Jean Cocteau
Directing
- Born:
- 1889-07-05
- Died:
- 1963-10-11
- Place of birth:
- Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
Biography
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other avant-garde artists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the algebra of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde.[citation needed] His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf (whom he cast in one of his one-act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940), and Raymond Radiguet. His work was played out in the theatrical world of the Grands Theatres, the Boulevards and beyond during the Parisian epoque he both lived through and helped define and create. His versatile, unconventional approach and enormous output brought him international acclaim. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Cocteau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Jean Cocteau
Daedalus
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
Morceaux de Cannes
A Night at the Opera
Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
The Image Book
Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
Callas Assoluta
To Each His Own Cinema
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
Cocteau and Company
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
Steel Cathedrals
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
In This Atrocious Garden
Pour le plaisir
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
The Infernal Machine
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
In Search of Marcel Proust
Beyond the Riviera
America as Seen by a Frenchman
Testament of Orpheus
Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
Discorama
Musée Grévin
It Happened on the 36 Candles
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
En direct de...
Cinépanorama
Around the World with Orson Welles
Eine Melodie - vier Maler
Reflets de Cannes
La Villa Santo-Sospir
Venom and Eternity
Colette
Disorder
Orpheus
The Strange Ones
The Century Is Fifty
Daughter of the Sands
The Storm Within
Beauty and the Beast
Black Friendship
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
La Malibran
The Phantom Baron
The Blood of a Poet
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema