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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. > > > _______________________________________________________ > Jill Jones > http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~jpjones > > Latest book: Screens Jets Heaven. Available now from Salt Publishing > http://www.saltpublishing.com > > _______________________________________________________ Jill Jones http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~jpjones Latest book: Screens Jets Heaven. Available now from Salt Publishing http://www.saltpublishing.com