Philippe Azoury is a French journalist and film critic born in 1971. Contributor to the famous Cahiers du Cinéma magazine since 1998, Azoury has also written texts for publications such as Libération, Les Inrockuptibles, Vogue, and even Capricci, a bienal magazine dedicated to cinema. Currently, he is a journalist for Obsession, the Nouvel Observateur newspaper 's monthly cultural supplement.
He is the author of, along with Jean-Marc Lalanne, Fantômas, style moderne and Jean Cocteau et le cinéma: Desórdres, having received, for the latter work, the Philippe Arnaud Prize in 2003, which distinguishes works on cinema which reveal “audacious and original thought”. He published Stigma, in 2006, in collaboration with photographer Antoine D’Agata. On the occasion of the Werner Schroeter retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, in 2010, Azoury paid homage to the director A Werner Schroeter, qui n'avait pas peur de la mort. In 2012, he publishes a series of interviews with Adolpho Arrietta, Un morceau de ton rêve and signs, in the next year, the first essay on Philippe Garrel, Philippe Garrel en substance.