Jean Douchet
Jean Douchet 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 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 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 cinéma.On 22 November 2019 the Cinémathèque Française announced that Jean Douchet had died at age 90.
Filmography
- 1962 Le mannequin de Belleville
- 1965 Dim Dam Dom
- 1965 Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Six in Paris
- 1967 Alexandre Astruc, l'ascendant taureau in Cinéastes de notre temps
- 1969 1969 Et crac
- 1970 Le dialogue des étudiantes
- 1978 En répétant Perceval in Ciné regards
- 1982 Le fantastique in Ciné parade
- 1985 Godard plus Godard in Étoiles et toiles
- 1987 Mankiewicz in Océaniques – Des idées des hommes des oeuvres
- 1994 Eric Rohmer – Preuves à l'appui in Cinéma, de notre temps
- 1996 La serva amorosa
- 1997 Femmes chez Hitchcock
- 2004 Vanités
- 2009 À bicyclette
- 2010 Claude et Éric
- 2015 ''Cher André S. Labarthe''