Just before I left on vacation I received a press release for two upcoming series at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. I’m finally now getting to it.
As the name implies, Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy screens only three films, Le Sang d’un poète (Blood of a 
Poet), Orphée (Orpheus), and Le Testament d’Orphée (The Testament of Orpheus). Since the pictures were made over a 30-year period, one can’t really call them an intentional trilogy, but Cocteau certainly kept returning to this one mythological theme. I haven’t seen any of these films since college, so I’ll reframe from giving an opinion. Each film gets multiple screenings throughout July.
In conjunction with an exhibit of Frida Kahlo’s work, Angel of Fire: Kahlo, Mexico, and Film screens seven films from July 30 through the end of August. Judging from the provided descriptions (I’ve never seen any of
these films and only heard of two of them), Kahlo herself isn’t a frequent subject. Only one of the films, Frida, naturaleza viva, deals with her at all. The others connect with her only in that they come out of the same early-to-mid 20th century Mexican surrealist cultural stew. But it is a chance to see Buñuel’s Nazarín and the reconstructed version of Eisenstein’s ¡Que viva Mexico! on the big screen.
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