The director Jean Cocteau admired the film, and wrote an introduction for it.

It developed from the earlier magazine Revue du Cinéma ( Review of the Cinema ) involving members of two Paris film clubs — Objectif 49 ( Objective 49 ) ( Robert Bresson, Jean Cocteau and Alexandre Astruc, among others ) and Ciné-Club du Quartier Latin ( Cinema Club of the Latin Quarter ).

During his life Cocteau was commander of the Legion of Honor, Member of the Mallarmé Academy, German Academy ( Berlin ), American Academy, Mark Twain ( U. S. A ) Academy, Honorary President of the Cannes film festival, Honorary President of the France-Hungary Association and President of the Jazz Academy and of the Academy of the Disc.

Jean Cocteau was one of the artists who exerted significant influences on Godard's films, and parallels between Alphaville and Cocteau's 1950 film Orpheus are evident.

When Jean Cocteau started making motion pictures, at the beginning of the 1930s Auric began writing film scores.

Jean Cocteau directed the 1948 film version of his play The Eagle with Two Heads.

* A key part of the 1950 film adaptation of the myth of Orpheus by Jean Cocteau is a mysterious radio station broadcasting random phrases ( in fact transmitted by Cégeste on the orders of Death ).

In 2009, the Cocteau Twins ' song " Alice " was used in Peter Jackson's film The Lovely Bones.

The production budget was a million francs, and was financed and produced by the Vicomte Charles de Noailles ( 1881 – 1981 ), a nobleman who, beginning in 1928, yearly commissioned a film as a birthday gift to his wife, the Vicomtesse Marie-Laure de Noailles ( 1902 – 1970 ), who was a renowned patroness of the arts and of artists, such as Dalí and Buñuel, Balthus, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Francis Poulenc, Jean Hugo, Jean-Michel Frank et alii.

Orpheus (; also the title used in the UK ) is a 1950 French film directed by Jean Cocteau and starring Jean Marais.

Throughout Orpheus, Cocteau uses very simple special effects and trick shots to show his characters passing into the world of death and back to life: They do so by stepping through mirrors, or else the film is reversed.

Under the auspices of Jean Cocteau, a prize for ' best avant-garde ' is specially created and awarded to Isou ’ s film.

The group was successful and in 1960 were asked by Jean Cocteau to provide music for his film, Le Testament d ' Orphée.

As the title indicates, the premise of the series is inspired by the fairy tale " Beauty and the Beast "; in particular, there is some connection to the Jean Cocteau French film of 1946, La Belle et la Bête.

This fact inspired Clouzot for his film Le Corbeau and Cocteau for his play La Machine à écrire.

* Jean Cocteau produced such acclaimed works as the poems of L ' Ange Heurtebise Angel Heurtebise ( 1925 ), the plays Orphée ( 1926 ) and Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde Knights Of The Round Table ( 1937 ), and the hauntingly beautiful and surreal 1945 film version of La Belle et la Bête aka Beauty and the Beast.

While living in France he mixed with Jean Cocteau, Jean Hugo and other members of the French artistic scene and in 1928 he made his first classic film, The Passion of Joan of Arc.

As a regular figure at music and poetry venues like Le Tabou on Rue Dauphine, Greco became acquainted with Miles Davis and Jean Cocteau, even being given a role in Cocteau ’ s film Orphée in 1949.

It was made into a film of the same name, a collaboration between Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville in 1950, and inspired the opera of the same name by Philip Glass.

The novel was also the basis of Jean Delannoy's 1961 film of the same title ( adapted by Jean Cocteau ), Manoel de Oliveira's 1999 film The Letter, and Andrzej Żuławski's 2000 film Fidelity ( starring Sophie Marceau ).

Dante has cited among his major influences Roger Corman, Chuck Jones, Frank Tashlin, James Whale, and Jean Cocteau, as well as an admiration for the film, Hellzapoppin ', from which he frequently borrows jokes because of how difficult the film is to see in the United States.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

It was paired with a Darius Milhaud opera, `` The Poor Sailor '', set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, a kind of Grand Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and gets done in by his wife.

She states in Volume One of her diaries that she drew inspiration from Marcel Proust, André Gide, Jean Cocteau, Paul Valéry, and Arthur Rimbaud.

Cahiers du Cinema authors also championed the work of directors Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini, Kenji Mizoguchi, Max Ophüls, and Jean Cocteau, by centering their critical evaluations on a film's mise en scène.

One of its practitioners, Erik Satie, collaborated with Picasso and Cocteau in a mad, scandalous ballet called Parade.

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

Cocteau was born in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, a village near Paris, to Georges Cocteau and his wife, Eugénie Lecomte ; a socially prominent Parisian family.

His father was a lawyer and amateur painter who committed suicide when Cocteau was nine.

Cocteau soon became known in Bohemian artistic circles as The Frivolous Prince, the title of a volume he published at twenty-two.

In his early twenties, Cocteau became associated with the writers Marcel Proust, André Gide, and Maurice Barrès.

During World War I Cocteau served in the Red Cross as an ambulance driver.

Russian choreographer Sergei Diaghilev persuaded Cocteau to write a scenario for a ballet, which resulted in Parade, in 1917.

" If it had not been for Apollinaire in uniform ," wrote Cocteau, " with his skull shaved, the scar on his temple and the bandage around his head, women would have gouged our eyes out with hairpins.

" Cocteau denied being a Surrealist or being in any way attached to the movement.

Cocteau wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex, which had its original performance in the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt in Paris on May 30, 1927.

An important exponent of avant-garde art, Cocteau had great influence on the work of others, including the group of composers known as Les six.

In the early twenties, he and other members of Les six frequented a wildly popular bar named Le Boeuf sur le Toit, a name that Cocteau himself had a hand in picking.

The popularity was due in no small measure to the presence of Cocteau and his friends.

Cocteau also got Radiguet exempted from military service.

Admiring of Radiguet's great literary talent, Cocteau promoted his friend's works in his artistic circle and arranged for the publication by Grasset of Le Diable au corps ( a largely autobiographical story of an adulterous relationship between a married woman and a younger man ), exerting his influence to have the novel awarded the " Nouveau Monde " literary prize.

Cocteau himself was aware of this perception, and worked earnestly to dispel the notion that their relationship was sexual in nature.

Cocteau himself much later characterised his reaction as one of " stupor and disgust.

" His opium addiction at the time, Cocteau said, was only coincidental, due to a chance meeting with Louis Laloy, the administrator of the Monte Carlo Opera.

Cocteau was supported throughout his recovery by his friend and correspondent philosopher Jacques Maritain.