Wednesday, September 10, 2025 From 7:15 PM To 9:15 PM Add to Calendar 2025-09-10 19:15:00 2025-09-10 21:15:00 Ciné Club Series: Beauty and the Beast (1946) by Jean Cocteau Launch of our new Page to Screen series at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline. This program explores major literary works adapted for the screen, featuring film screenings followed by conversations. Coolidge Corner Theater, 290 Harvard St, Brookline, MA 02446, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States America/New_York
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About Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau was a French writer, poet, playwright, and filmmaker whose work bridged multiple artistic disciplines. A key figure in 20th-century French cultural life, Cocteau was associated with the avant-garde but maintained a singular, personal style that often drew from mythology, dreams, and classical literature.
As an author, he is best known for Les Enfants Terribles and a number of plays that combine poetic language with psychological insight. In film, Cocteau developed a highly personal visual style, as seen in works such as The Blood of a Poet (1930) and Orpheus (1950), which explore identity, death, and the role of the artist. His cinematic work is noted for its poetic logic, innovative use of effects, and fusion of theatrical and cinematic techniques.
About Nicholas Elliott
Nicholas Elliott is a film programmer and the American correspondent for Cahiers du Cinéma in New York. He is also a Contributing Editor for Film at BOMB magazine. His writing has appeared in Film Comment, The Criterion Collection, 4Columns, Extra Extra Magazine, and in anthologies on filmmakers such as Chantal Akerman and Philippe Garrel.
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