Word: cocteau
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Will little Oedipus escape from his complex? The answer is a real skirt-hanger, suggesting every known perversion, until the happy ending when boy rinds a girl like Mom. The Cocteau-film atmosphere of high camp is sustained by skilled faux-simple prose, which at times evokes Heinrich Mann, at other times less skilled practitioners of psychologically sophisticated pornophilia...
Foujita is still painting. Last week he joined that select group, with Matisse, Jean Cocteau and Le Corbusier, who have created their own chapels. He was baptized only seven years ago (he took the name Leonard in honor of Da Vinci), and with age he decided, "It is time to think about a spiritual legacy." He convinced the director of the Mumm champagne firm to put up $300,000 to build and landscape the chapel above their wine caves near Reims. Foujita did 1,076 sq. ft. of frescoes inside the 47-ft.-long chapel, including a side chapel honoring...
...blatant sexual imagery" (sic) was an additional complicating factor, though for the complaining student who visited the CRIMSON office in high dudgeon, this factor seems to have overridden any concern for the film's artistic merit or academic relevance. Would complaints have been forthcoming. I wonder, if showings of Cocteau's Orpheus or Kurosawa's Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail had been cancelled? The question of censorship, raised by the CRIMSON article, is not pertinent; it was simply decided not to show the film...
...Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles. Ivy Compton-Burnett, Brothers and Sisters. Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent, Youth. Hart Crane, The Bridge...
...hobnobbed with dukes and princesses, sat up all night drinking champagne with Cocteau and Picasso ("I knew him before he was Picasso and I was Rubinstein"). He cultivated a taste for fine wines, rich food, rare books, imported cigars, expressionistic paintings. He was the darling of Europe, hopscotching from the Riviera to Vienna to London, charming friends in eight languages...