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 ...

Jean Cocteau has received a bit more ink than ... “I knew there was a new print of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and I thought it was great to look at Cocteau again.” Although two of Cocteau ...

Jean Cocteau was often characterized as a Surrealist, and Beauty and the Beast, his most fanciful picture, is still often thought of as a Surrealist film. But Cocteau was quick to distance himself ...

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 ...

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 ...

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).

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 ...

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 ...