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DVD005190

Orpheus

Cocteau, Jean

Criterion Collection, 2011

Description:

BluRay - Zone A.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.
b/w.   fullscreen.   sound - Dolby digital monaural.  

Notes:

Supplemental features include: audio commentary by James S. Williams (film scholar); interview with Claude Pinoteau (asst. director) (2008, 14 min); newsreel footage of the “ruins” location used in the film (1950, 2 min); image gallery; theatrical trailer. Essay booklet available from checkout.

Titles

+ Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown

Alternate Title:

Jean Cocteau: Autoportrait d’un Inconnu

Director:

Cozarinsky, Edgardo

Production Co:

Antenne 2; L' Institut National de l'Audiovisuel; Ministère Français de la Culture; Antegor; JC Productions

Running Time:

Short.   67 minutes

Sound:

sound - Dolby digital monaural

Color:

color and b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1984

Language:

French with optional English subtitles

Genre:

Documentary, Biography, Television Production

Notes:

Documentary tribute on the life and work of Jean Cocteau originally made for French television and narrated in English. Includes interviews and footage of Cocteau shot over many years.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ 40 Minutes with Jean Cocteau

Alternate Title:

At Home With ... Jean Cocteau

Director:

Barrère, Igor

Running Time:

Short.   41 minutes

Sound:

sound - Dolby digital monaural

Color:

b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1957

Language:

French with optional English subtitles

Genre:

Interview, Television Production

Notes:

From the television program “At Home With ...” originally broadcast on Aug 28, 1957.

+ In Search of Jazz

Director:

Cocteau, Jean

Running Time:

Short.   18 minutes

Sound:

sound - Dolby digital monaural

Color:

b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1956

Language:

French with optional English subtitles

Genre:

Interview, Television Production

Notes:

From the television program “In Search of Jazz” originally broadcast on April 24, 1956.

+ Villa Santo-Sospir, La

Director:

Cocteau, Jean

Running Time:

Short.   37 minutes

Sound:

sound - Dolby digital monaural

Color:

color and b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1951

Language:

French with optional English subtitles

Genre:

Documentary

Notes:

Shot between 1950-2. A guided tour in a villa in Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat, owned by millionaire Francine Weissweiller where Cocteau was a guest for a long time, together with adopted son Edouard Dermit. He made the decorations on the inside walls of the villa and, in this medium length film, shot in 16mm and Kodachrome (his only film in Technicolor), it offers us the documentation of the works. (tglff.com)

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Orpheus

Alternate Title:

Orphée

Director:

Cocteau, Jean

Production Co:

Films du Palais Royal

Running Time:

Feature.   95 minutes

Sound:

sound - Dolby digital monaural

Color:

b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1950

Language:

French with optional English subtitles

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde

Notes:

A modern, surrealist version of the Orpheus myth. A famous poet finds himself caught between the realms of the living and the dead. Supplemental features include: audio commentary by James S. Williams (film scholar); JEAN COCTEAU: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN UNKNOWN (Edgardo Cozarinsky, 1984, 67 min); interview with Claude Pinoteau (asst. director) (2008, 14 min); 40 MINUTES WITH JEAN COCTEAU (interview, Igor Barrère, 1957, 41 min ); IN SEARCH OF JAZZ (interview with Cocteau, 1956, 18 mim); LA VILLA SANTA-SOSPIR (Cocteau, 1951, 37 min); newsreel footage of the “ruins” location used in the film (1950, 2 min); image gallery; theatrical trailer. Essay booklet available from checkout.

Link to:

FII catalog |