Jean-Louis Comolli

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Jean-Louis Comolli (born July 30, 1941 in Philippeville near Constantine , then French Algeria ) is a French film critic, screenwriter, film director and jazz writer.

Life

Comolli was born near Constantine in Algeria, then France . While still in Algeria, he was enthusiastic about jazz music by Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk . Comolli was a film critic for the Cahiers du cinéma from 1962 to 1978 and wrote for Jazz Magazine from the 1960s . He began making documentaries and short films in 1968. At the same time, he has been known as a jazz writer since the 1960s, especially for the book Free Jazz-Black Power with Philippe Carles (editor-in-chief of Jazz Magazine , for which Comolli also writes), which is also a social history of African American in the USA, and as a Ko -Author of a French jazz dictionary. He is a professor at the University of Paris VIII.

Comolli made, among other things, documentaries about Georges Delerue , the history of the left, z. B. the Paris Commune ( La Cecilia ) and Buenaventura Durruti (1999), or about the election campaign of the Front National by Jean-Marie Le Pen in southern France ( La campagne de Provence ) or by Bernard Tapie in Marseille in 1992 ( Marseille contre Marseille ). He was nominated for the César for the 1987 TV film Petition . His 1981 feature film L'ombre rouge (Secret Operation Marseille) with Claude Brasseur and Nathalie Baye is about a communist arms smuggler in the Spanish Civil War who is caught by the Gestapo. For his films he often uses music by Michel Portal , Martial Solal or Louis Sclavis .

He also appeared in small supporting roles as an actor, for example in Alphaville in 1965 with Eddie Constantine (as Professor Jeckell).

Fonts

as an author

  • Cinéma contre Spectacle suivi de “Technique et idéologie” 1971–1972 . Lagrasse, Verdier 2009, ISBN 978-2-86432-587-1 .
  • Voir et pouvoir. L'innocence perdue; cinéma, télévision, fiction, documentaire. (Collection Sciences humaines). Lagrasse, Verdier 2004, ISBN 2-86432-411-3 .
  • Arrêt sur histoire . Center Georges Pompidou Service Commercial, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-85850-900-X (together with Jacques Rancière ).
  • Free jazz, black power. ("Free Jazz, Black Power", 2000). Edition Dillmann, Hofheim 1980, ISBN 3-9800387-0-X (EA 1974, together with Philippe Carles).
  • The passing actor. Sketch of a renaissance . In: Paul Willemsen, Thomas Trummer (Ed.): Actors & Extras . Argos Center for Art & Media, Brussels 2009, ISBN 978-90-76855-00-4 , pp. 51-74.
  • Fatal rendez-vous . In: Jean-Michel Frodon: Le cinéma et la Shoa. Un art à l'épreuve de la tragédie du 20e siècle . Cahiers du cinéma, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-86642-446-6 , pp. 69-84.

as editor

  • Le nouveau Dictionnaire du jazz. (Collection Bouquins). Edition Robert Laffont, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-221-11592-3 (former title: Dictionnaire du Jazz. Together with Philippe Carles and André Clergeat ).
  • Cinéma et Politique. 1956–1970, les années pop . Center National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84246-055-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography in Dictionnaire du Jazz 1988.
  2. ↑ This essay was based on articles published between spring 1971 and autumn 1972 in the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. published.
personal data
SURNAME Comolli, Jean-Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director, film critic and jazz writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Philippeville