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.
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Jean Douchet Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jean Douchet |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France |
| Date of Birth | 1929-01-19 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 90 |
| Deathday | 2019-11-22 |
Jean Douchet Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Jean Douchet, Restless Child | Self | 2017-05-31 | Three young cinephiles follow Jean Douchet, question his friends and former students. This documentary reveals the man and his critical philosophy, a … |
| Jean Douchet analyse « Vivre sa vie » de Jean-Luc Godard au cinéma Devosge de Dijon | Self | 2012-04-08 | … |
| Jean Douchet analyse “Deux” de Werner Schroeter à la Cinémathèque française | Self | 2011-02-11 | … |
| Jean Douchet ou l’art d’aimer | Self | 2011-11-01 | … |
| Cinématon n°66 : Jean Douchet | Self | 1979-07-12 | … |
| Cher André S. Labarthe | Self | 2015-12-15 | … |
| “Spring Breakers” par Jean Douchet | 2013-12-19 | … | |
| “Pierrot le Fou” par Jean Douchet | 2018-01-18 | … | |
| “Viaggio in Italia” par Jean Douchet | 2012-09-20 | … | |
| Claude Chabrol, l’entomologiste | Self – Interviewer | 1993-02-12 | Made for “Cinéma, de notre temps” series. In a peaceful residence near the Loire River, Chabrol raised his favorite characters : monsters. In this do… |
| Éric Rohmer, preuves à l’appui | Self – Interviewer | 1994-01-01 | Part of the Cinéastes de notre temps series…. |
| Offre d’emploi | Le directeur | 1982-03-15 | A man looks for a job, ignoring the selection process of employees. Part of “Contes modernes: A propos du travail.”… |
| Looking Back on Boudu Saved from Drowning | Self | 1969-12-16 | French television program discussing Jean Renoir’s 1932 film “Boudu Saved from Drowning”…. |
| Godard, Love and Poetry | Self | 2007-01-01 | Documentary about director Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. In 1960, Jean-Luc Godard films for the first time Anna Karina and falls in love. His cinem… |
| Yoshida …or: The Explosion of the Story | Self | 2008-03-28 | A documentary about Yoshishige (Kijû) Yoshida’s creative process for his most significant film, the 1969 avantgarde tour-de-force Eros + Massacre (19… |
| La photo | Self | 2014-04-01 | Five, even six, variations on a theme, commentary and interpretation of the same photograph. An exercise to tell and summarize the history of the CinÃ… |
| Claude Chabrol’s Eye | Self | 2018-04-27 | … |
| North | Christian, boss of the pharmacy | 1992-02-19 | The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for… |
| Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker? | Self | 2008-04-09 | An overview of the life and work of legendary Japanese filmmaker Kijû Yoshida, a notable figure of the Japanese New Wave…. |
| Place de l’Étoile | A client (uncredited) | 1965-05-19 | Éric Rohmer’s short for the portmanteau film Paris vu par (Six in Paris, 1965), concerning a haberdasher and his umbrella. Convinced he has killed a … |
| A Dirty Story | 1977-11-09 | A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies’ bathroom and bec… | |
| Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die | Jean-Paul | 1996-01-03 | Benoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. He go… |
| A Brutal Game | Le Professeur Marchal | 1983-09-28 | The film follows a famous scientist who rules over his errant disabled daughter with an iron fist. He’s meticulous and tyrannical, while she is impetu… |
| Cinématon VII | N°66 | 1980-04-19 | Reel 7 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series…. |
| Sitcom | le psychothérapeute | 1998-05-27 | The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother’s discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister’s sui… |
| Cocktail Morlock | Self | 1981-01-31 | … |
| Céline and Julie Go Boating | M’sieur Dede | 1974-09-18 | A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory pa… |
| As Bodas de Deus | Bardamu | 1999-10-15 | After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy’s girlfriend through a roll of the dice…. |
| The Mother and the Whore | Café de Flore’s Customer (uncredited) | 1973-05-01 | Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of… |
| Gardens in Autumn | Le père de l’huissier | 2006-09-06 | When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileg… |
| Breathless | Passerby | 1960-03-16 | A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away … |
| God’s Comedy | Antoine Doinel | 1995-01-01 | An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop…. |
| Six in Paris | A client (segment “Place de l’Etoile”) (uncredited) | 1965-05-19 | Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and … |
| Sodankylä Forever | Self | 2010-08-05 | The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded … |
| The Good Girls | customer (uncredited) | 1960-04-22 | Four attractive young women who work together in an appliance store in Paris spend their free time looking for love and fulfilment with little success… |
| Cinématon | N°66 | 1978-12-20 | Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36… |
| Elle | Party Guest | 2016-05-25 | When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordere… |
| Queen Margot | 1994-05-13 | Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble … | |
Jean Douchet Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Six in Paris | Director | 1965-05-19 | Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and … |
| Éric Rohmer, preuves à l’appui | Director | 1994-01-01 | Part of the Cinéastes de notre temps series…. |
| La serva amorosa | Director | 1995-01-01 | Coraline, a young servant in love with Florindo, will thwart the plans of Beatrice, the second wife of Ottavio, father of Florindo, who wants to captu… |
| Saint-Germain-des-Prés | Director | 1965-01-01 | … |
| Le mannequin de Belleville | Director | 1962-01-01 | A young inexperienced photographer is passed by a model in 60s Belleville. Guided by a coquettish girl, trying to find the ideal place to succeed as a… |
| À bicyclette | Director | 2009-01-01 | A young man being schizophrenic remission is seen taken by an obsession for bikes. He remembers a childhood where they exit traumatized by his inabili… |
| Titus-Carmel, un profil | Director | 1987-01-01 | … |
| La jeune femme et la mort | Director | 1972-01-01 | A short film by Jean Douchet… |
| Alexandre Astruc, l’ascendant taureau | Director | 1967-06-19 | A “Cinéastes de notre temps†series episode directed by french film critic Jean Douchet, originally aired 19 June 1967…. |
| Et crac ! | Director | 1969-01-01 | The husband, the wife and the lover than isn’t truly. The husband and the lover working in the manufacture of a material that will not come apart. H… |
| Postface à Tire-au-Flanc | Director | 1969-01-01 | This is a short film reviewing Tire-au-Flanc by Jean Douchet and Eric Rohmer…. |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Six in Paris | Writer | 1965-05-19 | Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and … |
| Saint-Germain-des-Prés | Screenplay | 1965-01-01 | … |
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