How To Use Cocteau In A Sentence
- Cocteau's jazz club was the spot where artists gossiped and drank.
- All that is required is patience, as these beautiful, shimmering homages to the Cocteau Twins and Bola unfold at their own pace, in their own time, revealing secrets upon repeated listening.
- Yet Cocteau made ‘the noblest and most exalted claims’ for poets, and the poet's immortality is very special and real.
- Somehow, the Gance film is most startling in this department, as the women's bared breasts and the men's bared bottoms -- not to mention the devastatingly unleashed female libido portrayed -- are couched in an opulent production that marries the rustic fantasia of Cocteau's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST to a velvety color cinematography that recalls THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD or, better yet, one of the early Disney animated features. Archive 2006-08-20
- His work connects us to Cocteau, François Mauriac and other French novelists.
- His 13-year personal relationship with the vocalist of The Cocteaus, was on the rocks and his former drug and alcohol abuse was not making a naturally chippy personality any happier.
- Not too long ago I played some of this for a friend, who was interested when he saw that Liz Fraser of the Cocteau Twins guested on one or two tracks.
- Far from unquestioningly loyal, he once remarked to Cocteau of the communists: "I have joined a family, and like all families, it's full of shit, " Richardson reports.
- Richter later spent some time in America, where, among other things, he collaborated with Jean Cocteau on the late surrealist romp 8x8: A Chess Sonata (portions of which are also online — check out this sequence featuring Paul Bowles awakening to compose from a slowly draining swimming pool.) posted by Matthew @ 10: 00 AM Hats Off
- But its dreamscape reminds me as much of Cocteau's ancient figures marooned in modernity, speaking like ghosts or halfrealized human beings.