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	Beauty and the Beast : Comics SuperHeroes Cartoons
		Beauty And The Beast - Angela Lansbury From "Beauty And The Beast"
		Beauty And The Beast - Celine Dion And Peabo Bryson From "Beauty And The Beast"
		Beauty and the Beast (in French: La Belle et la Bête) is a French film, made in 1946, based on the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast".
	cartoons-comics.deepthi.com /comic-hero-beauty-and-the-beast.html (527 words)

	Film as Art: Danél Griffin's Guide to Cinema
		Beauty is, of course, the fairest maiden in the kingdom, and the purest in heart.
		Beauty’s reaction to the Beast is one of sincere shock and horror, and her transition into sympathy and love are believable and poignant, and it compliments our own.
		The Beast himself is a wonderful creation—a sort of hybrid between man, werewolf, and saber-tooth tiger, and he is played as keenly aware of his monstrosity as the other characters are, yet determined to prove his gentle heart to a woman who he loves.
	uashome.alaska.edu /~jndfg20/website/beautyandthebeast.htm (615 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Beauty and the Beast Film Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is one of the most stunningly beautiful films in the long history of the cinema, a film that, in its day, made people fall in love not merely with its gorgeous stars, Jean Marais and Josette Day, but with the very idea of the movies.
		With its unbearably lush images, borrowed from the Flemish masters, and its symbols imported from Freudian psychology, Beauty and the Beast is a stately and sexy parable of desire, a very grown-up bedtime story.
		Beauty and the Beast began for Cocteau a career of unparalleled originality in the cinema.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/fnf96n4.html (1027 words)

	DVDCC.COM: Beauty And The Beast (criterion Collection) DVD REVIEW
		Beauty and the Beast is perhaps the most known fable centered on a prince being cursed into a monster, and the woman that fell in love with him who then brings him back to his pervious self.
		Directed by Jean Cocteau, this Beauty and the Beast has stark differences from what we are used to, most namely being the much darker, much more evil nature of the Beast as well as his dwelling.
		The 1946 film that is Beauty and the Beast is not what you might think it is. The Disney film is not at all a re-make of this film, rather a different take on the same tale.
	dvdcc.com /review.php?beautyandthebeast1947criterion (890 words)

	Beauty and the Beast by Terri Windling
		Beauty and the Beast provides us with an interesting example to consider, because while we generally think of it as an anonymous story handed down from the distant past, in fact, the tale is a literary one penned by two French writers of the 16th century.
		Beauty's actions, such as going to the Beast's castle in her father's stead, are not simply attributed to either blind obedience (de Villeneuve) or honor (de Beaumont), but to the heroine's acceptance of the predestined fate that lies before her.
		Beauty's nightly refusal of the Beast and the slow awakening of both her attraction and her sexuality are contrasted with the Beast's struggles to contain his own animal nature.
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	Beauty and the Beast
		Beauty then feared she had been the cause of his death; she ran crying and wringing her hands all about the palace, like one in despair; after having sought for him everywhere, she recollected her dream, and flew to the canal in the garden, where she dreamed she saw him.
		Beast was disappeared, and she saw, at her feet, one of the loveliest princes that eye ever beheld; who returned her thanks for having put an end to the charm, under which he had so long resembled a Beast.
		Beauty, agreeably surprised, gave the charming prince her hand to rise; they went together into the castle, and Beauty was overjoyed to find, in the great hall, her father and his whole family, whom the beautiful lady, that appeared to her in her dream, had conveyed thither.
	www.pitt.edu /~dash/beauty.html (4091 words)

	Beauty And The Beast
		The walls of the Beast's mansion are lined with disembodied arms which willingly surrender their candelabras to passersby and point them in the proper direction.
		In order to appreciate this film, you have to accept that Cocteau is less interested in drama and logic than he is in presenting beautiful and imaginative imagery, and a story which tugs at the heart strings.
		In the beginning of the film, he tries to force her to love him in a manner true to his beastly nature.
	www.net-monster.com /classicfilms_beautyandthebeast.html (675 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête): The Criterion Collection
		His Beauty and the Beast, though, is not only the most wholly satisfying of his films, it's one of the wonders of fl-and-white photography, style, and narrative.
		The film's sumptuous visual compositions and atmospheric brush strokes of light and shadow are credited to cameraman Henri Alekan, whose scenes at Belle's rural home point directly to the 17th century paintings of Vermeer.
		Yet throughout Cocteau's film we watch the gradual awakening of both her attraction and her sexuality, as well as the Beast's fight to suppress his wild animal nature.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/b/beautyandthebeast_cc.shtml (2988 words)

	The Bank Dick (1940) – by Roger Ebert*
		Her father rises up from his deathbed, the Beast sinks into a final illness instead, and when she begs him to rally, his dying words are pathetic: “If I were a man, perhaps I could.
		Then there is another death, of the faithless family friend who wanted to marry her, and as his body turns into that of the Beast, the Beast comes back to life and turns into a prince who looks uncannily like—the dead friend.
		Cocteau’s film included images that became famous, as when a mirror turns into a pool of water, and when a mouth wiped off a painting affixes itself to his hand.
	www.coldbacon.com /movies/beautyandthebeast-ebert.html (1246 words)

	Beauty and the Beast (1946)
		The Beast informs Beauty’s father that he has taken the one thing in all the castle and its grounds which is off-limits to visitors, and that he will pay with his life for the transgression.
		Beauty, arguing plausibly that the whole mess would never have happened if she hadn’t asked her father to bring back a rose, makes the journey to the Beast’s castle, where she gets a rather different reception than she had anticipated.
		When Beauty tells her sisters late in the film that at the Beast’s castle, “invisible hands dress me,” she’s describing a phenomenon that would take a hell of a lot of getting used to, and Cocteau never loses sight of that.
	www.1000misspenthours.com /reviews/reviewsa-d/beautyandthebeast1946.htm (1539 words)

	DVD Breakdown \| Beauty and the Beast (1946)
		The animated Beast is quickly domesticized by learning table manners and some ballroom dance steps, and the enchanted castle is presented as a practical location full of lively furniture rather than an uncharted, mysterious domain ruled by the dark recesses of fears from the subconscious.
		None of this is surprising, as Disney films have done their utmost to steer clear of potentially disturbing dream imagery since the early 1940s (the terrifying forest scene from Snow White and the Pleasure Island trip in Pinocchio apparently predating this policy).
		Beauty and the Beast was one of the first releases in the Criterion Collection DVD catalogue, but has now been reissued with additional extras and a stunning new transfer.
	www.dvdbreakdown.com /titles/beautyandthebeast1946.html (1061 words)

	Beauty and the Beast
		Beauty and the Beast was written in 1756 by Mme.
		Marais recalled the evolution of the Beast in his autobiography, "For my mask we went to Pontet, an elderly gentleman, a real genius, one of those men who make you realize that one can be passionately in love with one's work, whatever it might be.
		Old cameras and lenses were unreliable, film stock was inconsistent, electricity was intermittent, there was small choice of fabrics for costumes and sets and both Cocteau and Marais were plagued with ailments.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDBeautyBeast.htm (667 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: Beauty and the Beast (xhtml)
		Before Disney's 1991 film and long before the Beast started signing autographs in Orlando, Jean Cocteau filmed "Beauty and the Beast" in 1946, in France.
		Then there is another death, of the faithless family friend who wanted to marry her, and as his body turns into that of the Beast, the Beast comes back to life and turns into a prince who looks uncannily like--the dead friend.
		"Beauty and the Beast" was a poetic film made by an artist.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991226/REVIEWS08/912260301/1023 (1264 words)

	erasing clouds film review: beauty and the beast
		In 1946, this French picture was awarded the renowned Prix Louis Delluc by a jury of film critics and professionals.
		Roger Ebert describes Beauty and the Beast as "one of the most magical of all films," and it is difficult for me to disagree with this statement.
		Even considering the minor flaws, Beauty and the Beast deserves its place as a great movie and should continue to charm new generations of film lovers as they explore cinema's past.
	www.erasingclouds.com /wk2406beauty.html (865 words)

	The Movie Chicks - Review - Beauty And The Beast (La Belle et la Bête)
		Beauty (Josette Day) lives a life much like Cinderella, a servant to her evil sisters, Felicie (Mila Parély) and Adelaide (Nan Germon), but refuses to escape by marrying Aventant (Jean Marais), a rich man she doesn't love.
		Beauty's brother, Ludovic (Michael Auclair) keeps offering to hunt down the Beast and kill him, but Beauty agrees to go to the castle.
		To add insult to injury, when the Beast transforms into a handsome prince, he looks just like the wise guy she wanted nothing to do with (and she's not sure he's a better alternative to the Beast).
	www.themoviechicks.com /nov2002/mcrbeautybeast.html (358 words)

	Beauty and the Beast (1946) Movie Review - Beauty and the Beast (1946) Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		The audience for the final cut of Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast" was some technicians in the French studio where Cocteau assembled the picture.
		"Beauty and the Beast" endures as an improbable dreamscape that marries the apex of cinema to a classic fable.
		Beauty is woman unfulfilled; if she can see the prince in the Beast, it's almost because she has to.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=63 (550 words)

	Beauty and the Beast (1946)
		A beautiful young woman takes the place of her father, who is sentenced to die at the hand of the Beast.
		The film is also rich in allegory, commenting as it does on sex, death, and physical charms versus inner beauty.
		Beauty and the Beast is such a visually sublime film that it's painful to see how many problems there are with this restored print.
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	Beauty and the Beast Home
		Consider this, though: Beauty and the Beast is one of the few fairy tales where the main characters actually get to know each other before falling in love.
		Several dream sequences involving a fairy trying to inform Beauty that "all is not what it seems" are present, as well as elaborate descriptions of the time that Beauty spends at the Beast's palace.
		Gone are the dream sequences found in the first version, the elaborate descriptions of Beauty's time at the palace, and the backstory of the Beast's and Beauty's parentage.
	beauty.rivkashome.com (689 words)

	Amazon.com: Beauty and The Beast - Criterion Collection (Restored Edition): DVD: Jean Marais,Philip Glass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Beauty and the Beast is one of the all-time great movie fantasies, and one of the most gorgeous pictures ever made.
		On one level, Beauty and the Beast is a perfect, and largely faithful, realization of a great fairy tale, originally written in 1756 by French author Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont while she served as a governess in Scotland.
		It's not too superficial to say that the Beast is discovering love and that Beauty is discovering a kind of passion which is almost love, not quite pity, and which remains pure because she is honest.
	www.amazon.com /Beauty-Beast-Criterion-Collection-Restored/dp/B00007L4I6 (3514 words)

	BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at Film Forum in New York City
		BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, his third production, based upon an 18th century fairy tale, is an elaborate, surreal parable for adults, filled with Freudian allusions and special effects that reflect Cocteau’s poetic sleight of hand.
		A beautiful young woman, oppressed by her rapacious stepmother and sisters (shades of Cinderella), asks her father for a single rose as a souvenir from his travels.
		Jean Marais plays three roles, but is unforgettable as the frightening, alluring, hirsute beast who falls in love with Beauty, and elicits from her feelings that dwell some place between compassion and passion.
	www.filmforum.org /archivedfilms/beauty.html (438 words)

	Beauty and the Beast: Criterion (1946)
		A young woman (Belle, French for beautiful) must give herself to a beast to spare the life of her father.
		The film is presented on a single-sided, single-layered disc and in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
		While the age of the film is an issue, it still looks very bad.
	www.dvdmg.com /beautyandthebeast.shtml (1102 words)

	MMI Movie Review: Beauty And The Beast (1946) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For many people, Jean Cocteau's 1946 version of "Beauty and the Beast" is the loveliest film ever made and one of the few that we wish we could go back in time to see again for the very first time.
		She agrees to stay with the Beast mainly to save her father's life after he steals a rose from the Beast's garden to bring home to her.
		But the Beast (Jean Marais) is gentle and honest with her and she begins to care about him.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/beautyandthebea-ms-92413844.html (202 words)

	Jim's Reviews - Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast
		And I was spellbound by the Beast, whom Beauty shrewdly sums up by saying, "One half of him is in conflict with the other half." He was brought fully, horribly and tenderly, to life by the combined skills of Cocteau, makeup artist Hagop Arakelian, and actor Jean Marais.
		Take the scene with Beauty's two wicked sisters, who provide much of the film's comic relief, smearing onion on their eyes so that they can pretend to be weeping in despair at Beauty's return to the Beast (all the time plotting their revenge).
		The film's original, magisterial score by Georges Auric is one of cinema's greatest; and Cocteau knew exactly when to use it – or silence – for maximum effect.
	jclarkmedia.com /film/filmreviewbeautyandbeast.html (1500 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Beauty and The Beast (1934) review
		The IMDB lists some ten filmed versions of this classic tale, beginning with a 1934 animated version by Fritz Freleng and ending with the Disney versions, including along the way the television series (starring Linda Hamilton and Ron Pearlman) with its updated twists on the original fairy-tale concept.
		This film was made in France quite soon after the Second World War, under conditions of extreme privation, very neatly negating the platitude that you cant make a silk purse from the proverbial sows ear.
		His lecture on this film and the people who made it is continually fascinating.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video/beauty_beast_1928.htm (926 words)

	Amazon.ca: Beauty And The Beast (1946): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		From the Beasts smoking hands after the kill to the living arm sconces and the couples flight in the end, simple effects seem to gain impact from the bare uncomplicated nature of them thrust out into view like magic tricks.
		There is commentary by cultural historians and film critics, insight from the director, cinematographer and the cast and even more impressive, the opera by Phillip Glass, which he modeled after this same film.
		Cocteau infused the film with surrealism and magic, enhanced by special effects which were new at the time, though tame and old-fashioned by today's standards.
	www.amazon.ca /Beauty-And-The-Beast/dp/B00007L4I6 (1677 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Beauty and the Beast
		Once upon a time, in a world of magic and wonder, the true love of a beautiful girl may finally dispel the torment of a feral but gentle-hearted beast.
		Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) is a landmark feat of cinematic fantasy in which master filmmaker Jean Cocteau conjures spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death that have never been equaled.
		Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=6 (336 words)

	Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The scene we're viewing is from the end of the film, and the plot follows the original tale's pretty closely.
		This is happening concurrently with Belle's return to the castle, where she finds the Beast ailing because of her departure.
		Avenant and the Beast/Prince are played by the same actor (who was known as the "most beautiful man in the world" at the time).
	clover.slavic.pitt.edu /tales/film/cocteau.html (136 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Beauty and the Beast (1946), Jean Cocteau, Josette Day, Jean Marais, dvd review
		Beast tells Belle's father that he must die, but that he has three days in which to return home.
		Even the film's simple (non-digital) camera tricks can still shock, as when Belle attempts to give a beautiful pearl necklace to her sister and it turns into a hunk of rotted vine.
		That's not difficult to do; what's really hard is seeing the adult, erotic tendencies in the film, such as the look on Belle's face when she anticipates the Beast's daily arrival at the dinner table, or the aforementioned look of puzzlement when the Beast becomes a man.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /classic/bellebete.shtml (918 words)

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