Biographie

Directed one Oscar nominated performance: Marie-Christine Barrault in Cousin cousine (1975).

Joined L'écran Français when he was nineteen, where he worked with Jean Renoir, Becker, and Grémillon. While with the magazine, he wrote about filmmakers, actors, films and met André Bazin, Nino Frank, Roger Leenhardt, Roger Thérond, and Alexandre Astruc. He became friends with Erich Von Stroheim, Anna Magnani and Vittorio de Sica.

Was President of the Cinémathèque Française from 2000-2003.

In 1948, Tacchella, along with Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Astruc, Claude Mauriac, René Clément, and Pierre Kast, established Objectif 49, an avant-garde film club whose president was Jean Cocteau. Objectif 49 became the birthplace of the New Wave cinema.

Created the monthly "Ciné Digest" with Henri Colpi.