Jean Marais
Series
Criterion collection volume 296
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
A chance encounter on a canal bridge results in a series of twilight rendezvous between a lonely city transplant and a sheltered woman haunted by a lover's promise.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A nineteen year old girl spends the summer in Italy, determined to fulfill two dreams. The first, to consummate the romance with the Italian boy she fell in love with four years earlier, and the second, to discover the identity of her father through clues in her mother's diary.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Français
Description
In his last film Cocteau portrays an 18th century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets several symbolic phantoms that bring about his death and resurrection. The film finished the circle of the journey begun in Blood of a Poet, exploring the torturous relationship between the artist and his creations.
Series
Criterion collection volume 244
Publisher
Criterion Collecttion
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Français
Description
Ingrid Bergman plays a beautiful, impoverished Polish princess in turn-of-the-century Paris. Having sold her last pearl to pay the rent, Princess Elena accepts a marriage proposal from a wealthy suitor for reasons of finance rather than love.
Series
Criterion collection volume 6
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Français
Description
A restoration of the original 1946 French film, telling the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Pierre Souvestre's Fantomas was originally adapted for the screen by legendary filmmaker Louis Feuilade (Les vampires) in 1913. Andre Hunebelle (OSS 117 : mission for a killer) introduced a revamped and modernized version of Fantomas to the 1960s OSS 117 and 007 audience. All three films starred the great Jean Marais (Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast) as Fantomas, a criminal mastermind and man of a thousand faces. The three films co-starred Louis...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is innocent enough; his engagement, however, threatens to reveal dark secrets lurking within his family's home.
Series
Criterion collection volume 6
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
The sublime adaptation by Jean Cocteau of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont's fairy-tale masterpiece, in which the true love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral, but gentle beast, is a landmark feat of motion picture fantasy, with unforgettably romantic performances by Jean Marais and Josette Day. The spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death have become timeless icons of cinematic wonder.