Decadent, subversive, and bristling with artistic invention, the myth-born cinema of Jean Cocteau disturbs as much as it charms. Cocteau was the most versatile of artists in prewar Paris. Poet, ...

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: Pixar’s Soul was supposed to hit theaters. In ...

The romantic but tragic Greek myth about Orpheus and Eurydice was updated to contemporary time in the 1950s movies “Orphee” and “Orfeu Negro.” French filmmaker Jean Cocteau wrote and directed the ...

The Criterion Collection knows that when you need something poetic done right, look to the French. The legendary repairmen of film's history have chosen a tale of art house poetry as one of their ...