrand Tavernier, Yves Boisset

Sep 1962 No. 135
Henri Langlois ----- Eric Rohmer, Michel Mardore

Oct 1962 No. 136
King Vidor ----- Luc Moullet, Michel Delahaye

Nov 1962 No. 137
Roger Leenhardt ----- Jean Collet

Dec 1962 No. 138 special "New Wave" issue
Claude Chabrol ----- Jean Collet, Michel Delahaye, Jean-André Fieschi, Andre Labarthe, Bertrand Tavernier

Dec 1962 No. 138 special "New Wave" issue
Jean-Luc Godard ----- Jean Collet, Michel Delahaye, Jean-André Fieschi, Andre Labarthe, Bertrand Tavernier

Dec 1962 No. 138 special "New Wave" issue
François Truffaut ----- Jean Collet, Michel Delahaye, Jean-André Fieschi, Andre Labarthe, Bertrand Tavernier

Feb 1963 No. 140
Robert Bresson ----- Yves Kovacs

Feb 1963 No. 140
Robert Drew &
Richard Leacock ----- Louis Marcorelles, André Labarthe

Feb 1963 No. 140
Arthur Penn ----- André Labarthe

Apr 1963 No. 142
John Houseman ----- Penelope Houston

May 1963 No. 143
Stanley Donen ----- Bertrand Tavernier, Daniel Palas

Jun 1963 No. 144
Jean Rouch ----- Eric Rohmer, Louis Marcorelles

Jul 1963 No. 145
Roberto Rossellini ----- Fereydoun Hoveyda, Eric Rohmer

Sep 1963 No. 147
Alfred Hitchcock ----- François Truffaut

Sep 1963 No. 147
Roland Barthes ----- Michel Delahaye, Jacques Rivette

Sep 1963 No. 147
Leon Shamroy ----- Jean Douchet

Oct 1963 No. 148
Richard Griffith ----- Herman Weinberg

Nov 1963 No. 149
Georges Franju ----- Jean-André Fieschi, André Labarthe

Dec 63/Jan 64 No.150-151 special American Cinema issue
Stanley Kramer ----- Claude Makovski, Michèle Manceaux, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Dec 63/Jan 64 No.150-151 special American Cinema issue
Jane Fonda ----- Pierre Kast, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Bertrand Tavernier

Feb 1964 No. 152
Pierre Boulez ----- Jacques Rivette, François Weyergans

Mar 1964 No. 153
Joseph Losey ----- Paul Mayersberg, Mark Shivas

Mar 1964 No. 153
Shirley Clarke ----- Axel Madsen

Apr 1964 No. 154
Raoul Walsh ----- Jean-Louis Noames

May 1964 No. 155
Jacques Demy ----- Michel Caen, Alain Le Bris

May 1964 No. 155
Rod Serling ----- Axel Madsen

Jun 1964 No. 156
Claude Levi-Strauss ----- Michel Delahaye, Jacques Rivette

Jun 1964 No. 156
Fritz Lang ----- Jean-Louis Noames

Jul 1964 No. 157
Budd Boeticcher ----- Bertrand Tavernier

Jul 1964 No. 157
Ermanno Olmi ----- Leonard H Gmür

Aug/Sep 1964 No. 158
Kawaguchi Matsutaro
Mr Takagi
Mizutani Hiroshi
Tanaka Kinuyo
Yoda Yoshikata & Miyagawa Kazuo
Mr Tsugi----- Ariane Mnouchkine
six interviews about Kenji Mizoguchi

Aug/Sep 1964 No.158
Yoda Yoshikata & Itoh Daisuke ----- Georges Sadoul
another interview about Mizoguchi but from 1946

Aug/Sep 1964 No.158
Bo Widerberg ----- Jean Béranger

Oct 1964 No. 159
Louis Lumiére ----- Georges Sadoul
originally from 1946

Oct 1964 No.159
Sam Peckinpah ----- Axel Madsen

At the press conference at Cannes in May 1957 which Cahiers printed in October 1957, Bresson was questioned by among others André Bazin, Georges Sadoul, Louis Marcorelles, François Truffaut, R-M Arlaud, Denis Marion, and J-L Tallenay.

In the late 50s and early 60s, Cahiers would often print a tableau that listed their interviews. However, some errors and discrepencies seem to have picked up along the way.

The tableau published in issue 132 June 1962 seem so have the following errors.

The interviews with Norman MacLaren (Dec 1955), Jacques Flaud (May 1957) and Buster Keaton (Aug 1958) are omitted.

The Vincente Minnelli interview listed as issue 75 appeared in issue 74 and there is no Minnelli interview in issue 104.

Interviews with Alexander Astruc and Kenji Mizoguchi are listed for issue 117. There are none in that issue. (Astruc was interviewed in issue 116)

The interview listed for John Cassavetes in issue 119 appears to be a translation of an aritcle either written by Cassavetes for "Films and Filming" or a transcription of a speech which he gave.