Jean Narboni (born in 1937 in Orléansville, now Chlef, Algeria) is a French film critic, historian and academic. After settling in Paris in the early 1960s, he became a regular at the Cinémathèque Française and began contributing to Cahiers du cinéma in 1963. He served as the magazine’s editorial secretary before becoming co-editor-in-chief alongside Jean-Louis Comolli in 1968. He founded the magazine’s publishing imprint, which he directed for several years, overseeing the publication of works by Serge Daney and Roland Barthes. He was involved in the magazine’s political commitment, first to communism and later to Maoism. From 1971, he taught in the film department at the University of Paris VIII and contributed to film analysis programmes at IDHEC and, subsequently, La Fémis. He co-directed L’Olivier with a team from the University of Vincennes. His books include Temps incertains (2006), on Mikio Naruse, and Pourquoi les coiffeurs ? Notes actuelles sur Le Dictateur (2010), as well as critical studies of Ingmar Bergman, Charlie Chaplin and Quentin Tarantino.
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