Pour marquer le 60e anniversaire de la mort de Jean Cocteau, la Cinémathèque de Paris lui rend hommage du 15 au 26 novembre, à travers une rétrospective de son œuvre. L’occasion de découvrir ou ...

Inveterate surrealist and playwright, artist, and writer polymath Jean Cocteau said that his first feature film, The Blood of a Poet (1929), wasn’t a work of Surrealism — he wanted to “avoid the ...

Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and movie features writer. He is also an independent filmmaker and member of the Screen Actors Guild based out of Los Angeles. Zach grew up watching ...

The curtain rises on one of San Francisco's most exciting arts events of the year next week as Opera Parallèle presents the world premiere of its innovative take on "La Belle et La Bête" (Beauty and ...

Cocteau's magical pictures are intact: the gates that open by themselves, the candelabra held by human arms, the terra-cotta wall ornaments with eyes that move and the wrenching performances by Jean ...

We film buffs grew up worshiping Jean Cocteau—particularly his BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ORPHEUS and BLOOD OF A POET—but in recent years he has perhaps ebbed from our consciousness.