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 ...

Chloe Cassens became a steward of her grandfather’s collection of works by Jean Cocteau. Studio Lazareff @studiolazareff As a student of history and an educator, Cassens is acutely aware of the stakes ...

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 ...

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, ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1615): Clever that Berenice Abbot’s 1927 photo of Jean Cocteau should have been included in the show called “Female Gaze II” now at Cheim & Read gallery in New York. Of course it does ...

It wasn’t only through his films, or even through his advocacy on behalf of the art of the cinema, that Jean Cocteau was a crucial influence on the French New Wave. His diary of the making of “Beauty ...