In New Production of Belle, Ballet Austin Finds Grace in Beauty and Beasts

Stephen Mills mulls better life through dance

"...version of the story was published in 1756 by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, an ardent French feminist. She created..."

Sept. 27, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Visual Arts Review: “My Eyes Are Starving for Beauty”

A feast of fearless art with Anthony Sonnenberg

"...drag queen Jade Elektra and snippets from French filmmaker Jean Cocteau), and the trancelike quality is perfection...."

Sept. 6, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Belle

Icelandic reimagining of Beauty and the Beast can't balance camp and carnage

"...pastoral scenery of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Jean Cocteau's La belle et la bete. The film’s color..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Movie Review by Amelia Nonemacher

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ransom Riggs Has a Hollow City for You

And he'll tell you all about it at BookPeople tonight … maybe.

"...those odd number stations (as referenced so effectively in Jean Cocteau's Orpheus (1950)). A minute's listening served only to..."

Jan. 21, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

LoneStarCon 3: The George R. R. Martin Interview

'Game of Thrones' creator discusses how he writes and why

"...projects like his purchase and renovation of the historic Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe – we caught Martin..."

Aug. 29, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

DVD Watch: ‘I Killed My Mother’

A superlative take on teenage angst

"...crams his film with literary and cultural quotations (Maupassant, Jean Cocteau, James Dean, River Phoenix), and the French New..."

Aug. 13, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

'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

Bedside Manner: Got Opium?

Getting High and Low with Steven Martin, Nick Tosches, et al

"...filigree ornamentation -- tells of his own yen for Jean Cocteau's favored method of enlightenment. A longtime journalist and..."

July 23, 2012 Books Post by Marc Savlov

'Keyhole'

'Keyhole'

"...than the La Brea Tar Pits. Liberally borrowing from Jean Cocteau's scary-dreamy aesthetic, this gangster-ghost mash-up uses its genre..."

March 16, 2012 Screens Feature by Andy Campbell

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

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

A Cabinet of Drawings

The Ransom Center reminds us of the power of seeing originals over reproductions

"...of himself and wife Frida Kahlo and one of Jean Cocteau. Because so much of the Ransom Center's archives..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Les Enfants Terribles'

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

July 27, 2007 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

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

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

Hot Fun in the Summertime

Citywide Summer Film Series

"...Beauty and the Beast (D: Jean Cocteau, 1946): Sun, 8/3, 5 & 7pm..."

May 23, 2003 Screens Feature

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

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...ex-Antipopper Beans, freestyle fellow Aceyalone, Diverse, and buzz-bin breakout Jean Grae as exclamation to an already hard-hitting headlining of..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

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

Les Enfants Terribles

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

April 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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