Jean-Louis Comolli

Jean-Louis Comolli

Jean-Louis 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 co-written 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.

  • Title: Jean-Louis Comolli
  • Popularity: 1.66
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1941-07-30
  • Place of Birth: Philippeville - Constantine - France - [now Skikda, Algeria]
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Jean-Louis Comolli Movies

  • 1963
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    The Carabineers

    The Carabineers

    6.5 1963 HD

    During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write...

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  • 2023
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    Hi Mister Comolli

    Hi Mister Comolli

    6.5 2023 HD

    A few months before he died, Jean-Louis Comolli meets up with Dominique Cabrera for some free conversations with Isabelle Le Corff. They talk about...

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  • 2020
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    Nicolas Philibert, Hasard et Nécessité

    Nicolas Philibert, Hasard et Nécessité

    8 2020 HD

    This is a peaceful conversation between two filmmakers, Nicolas Philibert and Jean-Louis Comolli. A conversation, or the pleasure of spending time...

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  • 2013
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    À Fellini, romance d'un spectateur amoureux

    À Fellini, romance d'un spectateur amoureux

    1 2013 HD

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  • 1967
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    Festivals 66 Cinéma 67

    Festivals 66 Cinéma 67

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1965
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    Alphaville

    Alphaville

    7 1965 HD

    Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by...

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  • 2011
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    À voir absolument: 1963-1973 Dix années aux Cahiers du Cinéma

    À voir absolument: 1963-1973 Dix années aux Cahiers du Cinéma

    1 2011 HD

    Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, former editors at Cahiers du Cinema, interview their former colleagues and fellow travellers during the "Red...

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  • 1963
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    Suzanne’s Career

    Suzanne’s Career

    6.4 1963 HD

    In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a...

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  • 1969
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    Jean Renoir : Partie de campagne

    Jean Renoir : Partie de campagne

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1981
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    The Red Shade

    The Red Shade

    5.1 1981 HD

    The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is...

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  • 1981
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    The Red Shade

    The Red Shade

    5.1 1981 HD

    The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is...

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  • 1981
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    Heat of Desire

    Heat of Desire

    5.9 1981 HD

    In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline...

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  • 1983
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    Hiver 60

    Hiver 60

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1983
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    Stray Bullets

    Stray Bullets

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1976
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    La Cecilia

    La Cecilia

    6.7 1976 HD

    At the end of the nineteenth century, Italian anarchists, ten men, one woman, libertarian, collectivist emigrate to Brazil to start a leaderless...

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  • 2018
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    Les Fantômes de Mai 68

    Les Fantômes de Mai 68

    1 2018 HD

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  • 1976
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    La Cecilia

    La Cecilia

    6.7 1976 HD

    At the end of the nineteenth century, Italian anarchists, ten men, one woman, libertarian, collectivist emigrate to Brazil to start a leaderless...

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  • 2000
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    Buenaventura Durruti, anarquista

    Buenaventura Durruti, anarquista

    7.7 2000 HD

    Filmed between February and March 1999 in La Cupula (Girona), the rehearsal place of the Spanish independent theater company Els Joglars, this...

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  • 2000
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    Buenaventura Durruti, anarquista

    Buenaventura Durruti, anarquista

    7.7 2000 HD

    Filmed between February and March 1999 in La Cupula (Girona), the rehearsal place of the Spanish independent theater company Els Joglars, this...

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  • 2014
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    Cinéma documentaire, Fragments d'une histoire

    Cinéma documentaire, Fragments d'une histoire

    6.8 2014 HD

    Resorting to the images that make up three quarters of the last century, Jean-Louis Comolli chose films that crossed his path fifty years ago,...

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  • 2009
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    Facing the Phantoms

    Facing the Phantoms

    1 2009 HD

    French film and WWII historian Sylvie Lindeperg analyzes Alain Resnais's seminal 1956 film, "Night and Fog", and attempts to place it in the context...

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  • 1992
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    La campagne de Provence

    La campagne de Provence

    1 1992 HD

    From June 1991 to March 1992, nine months of a violent and agonizing political battle, in Provence, on the occasion of the regional elections.

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  • 1994
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    Un Américain en Normandie

    Un Américain en Normandie

    1 1994 HD

    Filmmaker Samuel Fuller tells the story of Corporal Samuel Fuller's landing on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, and his subsequent campaign in Normandy...

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  • 1995
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    Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue

    Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue

    1 1995 HD

    Documentary covering the career of French composer Georges Delerue, famous for film scores for such films as Platoon, Contempt, Shoot the Piano...

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  • 1989
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    Marseille de père en fils - Ombres sur la ville

    Marseille de père en fils - Ombres sur la ville

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1989
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    Marseille de père en fils - Coup de mistral

    Marseille de père en fils - Coup de mistral

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1993
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    Marseille en mars

    Marseille en mars

    1 1993 HD

    During the campaign of the legislative elections of 1995, most of the protagonists of Marseille from father to son reflect on the notion of...

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  • 1996
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    Marseille contre Marseille

    Marseille contre Marseille

    10 1996 HD

    A political fable. A tragicomedy set in Marseille during the municipal elections of June 1995. In populist northern districts, they rally around the...

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  • 1997
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    La question des alliances

    La question des alliances

    1 1997 HD

    1997 legislative elections: a few days before the dissolution of the National Assembly, it appears that the central problem of this new battle is...

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  • 2001
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    Nos deux Marseillaises

    Nos deux Marseillaises

    1 2001 HD

    Two daughters of North African immigrants, born in Marseilles, who are barely over thirty years old, take part in the political battles and local...

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  • 2003
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    Rêves de France à Marseille

    Rêves de France à Marseille

    1 2003 HD

    In June 1999, Jean-Claude Gaudin organized a great popular festival, "La Massalia", to celebrate all the communities that make up Marseilles and to...

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  • 1987
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    Pétition

    Pétition

    1 1987 HD

    A César award nominated short feature.

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  • 2005
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    L'ultima utopia: la televisione secondo Rossellini

    L'ultima utopia: la televisione secondo Rossellini

    1 2005 HD

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  • 1968
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    Les deux marseillaises

    Les deux marseillaises

    1 1968 HD

    The campaign of the parliamentary elections of June 1968 in Asnieres with the three main candidates: Albin Chalandon ( UDR ), Claude Denis ( PCF )...

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  • 2010
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    Filmer aujourd'hui

    Filmer aujourd'hui

    1 2010 HD

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  • 1993
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    La vraie vie (dans les bureaux)

    La vraie vie (dans les bureaux)

    1 1993 HD

    The scenes take place in the Ile-de-France (Paris area) social security office (CRAMIF). From October to December of 1992, we filmed the "Invalidity"...

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  • 2001
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    L'affaire Sofri

    L'affaire Sofri

    1 2001 HD

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  • 1997
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    Le Concerto de Mozart

    Le Concerto de Mozart

    1 1997 HD

    Based on an idea by the writer Francis Marmande, Michel Portal, jazz clarinetist, leads young virtuoso musicians for this concerto.

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  • 1991
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    Naissance d'un hôpital

    Naissance d'un hôpital

    1 1991 HD

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  • 2016
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    Marseille entre deux tours

    Marseille entre deux tours

    1 2016 HD

    It was the evening of the first round of municipal elections, March 23, 2014. We have been filming the Socialist Party in Marseille since the death...

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  • 1978
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    Totò, une anthologie

    Totò, une anthologie

    1 1978 HD

    A documentary about italian comic Totò.

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  • 1983
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    Stray Bullets

    Stray Bullets

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1968
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    En passant par le Québec : le jeune cinéma canadien

    En passant par le Québec : le jeune cinéma canadien

    1 1968 HD

    A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic Jean-Louis Comolli, originally aired sometime in 1968.

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  • 1968
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    Pierre Perrault - L'action parlée

    Pierre Perrault - L'action parlée

    1 1968 HD

    A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics André S. Labarthe and Jean-Louis Comolli,...

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  • 1969
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    Le jeune cinéma hongrois : Miklos Jancso

    Le jeune cinéma hongrois : Miklos Jancso

    1 1969 HD

    A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic Jean-Louis Comolli, originally aired 15 December 1969.

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  • 1971
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    Vivre et filmer en Hongrie

    Vivre et filmer en Hongrie

    1 1971 HD

    A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic Jean-Louis Comolli, originally aired 5 March 1971.

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  • 1993
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    Chahine & Co

    Chahine & Co

    1 1993 HD

    A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic Jean-Louis Comolli, originally aired 16 April 1993.

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  • 1991
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    Retrato de Família

    Retrato de Família

    1 1991 HD

    Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she...

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  • 2011
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    À voir absolument: 1963-1973 Dix années aux Cahiers du Cinéma

    À voir absolument: 1963-1973 Dix années aux Cahiers du Cinéma

    1 2011 HD

    Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, former editors at Cahiers du Cinema, interview their former colleagues and fellow travellers during the "Red...

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  • 2020
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    Nicolas Philibert, Hasard et Nécessité

    Nicolas Philibert, Hasard et Nécessité

    8 2020 HD

    This is a peaceful conversation between two filmmakers, Nicolas Philibert and Jean-Louis Comolli. A conversation, or the pleasure of spending time...

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