Tag Archives: Jean Cocteau

YANG FUDONG’S NEW WOMEN: COMMUNING WITH NEW FILMMAKING

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Jim Clark

Amidst all the buzz of anticipation about the Toronto Film Festival in September, something very quiet and very engaging has settled into the exhibition space at TIFF. Chinese visual artist and filmmaker, Yang Fudong, was commissioned by TIFF to develop … Continue reading →

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JEAN COCTEAU: AN ARTIST NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Jim Clark

During the German Occupation of Paris, Jean Cocteau, assisted by his friend, Jean Marais, shook off a decade-long oblivion due to opium addiction, and wrote the script for Robert Bresson’s film, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1944/1945).

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VALENTINES IN VINTAGE GRAPHICS

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Jim Clark

An old pop song runs, “Love is a many-splendored thing;” and we have the testimony of a vast array of graphic art to establish how varied loving relations can be. One of the more challenging but also. I think, more … Continue reading →

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PARIS, OF COURSE (First of a series on Paris, and other great cities)

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Jim Clark

Rue de l,arbre sec (Street of the Dry Tree), the site of the gallows in medieval Paris, and also the site of the once-glorious Art Nouveau department store, La Samaritaine, now shut down (just off the right foreground of the … Continue reading →

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