In 1968, he entered a film competition with the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, but it was cancelled due to the events of May 68. In 1970, he left Seghers and joined . Five years later, he became an independent publisher and reprised "Cinéma d'aujourd'hui" and created several other collections. When "Cinéma d'aujourd'hui" was re-released in 1979, it was once again hailed by critics in the "Revue du cinéma". He stopped self-publishing in 1988 and joined upper management at Éditions des Quatre-Vents. He would sign several books and assist in the publishing of books by Jean Vigo and Louis Delluc. In 2012, he published the first volume of "Annales du cinéma français". Critic called it a "modest and ambitious" project which constitutes a "sum of intelligent erudition", and Laurent Aknin called it a "work of reference for all to order first". He became Editor-in-Chief of "Présence du cinéma français" and created the bookstore Contacts in 1955, which closed its doors in 2013.