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 ...

La Belle et La Bete (1946) | “Let me speak four truly magic words, childhood’s Open Sesame, Once upon a time…” - Jean Cocteau, opening credits. Before Disney’s Beauty and the Beast there was La Belle ...

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 ...

Over 40 years ago, Harrison Ford replaced Tom Selleck as the lead in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark and Harrison has expressed his thanks again. What to watch at home this week - June ...

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 ...

IT IS a brave French director who takes on Jean Cocteau’s best-loved film, to say nothing of its Disney cousin. “La Belle et la Bête”, made in 1946, is seen by some as not only the multifaceted poet’s ...

Director Jean Cocteau's rendering of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's classic fairy tale is filled with dreamlike, romantic imagery.

This astonishingly original presentation of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast blurs the distinctions between film and live opera, merging Jean Cocteau's classic 1946 romantic fantasy with Philip ...

Composer’s genre-defying ‘La Belle et la Bete’ will be performed to Jean Cocteau’s classic 1946 film. Josette Day and Jean Marais in Jean Cocteau's "The Beauty and the Beast." The 1946 film will be ...

The Last Voyage of the Demeter and many more are releasing in theaters this weekend. Check out all of the new movies to determine which ones you want to see. Sandra Bullock took a year off to care for ...

Disney films are without doubt the pinnacle of children's and animated movies. To mark the release of the remake «The Jungle Book», we take a look back at the studio's animated masterpieces.

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