Jean-Michel Frodon

Jean-Michel Frodon is a French journalist, film critic, writer and professor. He’s been senior editor on cinema for the weekly Le Point then the daily Le Monde and was Editorial Director of Cahiers du cinema (2003-2009). He now writes for Slate.fr and various printed or online publications in France, the United States, Spain, South Korea, the Balkans…. He is an Associated Professor at Sciences Po Paris, and an Honorary Professor at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He has been author or editor of many books, including La Projection nationale (1998), Conversation avec Woody Allen (2000), Hou Hsiao-hsien (2005), Horizon cinéma (2006), Le Cinéma chinois (2006), Robert Bresson (2008), Gilles Deleuze et les images (2008), La Critique de cinéma (2008), Amos Gitai, Genèses (2009), Cinema and the Shoah (2010), Le Cinéma d’Edward Yang (2010), Le Cinéma français, de la Nouvelle Vague à nos jours (2010), Assayas par Assayas (2014), L’Art du cinéma (2014), The World of Jia Zhangke (2015), Cinemas of Paris (2016), New York mis en scènes (2016), Chris Marker (2018), Abbas Kiarostami, l’œuvre ouverte (2021), Le Cinema à l'épreuve du divers (2021). He also works as an exhibition curator (Centre Pompidou, Cinematheque française) and as a programmer (MoMA, HFA, LUMA-Arles...).