ADIEU TO CAHIERS.

The author discusses the role of the journal "Cahiers du cinéma," in establishing cinema as the "seventh art." The journal was founded in 1951 under the editorship of André Bazin and helped in making cinema viewing a serious business. Playing an important role in formatting cinema as an art form, it still exists free from the clutches of mainstream cinema. Originally, the journal was a product of the brilliant flourishing of radical intellectual culture in the post-war era.