Word: cocteau
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...Sets in the Cinema: The Movies and Modern Architecture" (with the Boston Architectural Center). In his diverse approach to programming, focusing on local as well as established talent, obscure as well as acclaimed films, Kleiler clearly offers some bit of funkiness for all tastes, from Astaire and Rogers to Cocteau, Polanski and Zedd...
...Parisian dramatist Jean Cocteau once characterized his fellow Frenchmen as a bunch of Italians in a bad mood. As thumbnail assessments go, that may have been incomplete, but it was not too far off the mark. France last week continued to be seized by a wave of train and other public-service strikes that have disrupted the country for a month. Not only was the typical Frenchman's mood even sourer than usual, but there were numerous signs that French political life, and daily life for that matter, was Italianizing at the edges. The successive crises that have beset...
...about a homosexual murderer, then a novel about a male prostitute, Our Lady of the Flowers (1943). Scandalized, the eminent critic Paul Valery declared, "This must be burned." Others strongly disagreed. In 1948, when Genet faced a life term as a repeat offender, Sartre, Andre Gide, Paul Claudel, Jean Cocteau and other literati circulated a petition protesting the sentence. It won Genet a presidential pardon...
Those disenchanted with the run-of-the-mill and seeking films by the likes of Truffaut, Fellini and Cocteau can satiate their Euro-urge at The Brattle Theater (40 Brattle St.). Up until July 11, the cozy movie house will feature its annual Janus Film Festival with movies by popular Eastern and Western European directors. Films from the fifties like James Dean's classic Rebel Without A Cause and and an occasional late night 1960s film will round out the rest of the summer. The Janus Theater (57 JFK in the Galeria) also shows foreign films, though it is currently...
...snobbery?" he asks his children and concludes that "I can frankly answer no." Yet he cannot forbear reminding them of all the impressive people and places they have experienced, thanks solely to their relationship to him. While he was hobnobbing with crowned heads and the likes of Chaplin, Cocteau and Jean Renoir, he always made sure that the physicians who watched over him and his growing brood were "world famous," or at the very least "big." At Hotchkiss, one of the innumerable schools they attended, trailing behind their father's impulse to establish, then break up permanent homes, there...