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

[jforjames at aol.com]

Somewhat agree about the potrayal of poets (but on the list there are some wonderful 
potrayals)...poetrry itself generally gets treated with high regard...
Good scene in Huston's 'The Dead', for example, with a poem of Lady Gregory's being recited.
Finnegan


-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Day <rog3r.day at gmail.com>
Sent: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:58 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Advice -- Film/Lit course w "Poetry" angle



I think that films about or containing poets suck. Period. They harp
n our need for *biography*. Poets as *characters* - oh so whimsical,
r some cheap *intellectual* fixing on the shingle or worse, the heavy
and of intellectual ballast being tied to a "vulgar entertainment.".
he only film that  I think fared otherwise was Regeneration, although
hat was a complete hack-job of the novels.
Films that *reflect* or use poetry as a source, either obliquely or
therwise, fare far better, IMO How about Powell & Pressburger's A
anterbury Tale for starters? Then there's the filmic career of
hakespeare.
How about flims *by* poets? Cocteau:
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Cocteau. La belle et la bête? Then
here's Auden & Night Train. Murder in the Cathedral by Eliot was
ilmed.
http://www.ubu.com/papers/kelman_ken-film_poetry.html
Simon Armitage:
ttp://www.thescaremongers.com/simonarmitage/film-tv-theatre-radio.html
 Feltham Sings is a good piece.
Epics have had a good time of it: Beowulf, Tristan and Isolda. The
rthurian epics - how about Monty Python's The Holy Grail.  Maybe
ranco-Japanese animation will spark their wits:

ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_31. (a whole list here:
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_Arthurian_legend).
An offering from myself http://www.badstep.net/image/moving/index.html
nd a really bad film with Ezra Pound reading:
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVGboLQyNYI
Roger
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:45 PM, amy king <amyhappens at yahoo.com> wrote:

 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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