Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 16—The Jean Cocteau Cinema is becoming so much more than a cinema. Over the course of pandemic closures, the cinema has ...

HONG KONG — I fell in love with Jean Cocteau when I was 19. I spent nights taking photographs of his epic 1930 film The Blood of a Poet frame by frame. The infatuation was similar to one I had with ...

Surrealist writer, artist and filmmaker Jean Cocteau first showed up on my radar in 2009 while I was researching a book about eccentric French decorator and antiquaire Madeleine Castaing. Her radical ...

The Jean Cocteau Severin Wunderman Collection Museum in Menton, France, which opened its doors onto views of the Côte d'Azur over the weekend, is a vast, bleached, stone structure eight years in the ...

In Blood of a Poet, the first film in Jean Cocteau’s Orphic trilogy, photographer Lee Miller stars as a statue who comes to life. Other images in the film include people using mirrors as doors between ...

In 1957 the French banker Louis Martinon asked artist and poet Jean Cocteau to lend his illustrious drawing style to a church he wanted to build in the small village Fréjus in the Côte d'Azur. Fresh ...

Jean Cocteau: A Life, by Claude Arnaud, trans. Lauren Elkin and Charlotte Mandel (Yale University Press, 1,014 pp., $40) Looking for “The Stranger”: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic, by ...

Jean Cocteau has received a bit more ink than usual this year thanks to the No. 1 bestseller “The Da Vinci Code,” in which novelist Dan Brown asserts that the famed avant-garde French artist was a ...

It is not altogether surprising to learn that the dominant feeling of Cocteau’s life was unhappiness, at least as it unfolds in Claude Arnaud’s massive biography. His Cocteau is a vain, self-seeking, ...

In between the stark ravishment of 1946’s “Beauty and the Beast” and 1950’s edgy enchantment “Orpheus,” France’s art-hyphenate master Jean Cocteau filmed an adaptation of his ‘30s play “Les Parents ...