Beauty and the Beast (#6)

Jean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont’s fairy-tale masterpiece—in which the pure love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral but gentle beast—is a landmark of motion picture fantasy, with unforgettably romantic performances by Jean Marais and Josette Day. The spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death in Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) have become timeless icons of cinematic wonder. SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES   New, high-definition digital transfer from restored film elements, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition Philip Glass’s opera La Belle et la Bête, as an alternate soundtrack, presented in 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition Two commentaries: one by film historian Arthur Knight and one by writer and cultural historian Sir Christopher Frayling Screening at the Majestic, a 1995 documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew Interview with cinematographer Henri Alekan Rare behind-the-scenes p