The Dangerous World of Jean-Paul Belmondo

AFS explores the action star beyond Breathless

"...the work of France's greatest export (wine be damned), Jean-Paul Belmondo...."

July 6, 2018 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Of Antidotes and Elixirs

The Dobie begins a one-week run of Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast on Dec. 20.

"...French filmmaker and author Jean Cocteau once said, "Victor Hugo was a madman who..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

The Dreamers

The NC-17 rating is revived for Bertolucci's fervent ode to cinema and the idealism of youth.

"...Terribles (which was itself based on the novel by Jean Cocteau). As the erotic play between Theo, Matthew, and..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Beauty and the Beast

"...Directed by: Jean Cocteau. Starring: Jean Marais and Josette Day. Cocteau works..."

Oct. 4, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Les Enfants Terribles'

"...Jean Cocteau's sharp metallic voice slices and dices like his..."

July 27, 2007 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Les Enfants Terribles

"...Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville. Starring: Jacques Bernard, Renee Cosima, Edouard Dermithe and..."

April 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Different Beast

For Belle Redux, Stephen Mills takes an innovative approach to Beauty and the Beast

"...the Disney version, no doubt. Perhaps you know the Cocteau version, too. You may even know that late-Eighties version..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Les Enfants Terribles'

Philip Glass opera gives new meaning to sibling rivalry

"...This ne plus ultra of sibling rivalries originated with Jean Cocteau as a novel in 1929 and was adapted..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dames Du Bois De Boulogne, Les

"...dialogue for this melodrama of revenge was written by Jean Cocteau. Praised by such filmmakers as Jean-Luc Godard and..."

Sept. 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film at Wit's End

An Interview With Stan Brakhage

"...and, yes, even corporations. He's in your MTV, your Jean-Luc Godard, your Nike commercials, your Oliver Stone, and just..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

A Song in His Heart

'The Essential Jacques Demy' anthologizes the French New Wave's chief romantic

"...his homages to the roots of the movement (Bresson, Cocteau, Ophüls, Renais) brace him unto a cinematic renaissance that..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips & Beyond: Santa Fe, N.M.

Art and food in the enchanting city of Santa Fe

"...moving here in the 1970s. His pet project, the Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave., presents an assortment of..."

Nov. 12, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Beauty and the Beast

Yet another take on the classic fairy tale

"...Perhaps the answer lies in Jean Cocteau’s 1946 gorgeous black-and-white rendition of the timeless romance,..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Beastly

Beauty and the Beast is refashioned here for the contemporary teen set and stars I Am Number Four's Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens.

"...any filmmaker will ever surpass the magisterial heartache of Jean Cocteau's 1946 phantasmagoria or, alternately, the tawny, televised melodramatics..."

March 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...like a teen after a summer growth spurt, his jeans riding 3 inches above the ankle; it had seriously..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Heart of Glass

UT Performing Arts Center presents a Philip Glass retrospective, "Philip on Film," with Glass performing live his film compositions.

"...Bowie album Low -- and a haunting score for Jean Cocteau's La Belle et La Bête (which screens October..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Philip on film

UT Performance Arts Center's Philip Glass Series schedule

"...THU, 10/4La Belle et La Bête D: Jean Cocteau (1946)..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Screens Feature

Orfeu

"...film probably was made as a contemporary response to Jean Cocteau's seminal Orphée of 1950, thus Diegues' film fits..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cinema of Jean Rollin

"...The Cinema of Jean RollinThe Nude Vampire, The Shiver of the Vampires, The..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Ballet Austin's Belle Redux: A Tale of Beauty & the Beast

In its striking concept and execution, Stephen Mills' take on the fairy tale was his most fully realized story ballet since Hamlet

"...the literal enchantment that we know from Disney and Jean Cocteau's wondrous 1946 film, but its message about love's..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Not Just Dance

Moving Into New Forms at the Performing Arts Center

"...based on the works of French writer and artist Jean Cocteau. Glass began with Orphee, creating a score supplemented..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Arts Feature by Stephanie Beauchamp

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 17-23

"...to act with grandeur," wrote Sagittarian author and activist Jean Genet. "And dreaming is nursed in darkness." According to..."

July 17, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Once Upon a Time in Spain

Guillermo del Toro on fairy tales, facists, and everybody's new favorite movie

"...they contained a lot of famous Grimm's tales and Jean de La Fontaine and Aesop's fables and so forth,..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Bringing Out the Dead

Swiss documentary maker Richard Dindo considers himself a "portraitist or biographer of those who are no longer with us." This week, he brings two films : about revolutionary Che Guevara and writer Jean Genet : to town as part of the Austin Film Society's Texas Documentary Tour.

"...revolutionary Guevara and the Palestinian texts of French writer Jean Genet ... and renders them on film, reconstructing their..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Ifs, Ands, or Butts

British Modernist Mary Butts

"...of American modernists - including James Oppenheim, Waldo Frank, Jean Toomer, Evelyn Scott, Cyril Kay Scott, and Sam Ornitz..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Books Feature by Harvey Pekar

Shortcuts

"...his approach to cinema during a cameo appearance in Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou. Fuller, who died on October..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Screens Column

Shortcuts

"...& Oct. 30, 7pm) is a rare screening of Jean-Pierre Melville's screen version of Jean Cocteau's play Les Enfants..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, Februry 12-18

"...TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau told the following story about Taurus composer Erik..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, November 27 - December 3

"...is just enough for me," joked poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. I suspect that when he said that, he..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

The First Plates Guide to Eating in Bed

No sleep ’til breakfast

"...What to Watch: Jean Cocteau's 1946 version of Beauty and the Beast is..."

May 5, 2017 Food Feature by Emily Beyda

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