Jean Douchet
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Biography: 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. Source: Article "Jean Douchet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France
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Birthday: January 19, 1929
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 22, 2019
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"Matins calmes à Séoul" par Jean Douchet
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-01-23
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"Three's a Crowd" par Jean Douchet - mars 2015
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-03-12
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"Faust" par Jean Douchet
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-11-28
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"Three's a Crowd" par Jean Douchet - décembre 2015
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-13
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The Mother and the Whore
Overview: Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-01
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Sitcom
Overview: The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and sadomasochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband. And it all started with the arrival in the family of an innocent looking rat.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-05-27
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Don't Forget You're Going to Die
Overview: Benoit has his life all planned out before him. Unfortunately, he had totally forgotten to include his military service. Inevitably called into duty, he tries everything he can to avoid it, eventually launching into a hedonistic lifestyle—out of control with drugs, alcohol, and nightclubs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-01-03
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Godard, Love and Poetry
Overview: 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 cinema is transformed by it forever. Spanned from "Little Soldier" to "Crazy Pete" through "A Woman is a Woman", "My Life to Live" andd "Alphaville", this documentary tells how, during five years , Godard and Karina consciously mixed cinema and private life, with constant will to film "as in true life" and to live "as in film"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Claude Chabrol, l'entomologiste
Overview: Made for "Cinéma, de notre temps" series. In a peaceful residence near the Loire River, Chabrol raised his favorite characters : monsters. In this documentary, we can see him actively working on the adaptation of Simenon's novel "Betty", and answering the questions posed by Jean Douchet (his former colleagues at the magazine "Cahiers du Cinéma"). Excerpts from The Butcher (Le Boucher), Violette Nozière, The Hatter's Ghost (Les Fantômes du chapelier) and Masks (Masques) will punctuate their meaningful and witty conversation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-12
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Gardens in Autumn
Overview: When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power. As he gradually becomes acquainted with milieus which he d either forgotten or never known and a host of sometimes eccentric, often remarkable everyday people, Vincent really begins to start living again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-06
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"Spring Breakers" par Jean Douchet
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-19
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Éric Rohmer, preuves à l’appui
Overview: Part of the Cinéastes de notre temps series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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"Pierrot le Fou" par Jean Douchet
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-18
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"Viaggio in Italia" par Jean Douchet
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-20
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The 400 Blows
Overview: For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-06-03
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Employment Offer
Overview: A man looks for a job, ignoring the selection process of employees. Part of "Contes modernes: A propos du travail."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-15
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Breathless
Overview: 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 to Italy with him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-03-16
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Céline and Julie Go Boating
Overview: Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-18
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Six in Paris
Overview: 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 Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-05-19
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Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
Overview: An overview of the life and work of legendary Japanese filmmaker Kijû Yoshida, a notable figure of the Japanese New Wave.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-09
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A Dirty Story
Overview: 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 became addicted to looking through it at female genitals. They ask him questions and come to conclusions about sex. This is a filmed, scripted version. Then, the actual person who this happened to relates the same story; this time, however, it is an unscripted documentary, in which the same things occur as in the scripted one.
Genres: Documentary Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-11-09
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Elle
Overview: 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 ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-05-25
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As Bodas de Deus
Overview: After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-10-15
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Jean Douchet, Restless Child
Overview: Three young cinephiles follow Jean Douchet, question his friends and former students. This documentary reveals the man and his critical philosophy, a part of the history of Cahiers du Cinema and this art of loving to which he has devoted his existence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-31
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Yoshida …or: The Explosion of the Story
Overview: A documentary about Yoshishige (Kijû) Yoshida's creative process for his most significant film, the 1969 avantgarde tour-de-force Eros + Massacre (1969).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-28
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Place de l'Étoile
Overview: 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 man, Jean-Marc flees and spends an anxious few days waiting for the death of the stranger to be reported in the newspapers...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-05-19
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Jean Douchet analyse « Vivre sa vie » de Jean-Luc Godard au cinéma Devosge de Dijon
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-04-08
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Jean Douchet analyse "Deux" de Werner Schroeter à la Cinémathèque française
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-02-11
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Claude Chabrol's Eye
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-04-27
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Looking Back on Boudu Saved from Drowning
Overview: French television program discussing Jean Renoir's 1932 film "Boudu Saved from Drowning".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-16
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North
Overview: 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 her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-02-19
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Jean Douchet ou l’art d’aimer
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-01
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Cinématon n°66 : Jean Douchet
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-05
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Cher André S. Labarthe
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-15
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Cinématon
Overview: 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 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Cocktail Morlock
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-31
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La photo
Overview: Five, even six, variations on a theme, commentary and interpretation of the same photograph. An exercise to tell and summarize the history of the Cinémathèque française.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-04-01
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A Brutal Game
Overview: A strict father imposes impossible guidelines on his disabled daughter which reflect his secret and tortured life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-09-28
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God's Comedy
Overview: An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-01-20
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Cinématon VII
Overview: Reel 7 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-05
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The Good Girls
Overview: Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-22
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Sodankylä Forever
Overview: 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 by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-08-05
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Queen Margot
Overview: 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 King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-13
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My Story Is Not Yet Written
Overview: Jacqueline Gozlan - who left Algeria with her parents in 1961 - nostalgically retraces the history of the Algiers Cinematheque, inseparable from that of the country's Independence, through film extracts and numerous testimonies; notably that of one of its creators, Jean-Michel Arnold, but also of filmmakers such as Merzak Allouache and critics such as Jean Douchet. A place of life for Algerians, the Cinémathèque was the hub of African cinemas. Created in 1965 by Ahmed Hocine, Mahieddine Moussaoui and Jean-Michel Arnold, the Cinémathèque benefited from the excitement of Independence. The Cinematheque becomes a meeting place for Algiers society, future filmmakers find their best school there. In 1969, the Algiers Pan-African Festival brought together all African filmmakers, and from 1970, Boudjemâa Kareche developed a collection of Arab and African films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-06-27
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"The Lightship" par Jean Douchet
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-27
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The Adventures of Sylvia Couski
Overview: The ex-wife of a famous sculptor convinces her lover to remove one of his sculptures from an exhibition and replace it with a live model.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-12
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"Persona" par Jean Douchet
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-03-05
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"Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss" par Jean Douchet
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-04-18
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