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Unif Title Orphée (Motion picture)
Title Orphée [videorecording] = Orpheus / Janus Films ; SNC Groupe M6 ; CNC A Archives françaises du film présentent ; André Paulvé présente ; un film écrit et réalisé par Jean Cocteau ; directeur de production, Émile Darbon ; une production André Paulvé, Films du Palais Royal, Discina.
Publisher [Irvington, N.Y.?] : Criterion Collection, ©2011.
Edition Two-DVD special ed., Full screen.
Description 2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
book jacket
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 CLP Main (Oakland) Second Floor Film & Audio - World Language Film  FRENCH DVD Orpheus     Checked Out
 Downtown (CLP) First Floor - Audiovisual Collection  FRENCH DVD Orpheus     Checked Out

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Series The Criterion collection ; 68
Criterion collection ; 68.
Note In French; with optional English subtitles.
Cast Jean Marais, François Périer, Maria Casarès, Marie Déa.
Credits Director of photography, Nicolas Heyer; editor, Jacqueline Sadoul; music, Georges Auric.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1950.
"New digital restoration"--Container.
System Det DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Note Accompanying material may include booklet (27 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) comprising an essay by author Mark Polizzotti, an excerpted article by Jean Cocteau on the film, and an essay on La villa Santo-Sospir by James S. Williams.
Summary A 1950 update of the Orphic myth by Jean Cocteau that depicts a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead through a mirrored portal.
Note Special features: audio commentary by French-film scholar James S. Williams; Jean Cocteau : autobiography of an unknown (1984), a feature-length documentary; Jean Cocteau and his tricks (2008), a video interview with assistant director Claude Pinoteau; 40 minutes with Jean Cocteau (1957), an interview with the director; In search of jazz (1956), an interview with Cocteau on the use of jazz in the film; La villa Santo-Sospir (1951), a 16 mm color film by Cocteau; gallery of images by French-film portrait photographer Roger Corbeau; raw newsreel footage from 1950 of the Saint-Cyr military academy ruins, a location used in the film; theatrical trailer.
Subject Orpheus (Greek mythological character) -- Drama.
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Poets, French -- Drama.
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Genre Experimental films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Addt'l Author Paulvé, André.
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963.
Darbon, Émile.
Marais, Jean, 1913-1998.
Périer, François.
Casarès, Maria.
Déa, Marie.
Auric, Georges, 1899-1983.
Janus Films.
Société nouvelle de cinématographie.
Archives françaises du film.
Films du Palais Royal (Production Company)
Discina Film (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Alt Title Orpheus
Orphée
Addt'l Title Jean Cocteau, autobiography of an unknown.
Villa Santa-Sospir.
ISBN 9781604654646
1604654643
Publishers # CC2050D