| General info : | | Michel Caen (born June 10, 1942 in Paris, France - died December 15, 2014 in Créteil, France (aged 72)) was a French journalist and film critic.
At the age of 20, Michel Caen founded, with some friends, the magazine Midi-Minuit Fantastique of which he served as co-editor-in-chief for ten years.
In 1969, he founded Zoom, which he managed until 1975.
L'Organe followed in that same year, then Vidéo News in 1979.
At the same time, he contributed to several publications such as: Lui, Playboy, Penthouse, Le Monde, Plexus, Cahiers du cinéma, Paris Match …
A cultural agitator with a passion for the unusual, he diversified his activities very early on. In the 1960s, he was a programmer for Étoile Distribution, where he favored previously unreleased films (Night of the Living Dead) or films that had been virtually invisible (Freaks, the uncut version of King Kong).
The following decade, he was an advisor at Luso France for the acquisition of American films (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre). Later, he produced CD-ROMs, notably Double Experience with Zara White.
In 2011, he teamed up with Nicolas Stanzick on the project of an expanded complete edition of Midi-Minuit Fantastique, which the latter proposed he produce as four volumes, each accompanied by a DVD. Together, they directed the first volume, released by Rouge Profond.
In March 2014 he signed his last text, an erotomaniac tribute to Sylvie Bréal, in volume 2, released in October 2015. | |
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