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Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
Cocteau, at his home, remembers his childhood, talks at length about theater, cinema, literature, and draws portraits of friends.
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10
In This Atrocious Garden
In This Atrocious Garden
This short documentary film is conceived as a stroll through the valley of Thebes and the temple of Karnak.
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6.4
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
In August 1963, just a couple of months before his death, Jean Cocteau made one last short film. The film comprises one still and highly sober shot of Cocteau facing the camera head-on ...
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Marcel Proust – Portrait Souvenir
Marcel Proust – Portrait Souvenir
This documentary is a portrait of Proust composed of recollections by those who knew him. Intercut with reading from his works.
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Beyond the Riviera
Beyond the Riviera
Travelogue exploring the coastline, towns and surrounding mountains of the French Riviera.
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6.4
America as Seen by a Frenchman
America as Seen by a Frenchman
At the end of the 1950s, French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months traveling the United States, documenting its diverse regions, their inhabitants, and their ...
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7.6
Testament of Orpheus
Testament of Orpheus
Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas Athena, the spear of the Goddess ...
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Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
In 1959, Jean Cocteau looked back on his artistic journey for the Télé Monte-Carlo television show Tout la vérité, rien que la vérité. The program ends with a tasty anecdote about ...
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5.9
8 X 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
8 X 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements is an American experimental film directed by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Cocteau. Described by Richter as "part Freud, part Lewis ...
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7.2
La Villa Santo-Sospir
La Villa Santo-Sospir
Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of a friend's villa on the French coast (a major location used in Testament of Orpheus). The house itself is heavily decorated, mostly by Cocteau (and ...
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6.7
Venom and Eternity
Venom and Eternity
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and ...
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The Century Is Fifty
The Century Is Fifty
As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of several European film reserves, director ...