An earlier version of this review incorrectly described Jean Cocteau’s 1946 “Beauty and the Beast” as a silent film. This version has been updated. 'How Does a Moment Last Forever" is one of ...

From the Disney animated classic to the live-action remake, the story of beauty meets beast has been a tale as old as time. By Arlene Washington Jean Cocteau’s 1946 live action follows parts of ...

Beauty and the Beast is the quintessentially French fairy tale, in more ways than one. It was not only written by a French author but Jean Cocteau, one of the giants of French cinema, was the ...

For the most part, the same can’t be said of this “Beauty and the Beast” in relation to its predecessor (or, for that matter, in relation to Jean Cocteau’s hauntingly poetic 1946 version).

Before Disney’s animated flick arrived, perhaps the best known screen adaptation of Beauty and the Beast was from French filmmaker Jean Cocteau. His take on Beauty and the Beast saw a more ...

that Jean Cocteau was a crucial influence on the French New Wave. His diary of the making of “Beauty and the Beast” served the movie-mad youths of the Cinémathèque as a glimpse behind the ...

Visually, the characterization makes a nod to the scowling-eyed Beast from Jean Cocteau’s immortal “Beauty and the Beast” (1946), but he also comes off as a kind of royal version of the ...

Igor Stravinsky with Cocteau and Picasso in Antibes 1926 ... letters from some of his many lovers. Picasso: The Beauty and The Beast is a Minnow Films production, Produced and Directed by John ...

In between the stark ravishment of 1946’s “Beauty and the Beast” and 1950’s edgy enchantment “Orpheus,” France’s art-hyphenate master Jean Cocteau filmed an adaptation of his ‘30s ...

The 1991 Disney version of “Beauty and the Beast” was perhaps the best and ... including the famous semi-surreal 1946 movie directed by Jean Cocteau? After the prologue, we get scenes that ...