Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) was long considered a masterpiece before Philip Glass decided to write an opera that would meld with the classic 1946 film on stage. Glass’ ...

Born from dreams of celluloid, Orestes is a Greek-American writer based in London with degrees in Screenwriting, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature, as well as years of experience in ...

The curtain rises on one of San Francisco's most exciting arts events of the year next week as Opera Parallèle presents the world premiere of its innovative take on "La Belle et La Bête" (Beauty and ...

Disney films are without doubt the pinnacle of children's and animated movies. To mark the release of the remake «The Jungle Book», we take a look back at the studio's animated masterpieces.

Director Jean Cocteau's rendering of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's classic fairy tale is filled with dreamlike, romantic imagery.

This astonishingly original presentation of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast blurs the distinctions between film and live opera, merging Jean Cocteau's classic 1946 romantic fantasy with Philip ...