How To Use Cocteau In A Sentence
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He also did sets for Jean Cocteau's play Antigone.
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Cocteau, he added, protected his speech with short, tense and elliptical lines which formed a barrier between himself and the reader.
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The film director Jean Cocteau was a very strange man, in a decidedly French way.
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Just like Cocteau, it is impossible to pigeon-hole Paul Miller as an artist.
Charles Fabius: Jean Cocteau Goes Multimedia at the Guggenheim
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The circus was just as much an art form as the symphony now, prompting Cocteau's pamphlet Le coq et l' arlequin which saw the national symbol of France reaching an accommodation with harlequinade.
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The Sky is Simply White
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But there is always something more to Cocteau's films than the simple reductionism of ordinary interpretation.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas but with subtler undercurrents: a velveteen tunnel, an imprisoning mirror, plus coddling-then-frightening parental "others" recalling the mythologies of Cocteau's fantasy films and the Mother / Meat sequence of Bunuel's
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She'd come on an intellectual pilgrimage in search of French cineastes who could discuss the films of Renoir, Cocteau, Bunuel.
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‘The Cocteau Twins basically sorted me out as a teenager,’ says Steven McConnell bluntly, being the only representative of the team behind Benbecula who will break the anonymity barrier so beloved of many electronic acts.
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Like Freud, Stravinsky takes King Oedipus as his sole source, though the libretto by Jean Cocteau employs a dramaturgy often seen as pre-empting the alienation effects of Brechtian theatre.
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The interconnecting of memory, dream and landscape captured a realm of enchantment echoing the cinema of Tarkovsky and Cocteau.
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Cocteau's jazz club was the spot where artists gossiped and drank.
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Smith notes how Cocteau once said of a Jean Genet poem, "His obscenity is never obscene.
"Ziggy played for time, jiving us that we were voodoo."
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But its dreamscape reminds me as much of Cocteau's ancient figures marooned in modernity, speaking like ghosts or halfrealized human beings.
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Richter later spent some time in America, where, among other things, he collaborated with Jean Cocteau on the late surrealist romp 8x8: A Chess Sonata (portions of which are also online — check out this sequence featuring Paul Bowles awakening to compose from a slowly draining swimming pool.) posted by Matthew @ 10: 00 AM
Hats Off
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Far from unquestioningly loyal, he once remarked to Cocteau of the communists: "I have joined a family, and like all families, it's full of shit, " Richardson reports.
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Not too long ago I played some of this for a friend, who was interested when he saw that Liz Fraser of the Cocteau Twins guested on one or two tracks.
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His 13-year personal relationship with the vocalist of The Cocteaus, was on the rocks and his former drug and alcohol abuse was not making a naturally chippy personality any happier.
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His work connects us to Cocteau, François Mauriac and other French novelists.
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Somehow, the Gance film is most startling in this department, as the women's bared breasts and the men's bared bottoms -- not to mention the devastatingly unleashed female libido portrayed -- are couched in an opulent production that marries the rustic fantasia of Cocteau's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST to a velvety color cinematography that recalls THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD or, better yet, one of the early Disney animated features.
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Yet Cocteau made ‘the noblest and most exalted claims’ for poets, and the poet's immortality is very special and real.
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All that is required is patience, as these beautiful, shimmering homages to the Cocteau Twins and Bola unfold at their own pace, in their own time, revealing secrets upon repeated listening.
