Posts Tagged ‘Jean Cocteau’
An Appreciation – Beauty and the Beast
One of the best sequences in Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast, 1946) comes when Belle (Josette Day) first enters the castle of the mysterious Beast (Jean Marais). Done completely in slow motion, we see her come into the main…
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SIFF Film Review – Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
Somewhere close to the beginning of Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton, James Broughton says that all films are documentaries in that they are all a document of a soul. While I don’t necessarily agree with him, Big Joy is a document of James…
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An Appreciation – L’Atalante
There are good filmmakers, there are great filmmakers, and then there’s Jean Vigo. In the history of great directors that have come and gone, Jean Vigo’s name stands in a class all its own. Very few directors have made such an impression on me with…
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