From 1953 till 1983 he contributed regularly to Le Monde, supplying numerous film reviews along with interviews and investigative pieces. He served on several film festival juries (Berlin 1957, Cannes 1958 and 1963, and Venice 1961). At one stage he was a member of the organising committee for the Cannes Film Festival. He has also featured several times on French radio the arts and review programme "". He was an early contributor to Libération, originally a resistance newspaper, and was a founding member of .