Bertrand Tavernier a dueling bibliography Cahiers vs Positif 1960 to 1973.

A simple bibliography of Bertrand Tavernier's writings published at Cahiers du Cinema or Positif up until his breakthrough into film directing in 1973.

Review -- Time Without Pity Positif 35 Jul-Aug 1960
Who Is Hubert Cornfield Positif 36 Nov 1960 (with P-L Thirard)
Interview with Edgar G. Ulmer Cahiers du Cinema 122 Aug 1961
Belgian Previews (Reviews-- "Porgy and Bess", "Spartacus") Positif 41 Sep 61
Interview with Jean-Pierre Melville Cahiers du Cinema 124 Oct 1961
Belgique Cahiers du Cinema 127 Jan 1962
Review -- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Cahiers du Cinema 128 Feb 1962
Encounter with Phillip Yordan Cahiers du Cinema 128 Feb 1962
Review -- Atom Age Vampire Cahiers du Cinema 129 Mar 1962
Review -- Gold of the Seven Saints Cahiers du Cinema 132 Jun 1962
The Singer, not the Song Cahiers du Cinema 132 Jun 1962
Letter from Brussells Cahiers du Cinema 132 Jun 1962
Otto Preminger Press Conference Cahiers du Cinema 133 Jul 1962
Introducing Richard Quine Cahiers du Cinema 133 Jul 1962
Review -- Bonne Chance Charlie Cahiers du Cinema 135 Sep 1962
Review -- Two Loves Cahiers du Cinema 136 Oct 1962
Review -- Guns of the Black Witch Cahiers du Cinema 136 Oct 1962
Review -- Man with a Star/War and Peace (King Vidor retrospective) Cahiers du Cinema 136 Oct 1962
Review -- Le Combat dan l'Ile Cahiers du Cinema 137 Nov 1962
Interview with Jean-Luc Godard Cahiers du Cinema 138 Dec 1962 (with Jean Collet, Michel Delahaye, Jean-André Fieschi and André Labarthe)
Interview with Claude Chabrol Cahiers du Cinema 138 Dec 1962(with Jean Collet, Michel Delahaye, Jean-André Fieschi and André Labarthe)
Interview with Francois Truffaut Cahiers du Cinema 138 Dec 1962(with Jean Collet, Michel Delahaye, Jean-André Fieschi and André Labarthe)
Annotated Filmography of Howard Hawks (BT annotates "The Criminal Code") Cahiers du Cinema 139 Jan 1963
Petit Journal du Cinema -- Letter from London Cahiers du Cinema 140 Feb 1963
Petit Journal du Cinema -- Alan Dwan Cahiers du Cinema 140 Feb 1963
Review -- The Errand Boy Cahiers du Cinema141 Mar 1963
Extracts of Correspondence with Delmer Daves Positif 50 Mar 1963
Petit Journal du Cinema -- Howard Hawks note Cahiers du Cinema 142 Apr 1963
Petit Journal du Cinema -- Richard Quine note Cahiers du Cinema 142 Apr 1963
Petit Journal du Cinema -- In memoriam, John Farrow and Jack Carson Cahiers du Cinema 142 Apr 1963
Interview with Stanley Donen Cahiers du Cinema 143 May 1963
Cannes: a week for the critic -- BT reviews "Balcony", "David and Lisa" and "Ningen" Cahiers du Cinema 145 Jul 1963
Cannes: a week for the critic BT reviews "The Baby Carriage", de Bo Widerberg (Suède) Cahiers du Cinema 145 Jul 1963
Cannes: a week for the critic BT reviews "The Sun in a Net", Cahiers du Cinema 145 Jul 1963
Cannes: a week for the critic -- BT reviews "Otoshiana" Cahiers du Cinema 145 Jul 1963
90 American Producers -- thumbnail critiques of 90 American film producers (with Patrick Brion) Cahiers du Cinema 150/151 Dec63/Jan64
60+60+1 Directors BT contributes critiques of 14 American directors Cahiers du Cinema 150/151 Dec63/Jan64
The Secret Museum Cahiers du Cinema 150/151 Dec63/Jan64
Interview with Jane Fonda (with Pierre Kast and Jacques Donoil-Valcroze) Cahiers du Cinema 150/151 Dec63/Jan64
Corman speaks -- Interview Positif 59 Mar 1964 (with Bernard Eisenschitz and C Wikking)
Transoceanic Interview with Budd Boetticher Cahiers du Cinema 157 Jul 1964
Mamoulian Speaks Positif 64-65 Rentrée 1964 (with Jean Douchet)
Review -- 'In the French Style" Positif 64-65 Rentrée 1964
Questions asked Tay Garnett Positif 64-65 Rentrée 1964
Anthony Mann (short interview) Cahiers du Cinema 186 Jan 1967
Review -- "The Bobo" Cahiers du Cinema188 March 1967
Meet Mr Mainwaring Cahiers du Cinema 189 Apr 1967
Interview with Howard Hawks Cahiers du Cinema 192 Jul 1967
Encounter with Paul Wendkos Cahiers du Cinema 195 Nov 1967
Encounter with Andre de Toth Cahiers du Cinema 197 Jan 1968
John Ford in Paris Notes of a Press-Agent Positif 81 Feb 1968
Review -- Quartermass and the Pit Cahiers du Cinema 200/201 Apr/May 1968
Interview -- Richard Brooks Positif 95 May 1968
Encounter with Richard Widmark Positif 95 May 1968 (with Michel Ciment)
Review -- Attack on the Iron Coast Positif 97 Sep 1968
Review -- Mon Fils, Cet Incompris Positif 98 Oct 1968
Review -- The Court-Martial of Sgt. Ryker Positif 98 Oct 1968
Interview with Vittorio Cottafavi Positif 101 Dec 1968/Jan 1969
I Even Met Lusty Turks Positif 102 Feb 1969
A Letter from Brussels and London Positif 102 Feb 1969
Interview -- Carl Foreman Positif 102 Feb 1969
Review -- Blue Positif 103 Mar 1969
Interview -- Joseph Losey Positif 104 Apr 1969
Review -- Survival 67 Positif 104 Apr 1969
Interview -- Robert Benayoun Positif 105 May 1969
Interview -- Robert Parrish Positif 105 May 1969
Review -- Sebastien Positif 105 May 1969
Review -- La Dernier Face a Face Positif 106 Jun 1969
Review -- Le Diable par la Queue Positif 106 Jun 1969
Interview with Herbert Biberman Positif 107 Summer 1969
The Lusty Cannois Positif 107 Summer 1969 (with Claudine [Colo] Tavernier)
Interview with Gordon Douglas Positif 108 Sep 1969 (with Roger Tailleur)
Interview with Edward Chodorov Positif 108 Sep 1969
Interview with Budd Boetticher Positif 110 Nov 1969 (with Michel Ciment, Bernard Cohn, and Louis Seguin)
Interview with Stanley Donen Positif 111 Dec1968Jan1969 (with [Claudine]Colo Tavernier)
Words from Kirk Douglas Positif 112 Feb 1970 (with Michel Ciment)
Debate on Cinema and Politics in 1969 Positif 113 Mar 1970 (with Robert Benayoun, Albert Bolduc, Michel Ciment, Jacques Demeure, Louis Seguin, Roger Tailleur, Paul-Louis Thirard)
Interview -- Abraham Polonsky Positif 114 Apr 1970 (with Michel Ciment)
Interview -- John Huston Positif 116 Jun 1970 (with Rui Nogueira)
Interview -- Franklin Schaffner Positif 117 Jul 1970 (with Michel Ciment and Frederic Vitoux)
French Cinema of the 1930s Positif117 Jul 1970
Interview -- Michael Wadleigh - Woodstock Positif 118 Aug 1970 (with Michel Ciment)
D W Griffith is doing well. I am too. Thank you. Positif 120 Oct 1970
Interview -- John Frankenheimer I Positif 122 Dec 1970 (with Michel Ciment)
Review -- Barquero Positif 123 Jan 1970
Interview -- John Frankenheimer II Positif 124 Feb1971 (with Michel Ciment)
The Contradictions of William Wellman Positif 124 Feb 1971
Review -- The Learning Tree Positif 127 May 1971
Cannes 1971 -- (BT reviews "The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach" and "The Murder of Fred Hampton") Positif 130 Sep 1971
Murmurs in a Far-off Corridor (about Jacques Tourneur) Positif 132 Nov 1971
Remarks from Jacques Tourneur (collected and annotated by BT) Positif 132 Nov 1971
Book Review -- The Director's Event (Eric Sherman and Martin Rubin)/Horizon West (Jim Kitses)/Science Fiction in the Cinema (John Baxter) Positif 133 Dec 1971
On Henry Leopold de Fienne called Henry Hathaway Positif 135 Feb 1972
Interview -- Henry Hathaway Positif 136 Mar 1972 (with Michel Ciment)
Interview -- Robert Altman Positif 147 Feb 1973 (with Michel Ciment)
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BT also contribute to Cahiers du Cinema yearly "10 Best Films" feature for 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966 and a list of "Ten Best American Films of the Sound Era" for the special "American Cinema" issue no. 150/151 Dec63/Jan64.
BT was a panelist on Cahiers "conseil des dix" on two occasions (Sep61 and Aug62).
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The bulk of BT's film reviews were shorter reviews that were printed either in Positif's "From A to Z section" or Cahiers' "Notes on Other Films" and later "Films Released Last Month in Paris" sections. His longer reviews were The Errand Boy (Cahiers) and Time without Pity, In the French Style, and Silvio Narizzano's Blue. Also, the article "D W Griffith is doing well. I am too. Thank you." could be considered a review of the films MASH, Woodstock and The Molly Maguires.
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The literature discussing Tavernier's time as a critic usually makes statements such as "Tavernier was historically linked with Positif", or "most of his major critical pieces appeared in Positif and he is often associated with Positif in the same way that Godard and Truffaut are considered Cahiers directors" or that Tavernier wrote for "Cahiers du cinéma during Rohmer's reign." (Eric Rohmer edited Cahiers from 1960 to 1963)
As can be seen here, Tavernier contributed 43 pieces to Cahiers between 1961 and 1968, while he made 52 contributions to Positif between 1960 and 1973. However, 43 of those contributions to Positif occur after he stopped contributing to Cahiers. His career as a critic thus breaks down into a Cahiers period of about 7 years followed by a Positif that lasts up until he turns to direction. It does not appear that at either magazine he was ever considered staff. Speculation alert - I suspect that the seven articles that were printed by Positif after he commenced contributing to Cahiers were pieces that he prepared for Cahiers but which although they merited publication were not accepted at Cahiers. The magazine in its yellow cover days was small in size (6"x10") and rather thin (62 to 64 pages until Nov 1963 and 78 to 80 pages from them on until November 1964 when he went to the larger, thicker format). And after the success of Truffaut, Godard and Chabrol, there was no lack of young film critics who wanted to write for Cahiers. Thus, there had to have been a mountain of submissions chasing a little bit of space and much worthy material would have been picked up elsewhere.
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Tavernier's 43 articles in Cahiers outdistances the 21 submissions accepted of Claude Chabrol, and his alter egos, Jean-Yves Goute and Charles Eitel between 1953 and 1963. And it is not too far behind the 73 contributions of Jean-Luc Godard/Hans Lucas between 1952 and 1967.
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And why did he finally jump ship from Cahiers to Positif in the spring of 1968. A quick look at the table of contents for the Apr/May 1968 issue of Cahiers suggests an answer. BT's stock in trade was American Cinema and it appears that as Cahiers begins it leftward lurch it no longer has any interest in interviews with Richard Brooks or encounters with Richard Widmark.
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