Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other avant-garde artists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the algebra of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde.[citation needed] His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf (whom he cast in one of his one-act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940), and Raymond Radiguet. His work was played out in the theatrical world of the Grands Theatres, the Boulevards and beyond during the Parisian epoque he both lived through and helped define and create. His versatile, unconventional approach and enormous output brought him international acclaim. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Cocteau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
To Each His Own Cinema
as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema"...
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Beauty and the Beast
as The Voice of Magic (uncredited)The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to...
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The Image Book
as (archive footage)In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings,...
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Testament of Orpheus
as The PoetOutside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by...
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Orpheus
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
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The Blood of a Poet
as Bit Part (uncredited)Told in four episodes, an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension,...
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The Strange Ones
as Narrator (voice)Elisabeth and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a...
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Venom and Eternity
as SelfIn this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at...
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From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
as Reciter (voice)Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the...
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The Storm Within
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his...
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Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
as Self (archive footage)This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features...
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The Phantom Baron
as Le baron Julius Carol - le baron fantômeElfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old...
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Callas Assoluta
as Self (archive footage)This revealing documentary from director Philippe Kohly examines the storied life of renowned...
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America as Seen by a Frenchman
as Narrator (Afterword)At the end of the 1950s, French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months...
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A Night at the Opera
as Self (archive footage)A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.
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The Century Is Fifty
as SelfAs the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century...
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Cocteau - Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
as Self (archive footage)Portrait of Panama Al Brown, a great boxer in the 30's, and its story with France, with a focus...
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8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
as uncredited8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements is an American experimental film directed by Hans Richter,...
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Jean Cocteau
as SelfWe film buffs grew up worshiping Jean Cocteau—particularly his BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ORPHEUS and...
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La Villa Santo-Sospir
as SelfCocteau takes the viewer on a tour of a friend's villa on the French coast (a major location...
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Daedalus
as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of...
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Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
as Self (archive footage)A look at the life and art of Ms. Iran Darroudi, one of the most important contemporary Iranian...
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Beyond the Riviera
as uncreditedTravelogue exploring the coastline, towns and surrounding mountains of the French Riviera.
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Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
as Self (archive footage)Jean Cocteau reminisces about the people he has known throughout his long life.
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La Malibran
as Alfred de MussetOn the death of the famous singer Maria Malibran, Countess Merlin retraces the main lines of the...
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It Happened on the 36 Candles
as Self (uncredited)Rejecting the union of her daughter Brigitte with a modest worker, Madame Magnin invents an...
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Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
as SelfIn August 1963, just a couple of months before his death, Jean Cocteau made one last short film....
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Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
as uncreditedA short film about a famous writer who loses control of his hand and begins to write letters and...
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Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
as Self (archive footage)French artist Jean Cocteau's multifaceted work across poetry, plays, paintings and film made him...
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Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
as SelfThis documentary is a portrait of Proust composed of recollections by those who knew him....
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Daughter of the Sands
as Narrator (voice)This Moroccan romance is a kind of Arab Tristan and Isolde: the heroine kills herself when she...
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Disorder
as SelfVariations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in...
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In This Atrocious Garden
as Narrator (voice)This short documentary film is conceived as a stroll through the valley of Thebes and the temple...
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Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
as HimselfIn 1959, Jean Cocteau looked back on his artistic journey for the Télé Monte-Carlo television...
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Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
as SelfCocteau, at his home, remembers his childhood, talks at length about theater, cinema,...
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Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
as SelfJean Cocteau (1889-1963), was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, and filmmaker, whose...
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