Jean Douchet

Jean Douchet
Born (1929-01-19)19 January 1929
Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France
Occupation Film critic, teacher, Film director
Years active 1957-present

Jean Douchet (French: [duʃɛ]; born 19 January 1929) is a French film director, historian, film critic and teacher who began his career in the early 1950s at Gazette du Cinéma and Cahiers du cinema with members of the future French New Wave.

Biography

As a journalist Douchet wrote extensively about New Wave filmmakers, as well as such directors as Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Kenji Mizoguchi, Vincente Minnelli, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Daniel Pollet. He enabled Serge Daney to begin working for Cahiers. He also acted in small roles for such directors as Godard, Rohmer, François Truffaut, Jean Eustache, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Pierre Lefebvre and François Ozon. He has taught at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques and his students included Ozon, Émilie Deleuze and Xavier Beauvois. He is also involved with the Cinémathèque Française and regularly hosts screenings and events. For the Cinémathèque's 2010 tribute to the then recently deceased Éric Rohmer he made the documentary Claude et Éric, an interview with Claude Chabrol about Rohmer's early days at Cahiers du cinema.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Filmography

Books

References

  1. Jean Douchet compte parmi ceux qui savent transmettre aux autres leur savoir et leur amour du cinéma… La clarté du propos, l'érudition de Douchet nous font pénétrer aisément dans le monde de l'art cinématographique… France Culture.com en archives
  2. Regnier, Isabelle (August 13, 2013). "La pépinière du 'jeune cinéma français'". Le Monde.
  3. Jean Douchet L'homme cinéma, Écriture, Paris, 2014.
  4. "L'Art d'aimer". Why Not Productions. December 5, 2012.
  5. cinemathequedebourgogne.com
  6. "Soirée en hommage à Eric Rohmer". Cinémathèque Française. February 8, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
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