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

[Roger Day]

I think you sell it short too. I don't think it is all biog or
voice-over. I think Jean Cocteau deserves a look at. Poet and
film-maker. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_of_a_Poet - but
my list is there.

Roger

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Robin Hamilton
<robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> V aroused the politicos to have questions in the house, IIRC. It's not
>> so much that I hate these films, but I think the lists that
>> concentrate on biography do not do justice to the connection between
>> these arts.
>>
>> Roger
>
> It was the naughty words wot raised the questions, as I remember, other than
> anything substantive in the film.  Go figure.  Harrison was already past his
> best when he perpetrated it.
>
> V is only biography insofar as it uses Harrison's much-smudged personal
> biography as the material -- otherwise it's basically a voice over (or out
> of) a talking head, as such not terribly innovative.
>
> TW3 did it before, and better.
>
> Un Chien Andalou?
>
> Intersect between a poet and a film-maker happens but rarely, why we come
> back to "Night Mail".
>
> Otherwise, I can see why you want to scream, it's either voice-over (and
> even "Night Mail" skates on the edge of that) or gossip.
>
> K, sera ...
>
> R.
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