Frédéric Bonnaud (born 27 June 1967) is the head of the
Cinémathèque française
A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library (bibliothèque in French), a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typically ...
and a French journalist. He was the head of
Les Inrockuptibles
''Les Inrockuptibles'' (), abbreviated as ''Les Inrocks'', is a French cultural magazine. Started as a monthly in 1986, it became weekly in 1995. As of 2021, it returned to a monthly format. In the beginning, rock music was the magazine's prim ...
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
France Inter
France Inter () is a French public radio channel and part of Radio France.
It is the successor to Paris Inter, later known as France I, and created as a merger of the France I and France II networks, first as RTF Inter in October 1963, then ren ...
. 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
Radio France
Radio France () is the French national public radio broadcaster.
Stations
Radio France offers seven national networks:
*France Inter — Radio France's "generalist media, generalist" station, featuring entertaining and informative talk mixed wi ...
.
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.
References
French journalists
1967 births
Living people
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