Two decades after its creation, Philip Glass' "La Belle et la Bête" ("Beauty and the Beast") retains its power to amaze and enchant an audience. This genre-spanning adaptation of the classic Jean ...
Jean Cocteau’s extravagant 1946 fantasy reacquaints a familiar nursery tale – a beautiful young girl goes as a hostage for her father to live with a hideous beast – with its folkloric origins. In a ...
Jean Cocteau opens his film adaptation of the classic fairytale Beauty And The Beast like any other fable, with "four magic words" as he puts it – "once upon a time…" But before the story can begin, ...
Born from dreams of celluloid, Orestes is a Greek-American writer based in London with degrees in Screenwriting, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature, as well as years of experience in ...
Fort Worth Opera is bringing a spellbinding blend of music, cinema, and imagination to the Ridglea Theater this November as ...
VietNamNet Bridge – The Institut Français de Hanoi – L’Espace – will screen the French film “La belle et la bête” (Beauty and the Beast) on June 4 at 24 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi. VietNamNet Bridge – ...
Une nouvelle adaptation live du conte "La Belle et la Bête". Belle, jeune fille rêveuse et passionnée de littérature, vit avec son père, un vieil inventeur farfelu. S'étant perdu une nuit dans la ...
The film was also a chance for Cocteau to give his male lead Jean Marais a less overtly sexy role than his fans were used to, though there’s still a lot of smouldering going on, some of it literal.