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

Thu Aug 7 20:59:58 EDT 2008

And here's a news flash -- Johnny Depp to play Byron in a new movie.

TheOldMole wrote:
> 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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>>
>> Your Suggestions
>> http://amyking.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/poetry-exercises-wanted/
>>
>>
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