Jean Douchet (; 19 January 1929 – 22 November 2019) was a French film director, historian, film critic and teacher who began his career in the early 1950s at ''Gazette du Cinéma'' and ''

Cahiers du cinéma ''Cahiers du Cinéma'' (, ) is a French film magazine co-founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.Itzkoff, Dave (9 February 2009''Cahiers Du Cinéma Will Continue to Publish''The New York TimesMacnab, Ge ...

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Biography

As a journalist Douchet wrote extensively about New Wave filmmakers, as well as such directors as

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. He enabled

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to begin working for ''Cahiers''. He also acted in small roles for such directors as Godard, Rohmer,

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. He taught at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques and his students included Ozon,

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. He was also involved with the

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and regularly hosts screenings and events. For the Cinémathèque's 2010 tribute to the then recently deceased

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he made the documentary ''Claude et Éric'', an interview with

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about Rohmer's early days at ''Cahiers du cinéma''. On 22 November 2019 the

announced that Jean Douchet had died at age 90.

Filmography

*1962 ''Le mannequin de Belleville'' (short) *1965 ''

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'' (TV series) *1965 ''Saint-Germain-des-Prés'' in ''

Six in Paris ''Six in Paris'' (french: Paris vu par..., lit=Paris Seen By...) is a 1965 French comedy-drama anthology film. Cast and segments "Saint-Germain-des-Prés" Directed by Jean Douchet *Jean-Pierre Andréani as Raymond * Jean-François Chappey as Je ...

'' (short) *1967 ''Alexandre Astruc, l'ascendant taureau'' in ''Cinéastes de notre temps'' (TV series documentary) *1969 ''1969 Et crac'' (short) *1970 ''Le dialogue des étudiantes'' (short) *1978 ''En répétant Perceval'' in ''Ciné regards'' (TV series documentary) *1982 ''Le fantastique'' in ''Ciné parade'' (TV series documentary) *1985 ''Godard plus Godard'' in ''Étoiles et toiles'' (TV series documentary) *1987 ''Mankiewicz'' in ''Océaniques – Des idées des hommes des oeuvres'' (TV series documentary) *1994 ''Eric Rohmer – Preuves à l'appui'' in ''Cinéma, de notre temps'' (TV series documentary) *1996 ''La serva amorosa'' (feature film) *1997 ''Femmes chez Hitchcock'' (TV movie documentary) *2004 ''Vanités'' (video documentary short) *2009 ''À bicyclette'' (short) *2010 ''Claude et Éric'' (short) *2015 ''Cher André S. Labarthe'' (short)

Books

* ''Alfred Hitchcock'' (1967); ''Cahiers du cinéma'' 1999 * ''The Art of Love'' (1987); Small library reissue of ''Cahiers du cinéma'' 2003 * ''Paris cinema: a city view movies from 1895 to the present'', with Gilles Nadeau, May 1987 * ''Modernity film in question, the silent film a talking years'', with Rick Altman, The French Cinémathèque 1992 * ''The Theatre in the cinema'', the French Cinémathèque 1993 * ''New wave'', F. Hazan, 2004 * ''Paulo Rocha, Jean Douchet, Hugues Quester, Alain Bergala, Paulo Branco et al., order. João César Monteiro : against all fires, fire, my fire'', now Yellow 2004 * ''The DVDéothèque Jean Douchet'', Small library of Cahiers du Cinéma, 2006 * ''Jean Douchet, Man movie: interview with Joël Magny'', Writing, coll "Essays and Interviews", 2014.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Douchet, Jean 1929 births Film theorists French film directors 20th-century French journalists 21st-century French journalists French male screenwriters French screenwriters 2019 deaths People from Arras Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres French New Wave French film critics French film historians