Jean-Louis Comolli

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

Life and work

Comolli was born in what was then French Algeria in Constantine. Even in Algeria, he was enthusiastic about jazz music of Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk. Comolli was 1962-1978 film critic for Cahiers du cinéma and wrote from the 1960s in jazz magazines. He began to turn in 1968, documentaries and short films. At the same time he has been since the 1960s as a jazz writer known especially for the book Free Jazz Black Power with Philippe Carles ( Chief Editor of Jazz Magazine, for that too Comolli writes ), which is also a social history of African Americans in the U.S., and as a co author of a French jazz lexicon. He is a professor at the University of Paris VIII

Comolli turned, among other documentaries about Georges Delerue, the history of the left, such as the Paris Commune ( La Cecilia ) and Buenaventura Durruti (1999), or about the election campaign of the National Front of Jean -Marie Le Pen in the South of France (La campagne de Provence) or from Bernard Tapie in 1992 in Marseille (Marseille contre Marseille). For the TV movie petition of 1987 he was nominated for the César. In his feature film L' ombre rouge ( secret action Marseille) from 1981 with Claude Brasseur and Nathalie Baye is about a communist arms smugglers in the Spanish Civil War, which is taken by the Gestapo. For his films he often uses music by Michel Portal, Martial Solal and Louis Sclavis.

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

Writings (selection )

As author

  • Cinéma contre Spectacle de suivi " 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. Centre Georges Pompidou Service Commercial, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-85850-900- X (along 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 Centre 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 Shoah. 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 Dictionnaire du nouveau jazz. ( Collection Bouquins ). Édition 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. Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2001, ISBN 2-84246-055-3.
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