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Jean Douchet
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Douchet in 2010
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| Born | 19 January 1929 Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France
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| Died | 22 November 2019 (aged 90) |
| Occupation | Film critic, teacher, film director |
| Years active | 1957–2019 |
Jean Douchet (19 January 1929 – 22 November 2019) was a French film director, historian, film critic, and teacher. He started his career in the early 1950s. He worked for film magazines like Gazette du Cinéma and Cahiers du cinéma. He was part of a group that later became known as the French New Wave in cinema.
His Life and Work
Jean Douchet was a journalist who wrote a lot about filmmakers. He focused on directors from the New Wave movement. He also wrote about famous directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard. He helped other film critics, like Serge Daney, start their careers.
Douchet also acted in small roles in films. He worked with directors such as Godard, François Truffaut, and Jacques Rivette. He taught at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques, a famous film school. Some of his students later became well-known directors themselves, like François Ozon.
He was also involved with the Cinémathèque Française, which is a French film archive and museum. He often hosted film screenings and special events there. In 2010, he made a short documentary called Claude et Éric. This film was an interview with Claude Chabrol about the early days of another director, Éric Rohmer.
Jean Douchet passed away on 22 November 2019, at the age of 90. The Cinémathèque Française announced his death.
Films He Directed
Jean Douchet directed several films, mostly short ones and documentaries. Here are some of his works:
- 1962 Le mannequin de Belleville (short film)
- 1965 Dim Dam Dom (TV series)
- 1965 Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Six in Paris (short film)
- 1967 Alexandre Astruc, l'ascendant taureau in Cinéastes de notre temps (TV series documentary)
- 1969 1969 Et crac (short film)
- 1970 Le dialogue des étudiantes (short film)
- 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 film)
- 2010 Claude et Éric (short film)
- 2015 Cher André S. Labarthe (short film)
Books He Wrote
Besides making films, Jean Douchet also wrote many books about cinema. These books often explored the history and art of filmmaking.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1967); reissued by Cahiers du cinéma in 1999
- The Art of Love (1987); reissued in 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.
See also
In Spanish: Jean Douchet para niños
