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Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy Jean Cocteau Exploring the complex relationship between reality and imagination, Jean Cocteau used the Orphic myth as the inspiration for three masterful motion pictures. This box-set collects all three films, considered "among the most inventive and aesthetically satisfying in the history of cinema" (Ephraim Katz, The Film Encyclopedia): The Blood of a Poet (1930, 50 mins.), Orpheus (1949, 95 mins.) and Testament of Orpheus (1959, 80 mins.). All in French with optional English subtitles. The DVD includes Cocteau's 1952 short, "Villa Santo Sospir," the documentary "Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown" (Edgardo Cozarinsky, 1983, 66 mins.), lecture transcripts, essays and more. France, 1930-1959. DVD $99.95
Beauty and the Beast Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau's superb adaptation of Marie Leprince de Beaumont's dark fairy tale is a ferociously inventive and stylized depiction of erotic obsession, about a young woman's discovery of a ravaged soul beneath a monstrous beast. With Jean Marais, Josette Day and Marcel Andre. Cinematography by Henri Alekan. "A sensuously fascinating film, the visual progression of the fable into a dream-world casts its unpredictable spell" (Bosley Crowther, New York Times). French with English subtitles. The DVD is a Criterion Collection edition; includes an original opera written for the film by Philip Glass, commentaries by film historian Arthur Knight and cultural historian Christopher Frayling, an interview with Henri Alekan, original trailer narrated by Cocteau, photos and much more. France, 1946, 93 mins. DVD $59.95
Testament of Orpheus Jean Cocteau After 70 years of life and 29 years of filmmaking, Jean Cocteau waves goodbye to films, and this, his last work, is a compendium of his cinematic style. We meet Cocteau wandering in the 18th century only to be brought into the 20th where he encounters Gypsies, evil omens and the dead poet of Orphee. With appearances by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Yul Brynner, Maria Casares and other notable figures. Digitally mastered from a new print, newly subtitled. French with English subtitles. France, 1960, 79 mins. Videocassette $44.95