That is a great Idea, Jill, it is an important reference for many
and
the Sea, how much I wish to be at the sea, I will write a book of thousands
of pages on the sea, only peaks and peaks all around here zigzagging the sky
:-)
Anny
Hi Anny,
Thanks - I may put it on my web site and keep it up to date, as a few
people I know are quite interested. Already had one request.
Cheers (had a loverly time down by tha sea today),
Jill
On Sunday, October 20, 2002, at 06:56 PM, Anny Ballardini wrote:
> An excellent list Jill, it would be interesting if libraries had a
> special
> movie section with films about poets or made by poets. Keep that list,
> one
> never knows.
> A nice week-end to all, Anny
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Well, a little while ago I compiled a list of movies which had
> something to do with poetry - about poets, poets as peripheral
> characters, based on poems, used lines from poems (eg I Heard the
> Mermaids Singing, Till Human Voices etc). It's long but, as well as the
> ones mentioned so far, I'll list a few, if I may. But there's a lot
> more, movies, say, based on The Raven or about Poe, endless stuff about
> Byron, movies using poems such as Canterbury Tales, docos on slams,
> etc.
>
> Anyone interested, back channel me I can send the full list and will
> gather any other suggestions to add to it.
>
> Cheers,
> Jill
>
>
> The Bad Lord Byron, (Rank 1948)
> Directed by Aubrey Baring. With Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Joan
> Greenwood. Byron standing trial in afterlife ‘courtroom’.
>
> Barfly
> Mickey Rourke as Charles Bukowski, with Faye Dunaway.
>
> The Barretts of Wimpole Street (MGM 1934)
> Also known as Forbidden Alliance. Directed by Irving Thalberg.
> Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. With Norma Shearer, Frederick
> March, Charles Laughton. Remade 1956 by Sam Zimbalist, with Jennifer
> Jones, Bill Travers, John Gielgud, Virginia McKenna.
>
> Basketball Diaries
> Leonard DiCaprio as Jim Carroll.
>
> Beautiful Dreamer
> Rip Torn as Walt Whitman. Plot really deals with a doctor trying to
> reform an asylum in Canada and and hold onto the his wife's love.
>
> Before Night Falls
> Based on life of Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas.
>
> Belle of Amherst
> Julia Harris as Emily Dickinson.
>
> Blood of a Poet (1930)
> Jean Cocteau
>
> Canterbury Tales (1971)
> Directed by Alberto Grimaldi. Written by Pasolini. With Pasolini as
> Chaucer, Hugh Griffith, Laura Betty, Tom Baker, Ninetto Davoli, Franco
> Citti.
>
> Cavafy (1996)
> Director: Yiannis Smaragdis. Biopic of Constantine P. Cavafy, told
> mostly in flashback at the end of the poet's life.
>
> The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
> 73 minutes. Directed by Sergi Parajanov. Armenia. The film is
> structured around the life of poet Sayat Nova who lived in 18th century
> Armenia and can be viewed as an epic of the spiritual history of that
> country.
>
> Dead Poets Society
> Director Peter Weir, cinematographer John Seale; with Robin Williams
>
> A Fine Madness (1966)
> Directed by Irvin Kershner. With Sean Connery as a New York poet having
> a breakdown, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg.
>
> HeartBeat
> Nick Nolte & Spacek as theCassadys; John Heard as Kerouac and Jef
> Goldblum in small role as Ginsberg.
>
> Henry Fool (1998?)
> directed by Hal Hartley.
>
> I Married an Axe Murderer (1994?)
> Mike Myers plays a neo-beat poet/performance artist. (The late poet Dan
> Davidson had a cameo part??)
>
> Lady Caroline Lamb (EMI 1972)
> Directed by Fernando Ghia. Written by Robert Bolt. With Sarah Miles.
> Lord Byron is played by Richard Chamberlain.
>
> The Life of Edgar Allan Poe (1909)
> Directed by D W Griffith
>
> A Man in Love
> Peter Coyote plays an actor who finds a new romance in the Italian
> countryside while on location shooting a movie about the life of Cesare
> Pavese. Also stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Coyote's wife and Greta Scacchi
> as the woman cast as Pavese's last love who has an affair with Peter
> Coyote's character.
>
> MindWalk
> John Heard, as a poet, Liv Ulmann, a scientist w/ a humanist streak and
> Sam Waterson, as a jaded politician. The poet quotes Neruda and
> Rexroth. Film’s best line: The poet stares at the physicist during a
> particularly arcane explanation and murmurs in genuine bafflement: "How
> can you....look in the world in a way that's non-metaphorical?"
>
> Mister Deeds Goes to Town (Columbia 1936)
> Directed by Frank Capra. With Gary Cooper as a small time poet who
> inherits a fortune.
>
> The Monkey’s Mask
> Based on Dorothy Porter’s verse novel.
>
> Mrs Parker & the Vicious Circle (1994)
> Jennifer Jason Leigh in the title role,Alan Rudolph directing.
>
> My Left Foot
> Directed by Alan Parker(??). About Irish author and poet Christy
> Browne. Starred Daniel Day Lewis and Brenda Fricker.
>
> Naked Lunch
> Ed Harris as William Burroughs
>
> Orphée (Filmes do Palais Royal 1949)
> By Cocteau, from his play. With Jean Marais.
>
> Pandemonium
> Screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce, director Julien Temple. Examines
> the relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William
> Wordsworth. Linus Roache is Coleridge and John Hannah is Wordsworth.
> With Emily Woof as Dorothy Wordsworth, Samantha Morton as Coleridge's
> wife, Sara; Emma Fielding as Wordsworth's wife, Mary, Andy Serkis as
> John Thelwell, and Samuel West as Robert Southey.
>
> The Petrified Forest (Warner 1936)
> Directed by Henry Blanke. Leslie Howard plays a poet among a group held
> hostage by Humphrey Bogart. With Bette Davis.
>
> Pull My Daisy (c. 1959/1960)
> Directed by Alfred Leslie and Robert Frank. Starring Allen Ginsberg,
> Jack Kerouac, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky et al. Written/Narrated by
> Kerouac
>
> Reuben, Reuben (1983)
> Directed by Robert Ellis Miller. Based on the Peter Devries novel. Tom
> Conti plays a Dylan
> Thomas/Brendan Behan poet-boozer. Also with Kelly McGillis, Robert
> Blossom.
>
> Shadowlands
> Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis and Debra Winger as Joy Davidman,
> American poet, whom he marries.
>
> Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
> Based on the C J Dennis poem.
>
> Tom and Viv (1994)
> Directed by Brian Gilbert(?). Willem Dafoe & Miranda Richardson.
>
> Total Eclipse
> Directed by Agnieszka Holland from Christopher Hampton play of the same
> title. About the relationship between Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine,
> with Leonardo di Caprio as Rimbaud.
>
> The Trials of Oscar Wilde (Warwick 1960)
> Directed by Harold Huth. Peter Finch as Wilde. Also known as The Man
> with the Green Carnation
>
> Une Saison au Paradis (1996)
> Directed by Richard Dindo. South African poet Breyten Breytenbach's
> journey with his wife through his native land, about which the poet
> published a book, A Season in Paradise (1980).
>
> Wilde
> Stephen Fry as Wilde.
>
> Zerkalo (The Mirror)
> Directed by Tarkovsky.
>
>
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