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

[TheOldMole]

Lady Caroline Lamb, with Sarah Miles as Lady C and Richard Chamberlain 
as Lord Byron

jforjames at aol.com wrote:
> 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.
>  
> -
> 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.
> --
> Il Postino
> Lonely island postman develops friendship with exiled Pablo Neruda, 
> and learns how to live.
>  
>  
> --
> 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
>  
> --
> Total Eclipse
> The self-destructive relationship between 19th-century teenage French 
> poet Arthur Rimbaud (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his older mentor Paul 
> Verlaine (Alan Thewlis).
> --
> Petrified Forest –
> the Leslie Howard character a despondent poet who rises to the 
> occasion and faces down the snarling gangster Duke Mantee (Bogie)
>  
> --
> 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.
>  
> --
> 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.
>  
> --
> 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.
> --
> Tom & Viv
> TS Eliot and troubled relationship with first wife (?).
>  
> ---
> HeartBeat (with Notle & Spacek as the squablling Cassadys; John Heard 
> plays
> Kerouac; the Ginsberg part was minor, as I recall)
> --
> Belle of Amherst (Julia Harris as ED)
>  
> --
> Stevie (Glenda Jackson as Stevie Smith)
>
> --
> 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.)
>  
> --
> 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.)
>  
> --
> MindWalk (John Heard, as a poet, Liv Ulmann, a scientist w/ a humanist
> streak and Sam Waterson, as a jaded politician, make conversation as they
> walk along the sandflats at low tide toward to Mt.-St.-Michel.)
>  
> --
> 0A
> A Fine Madness (Sean Connery as hard drinking/womanizing poet at odds
> with the social milieu of the literary life he finds himself in.)
>  
> --
> Ruben, Ruben (Tom Conte as a poet who is loosing his teeth)
>  
> --
> Tales of Ordinary Madness (Ben Gazzara as Charles Bukowski, lots of hard
> drinking and tough talk)
>  
> --
> Poetic Justice (Janet Jackson & Tupac Shakar star)
>  
> ---
> 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?
>  
> --
> Barfly
> --
> The Barretts of Wimpole Street, charting the courtship of Elizabeth 
> Barrett by Robert Browning.
> --
> Dead Poets Society. Robin Williams stars
>  
>  
>  
>  
>
> ----Original Message-----
> From: amy king <amyhappens at yahoo.com>
> To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views 
> <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> Sent: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 4:45 pm
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Advice=2 0-- 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 process.  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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