Jean Douchet

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 JeanLuc Godard and JeanDaniel 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 Cinémathèques 2010 tribute to the then recently deceased Éric Rohmer he made the documentary Claude et Éric an interview with Claude Chabrol about Rohmers 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 CCBYSA 30