077: Jean Cocteau’s LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE (Beauty and the Beast, 1946)
- Author
- Matthew Porter and Ian Porter
- Published
- Mon 18 Oct 2021
- Episode Link
- https://www.immproject.com/077
Continuing the Spooky Castle theme begun with DRACULA, the podcast looks at a unique, surreal French film that is simultaneousy weird, creepy and romantic. It's Jean Cocteau's 1946 film LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE (Beauty and the Beast).
Links:
- Beauty and the Beast (1946 film) - Wikipedia
- Jean Cocteau - Wikipedia
- Josette Day - Wikipedia
- Jean Marais - Wikipedia
- Previously on IMMP: DRACULA (1931, starring Bela Lugosi)
- Brows Held High and Some Jerk with a Camera's Beauty and the Beast Crossover! - YouTube
- Previously on IMMP: THE ADDAMS FAMILY from 1964 TV
- Suns in alchemy - Wikipedia — A green lion consuming the sun is a common alchemical image and is seen in texts such as the Rosarium philosophorum. The symbol is a metaphor for aqua regia (the green lion) consuming matter (the sun), gold.
- Enkidu - Wikipedia — wartime comrade and friend of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk.
- Tower of Hanoi - Wikipedia
- Luis Buñuel - Wikipedia
- Previously on IMMP: SUPERMAN (1978)
