Wholly Communion - Peter Whitehead's cinema-verite filmed at the Poetry
Incarnation at the Albert Hall in 1965 - featured Alex Trocchi, Michael
Horovitz, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Harry Fainlight, Ernst Jandl,
Adrian Mitchell and others....
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Caddel <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 23 February 1999 10:40
Subject: Re: poets in the movies
>On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:20:49 +0000, you wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>I'm trying to put together a list of movies about poets or with poetic
>>themes....
>
>a few more...
>
>The Barretts of Wimpole St
>If I were King (Musical version: Vagabond King) [Ronald Coleman plays
>Villon...]
>Il Postino
>The Agony n The Ecstasy
>Pasolini's Canterbury Tales
>Omar Khayyam (seriously - 1956, with Raymond Massey and Yma Sumac...)
>just about anything by Cocteau...
>does Dr. Zhivago count?
>
>then there was the film of that party that Doug and Pierre were at,
>what was it called...
>
>Alasdair Paterson once outlined a "cinematic theory of the afterlife"
>where (from memory) everything you did or thought in this life was
>being filmed, and after your death you were taken into one of those
>arthouse film theatres and made to watch it all. While you watched it
>another film was being made of you watching it, so that when the first
>film finishes you move directly to...
>
>RC
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