JeanLouis Comolli is a French filmmaker screenwriter and writer born in 1941 in Philippeville now Skikda Algeria After working for Les Cahiers du Cinéma from 1962 to 1978 of which he was editor in chief from 1966 to 1971 he became a director of fiction and documentaries Also a journalist for Jazz Magazine he has cowritten or edited several books on jazz His multiple works and his theoretical thinking on cinema have nourished many filmmakers and documentary lovers He died on May 19 2022