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Fairy tales -- Film adaptations.
Contes de fées -- Adaptations cinématographiques.
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Fairy tales -- Film adaptations.
Contes de fées -- Adaptations cinématographiques.
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Beauty and the beast [videorecording (
DVD
)].
Criterion Collection, 2003.
Call #:
DVD
BEA
1946
Subjects
Fairy tales -- Film adaptations.
Contes de fées -- Adaptations cinématographiques.
Series
Criterion collection 6.
Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
Essential art house.
ISBN:
0780026098
9781604650754 (2008 Essential Art House ed.)
1604650753 (2008 Essential Art House ed.)
Alternate title:
Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the beast [videorecording (
DVD
)].
Essential art house. Beauty and the beast [videorecording (
DVD
)]
Belle et la bête [videorecording (
DVD
)]
Format:
[videorecording (
DVD
)].
Description:
1 videodisc (93 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.
Notes:
Based on the fantasy romance story by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont.
Originally released as a motion picture in
1946
.
Special features (Criterion Collection ed.): Screening at the Majestic, a 1995 documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew ; interview with cinematographer Henri Alekan ; two commentary tracks: one featuring film historian Arthur Knight, and the second featuring writer/cultural historian Sir Christopher Frayling ; rare behind-the-scenes and publicity stills ; original trailer ; film restoration demonstration ; 1995 restoration trailer ; a reprint of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont's original fable, translated from the French ; notes by Francis Steegmuller from his landmark book, Cocteau: a biography ; a note about the film by Cocteau.
Program content : SNC, 2002.
1.33:1 aspect ratio.
At head of title: Janus Films presents.
Please note: Some copies are the 2008 Essential Art House editions which do not have any special features. See holdings.
Home use only.
In French with optional English subtitles.
Production:
Directed by Jean Cocteau.
Performers:
Jean Marais and Josette Day with Mila Parély, Nane Germon, Michael Auclair, Raoul Marco and Marcel André.
Summary:
"Jean Cocteau reinvented the fairy tale for the cinema with this enchanting, exquisitely realized version of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont's fantasy romance. With all manner of unparalleled visual effects and photographic tricks, Cocteau makes the spellbinding tale of transformative love both ethereal and tangible, and his indelible images still haunt the cinema like no others."--Container.
Genre:
French films.
Foreign films.
Fantasy films.
Romance films.
Films français.
Films fantastiques.
Films d'amour.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Leprince de Beaumont, Madame (Jeanne-Marie), 1711-1780. Belle et la bête.
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963.
Marais, Jean, 1913-1998.
Day, Josette, 1914-1972.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
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Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Feature DVDs
DVD BEA 1946
Adult Dvds-7 Days
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Adult Feature DVDs
DVD BEA 1946
Adult Dvds-7 Days
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