“Cinéphiles everywhere greeted with alarm the news this February that Cahiers du Cinéma, the most venerable film magazine in the world, had been sold to the English art publisher Phaidon. … No other magazine has proved so extravagantly, and for so long, that film criticism can be vital to filmmaking. Last week’s announcement that Phaidon had appointed Stéphane Delorme as the new editor quieted anxieties.”