[New-Poetry] Advice -- Film/Lit course w "Poetry" angle

Thu Aug 7 20:10:06 EDT 2008

Because I'm not a well person when it comes to poetry, I make lists...

Eternity and A Day

with Bruno Ganz as a Greek poet whose life is in a drainswirl. He meets a young Albanian street urchin

and they go on a journey. About a 1/3 too long for its own good; but some beautiful, evocative and existential scenes.

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Regeneration

Based on Pat Barker's novel of the same name, 'Regeneration' tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of the soldiers meeting there are Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important WW1 poets.

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Il Postino 

Lonely island postman develops friendship with exiled Pablo Neruda, and learns how to live.

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Before Night Falls

This powerful glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas (Javier Bardem) spans several decades in his eventful life. Although vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba, Arenas finds success as a writer but must eventually emigrate to New York City to enjoy unfettered creative freedom. Johnny Depp appears twice: as a transvestite inmate and as a warden. 

Starring: Andrea Di Stefano, Javier Bardem

Director: Julian Schnabel

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Total Eclipse

The self-destructive relationship between 19th-century teenage French poet Arthur Rimbaud (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his older mentor Paul Verlaine (Alan Thewlis).

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Petrified Forest – 

the Leslie Howard character a despondent poet who rises to th
e occasion and faces down the snarling gangster Duke Mantee (Bogie)

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A Man in Love...Peter Coyote, playing an actor, finds a new romance 

in the Italian countryside while on location shooting a movie about the

life of Cesare Pavese.

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A Merry War...Richard E Grant as adman who quits his good job

to become a poet (not a good career choice); Helena Bonham Carter co-stars. 

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Shadowlands

Deborah Winger and Anthony Hopkins star in:

This emotionally moving romantic drama was adapted by William Nicholson from his own acclaimed play, based upon the real-life romance (during the 1950s) between the British writer C.S. Lewis and a divorced American poet named Joy Gresham.

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Tom & Viv
TS Eliot and troubled relationship with first wife (?).

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HeartBeat (with Notle & Spacek as the squablling Cassadys; John Heard plays 

Kerouac; the Ginsberg part was minor, as I recall)

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Belle of Amherst (Julia Harris as ED)

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Stevie (Glenda Jackson as Stevie Smith)

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Beautiful Dreamer (Rip Torn as Walt Whitman, but more about a

doctor trying to reform an asylum in Canada and trying hold onto

the his wife's love.)

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Garcia Lorca (Andy Garcia as Lorca; Lorca portrayed in flashbacks

that try to tell the story of Spain in the time leading up to his death.)

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MindWalk (John Heard, as a poet, Liv Ulmann, a scientist w/ a humanist 

streak and Sam Waterson, as a jaded politician, make=2
0conversation as they 

walk along the sandflats at low tide toward to Mt.-St.-Michel.)

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A Fine Madness (Sean Connery as hard drinking/womanizing poet at odds 

with the social milieu of the literary life he finds himself in.)

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Ruben, Ruben (Tom Conte as a poet who is loosing his teeth)

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Tales of Ordinary Madness (Ben Gazzara as Charles Bukowski, lots of hard

drinking and tough talk)

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Poetic Justice (Janet Jackson & Tupac Shakar star)

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Haunted Summer.

The plot summary from IMBD:  In 1815, authors Lord

Byron, Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley get together for

some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon

deteriorates into mind games, drugs and sex. 

Why would this be considered a deterioration?

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Barfly

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street, charting the courtship of Elizabeth Barrett by Robert Browning. 

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Dead Poets Society. Robin Williams stars

----Original Message-----
From: amy king <amyhappens at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 4:45 pm
Subject: [New-Poetry] Advice -- Film/Lit course w "Poetry" angle

Dear Poets,

I'm teaching a Film/Lit course in the fall and wonder if anyone can recommend a few good films that offer up poetic content, to put it vaguely, or a representation of a poet that doesn't completely romanticize the poet, disintegrating the person in the proces
s.  For instance, I wouldn't use that Sylvia Plath film that came out a few years ago, starring Gweneth Paltrow.  Anything that incorporates the poet's writing would be wonderful ...

Did anyone see "Before Night Falls" who thinks it's worthwhile?

Thanks,

Amy

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