Frédéric Bonnaud, born June 27, 1967, is the head of the

Cinémathèque française The Cinémathèque Française (), founded in 1936, is a French non-profit film organization that holds one of the largest archives of film documents and film-related objects in the world. Based in Paris's 12th arrondissement, the archive offers ...

and a French journalist. He was the head of

Les Inrockuptibles ''Les Inrockuptibles'' () is a French cultural magazine. Started as a monthly magazine in 1986, it became weekly in 1995. Now it is a monthly again, since 2021. In the beginning, rock and roll, rock music was the magazine's primary focus, though ...

from 2013 to 2015.

Biography

After starting his career as a cinema programmer in Paris, he became a cinema critic at Les Inrockuptibles. In 2006, he was offered to create a radio show on the French public radio

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. Quickly gaining public and critical praise, the show was nonetheless removed from antennas a year later, triggering an intense polemic and a strike of the journalists of

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. In August 2009, he joined Guillaume Durand on France 2 to participate in his program the subject of the scandal. He also holds on Europe 1 a daily chronicle dedicated to television. He continued his journalistic career, featuring in TV and radio shows, before taking the head of Les Inrocks in 2013 and being nominated by the President of the Republic as the head of La cinémathèque française in December 2015. He is the son of

Robert Bonnaud Robert Bonnaud (13 November 1929 – 22 January 2013) was a French anti-colonialist historian and professor of history at the Paris Diderot University. In 1957, following the advice of his friend Pierre Vidal-Naquet, he published in '' Esprit'' an ...

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