poetry movies page 18

The Story of Everything (1969)
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A creation story in epic poem format that traces our origins from the big bang to now, using science, poetry, storytelling, visual art, music, 'oli...

A Life Together: Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon (1993)
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Documentary

Performance and conversation with husband-and-wife poets Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon at a New Jersey festival, in their Wilmot (N.H.) hometown and...

Birth of Venus (1969)
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Mystery

Forced into quarantine for 10 days upon arrival in Rome, an exchange student’s journey into processing the past comes to a sudden stop, as he has...

W.S. Merwin: To Plant a Tree (2016)
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Documentary

A documentary on the life and work of Poet Laureate, two-time Pulitzer winner, and environmental activist W.S. Merwin.

Richard Hugo: Kicking the Loose Gravel Home (1976)
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Documentary

Filmed on location in Montana and Washington State, this 1976 biography of poet and teacher Richard Hugo features readings of some of his most famous...

I’m Trying To Speak The Language Of My Eyes (2023)
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The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as...

Ego Sum Petrus (2010)
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Animation

Chubai. Speaking Again (2023)
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Documentary, Drama

A theatrical documentary about Hrytsko Chubai, a genius of Ukrainian poetry, a connoisseur of literature, art and music and the brightest...

Voices & Visions: T.S. Eliot (1969)
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Documentary

T. S. Eliot has been considered by many to be the leading American poet of this century. His contemporaries in the 1920s recognized in “The Waste...

as close as possible / as far as possible (2016)
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With tones of nostalgia and magic, a universe is revealed where personal and imaginary memories seems to become indissociable. VHS glitches distort...

Retratação (1969)
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Documentary

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching for something better. The movie follows the last...

#poetry (2018)
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Documentary

#poetry explores how poets have used Instagram to share their poetry with their readers, the backlash against online creators, how the platform has...

July Dust (1967)
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Drama

“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine. "We made a film on the return of the...

Nice Chinese Girls Don't! (2019)
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Documentary

Kitty Tsui, Chinese American writer, poet, body builder, and lesbian activist, tells of her arrival as an immigrant to San Francisco and, amidst the...

Planet Poetica & the City of Dreams (1969)
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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Comedy

A dream character tries to sell telepathic devices on a dream TV network, only to be confronted with a poetic existential crisis!

Xela Arias. Poeta nas marxes (2021)
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Documentary

Song of the Flies (2021)
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Documentary, Animation

The experimental animated film Song of the Flies (El Canto de las Moscas), translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed...

The Desperado from Kolsva (2004)
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Documentary

About Jösta Hagelbäck (1945-2009), Swedish film director, writer, poet, musician, actor etc. A human bipolar mixture of genius and madman. Invited...

Last Love (2017)
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Drama, Romance, Music, Fantasy, Music

The plot begins with them and ends with humanity. This author wanted to show continuity: the first love and the supposed last is an indivisible whole...

De la rivière à la mer (2019)
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Documentary