A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France
Born:
January 19, 1929
Died:
November 22, 2019
Jean Douchet (January 19, 1929 – November 22, 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 cinema with members of the future French New Wave. 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 taught at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques and his students included Ozon, Émilie Deleuze and Xavier Beauvois. He was 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. On November 22, 2019, the Cinémathèque Française announced that Jean Douchet had died at age 90. Source: Article "Jean Douchet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Director:
1962 Le mannequin de Belleville
1965 Saint-Germain-des-Prés
1965 Six in Paris
1967 Alexandre Astruc, l'ascendant taureau
1969 Et crac…!
1969 Postface à Tire-au-Flanc
1972 La jeune femme et la mort
1987 Titus-Carmel, un profil
1994 Éric Rohmer, preuves à l’appui
1996 La serva amorosa
2009 À bicyclette
Screenplay:
1962 Le mannequin de Belleville
1965 Saint-Germain-des-Prés
1965 Six in Paris
1967 Alexandre Astruc, l'ascendant taureau
1969 Et crac…!
1969 Postface à Tire-au-Flanc
1972 La jeune femme et la mort
1987 Titus-Carmel, un profil
1994 Éric Rohmer, preuves à l’appui
1996 La serva amorosa
2009 À bicyclette
Writer:
1962 Le mannequin de Belleville
1965 Saint-Germain-des-Prés
1965 Six in Paris
1967 Alexandre Astruc, l'ascendant taureau
1969 Et crac…!
1969 Postface à Tire-au-Flanc
1972 La jeune femme et la mort
1987 Titus-Carmel, un profil
1994 Éric Rohmer, preuves à l’appui
1996 La serva amorosa
2009 À bicyclette
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