Jean Douchet Explained

Jean Douchet
Birth Date:19 January 1929
Birth Place:Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France
Death Place:Paris[1] [2]
Occupation:Film critic, teacher, film director
Yearsactive:1957–2019

Jean Douchet (in French duʃɛ/; 19 January 1929 – 22 November 2019)[3] 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.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

On 22 November 2019 the Cinémathèque Française announced that Jean Douchet had died at age 90.[10]

Filmography

Books

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 永利游戏官网-【备用线路】 .
  2. Web site: Death of Jean Douchet, influential film critic and figure of "Cahiers" .
  3. Web site: Legendary French Film Critic Jean Douchet Dies at 90. The Hollywood Reporter. 22 November 2019. en-US. 2019-11-27.
  4. 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
  5. News: Regnier . Isabelle . La pépinière du 'jeune cinéma français' . Le Monde . August 13, 2013.
  6. Jean Douchet L'homme cinéma, Écriture, Paris, 2014.
  7. Web site: L'Art d'aimer . Why Not Productions . December 5, 2012.
  8. Web site: cinemathequedebourgogne.com . 2015-02-08 . 2016-10-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161021225629/http://www.cinemathequedebourgogne.com/ . dead .
  9. Web site: Soirée en hommage à Eric Rohmer . . February 8, 2010 . February 7, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150208024307/http://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/dans-salles/rencontres-conferences/soiree-hommage-eric-rohmer.html . February 8, 2015 .
  10. 1197815669246562304. cinemathequefr. La Cinémathèque a l'immense tristesse d'annoncer la mort de Jean Douchet. Compagnon de la Nouvelle Vague, immense c… . 22 November 2019.