Poet Movies

  • 1995
    Patience

    Patience

    Patience

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    A 1995 Opera Australia performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic operetta, recorded at the Sydney Opera House. Bunthorne, a poet worshiped by...

    Patience
  • 2018
    Shelley's Blaze

    Shelley's Blaze

    Shelley's Blaze

    82018HD

    A pictureless film in 3D sound full of political, poetic and incendiary echoes around the death and words of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an infamous young...

    Shelley's Blaze
  • 2007
    Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

    Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

    Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

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    Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

    Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
  • 1968
    Stéphane Mallarmé

    Stéphane Mallarmé

    Stéphane Mallarmé

    6.31968HD

    Stéphane Mallarmé is one of the many educational documentaries that Éric Rohmer did for the television during the 1960’s....

    Stéphane Mallarmé
  • 2009
    Pink Motherland

    Pink Motherland

    Pink Motherland

    02009HD

    A documentary about Néstor Perlongher. His life, his poems, and his activism in Argentina's Frente de Liberación Homosexual (homosexual...

    Pink Motherland
  • 2014
    Write Down, I Am an Arab

    Write Down, I Am an Arab

    Write Down, I Am an Arab

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    "Write Down, I am an Arab" tells the story of Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian national poet and one of the most influential writers of the Arab...

    Write Down, I Am an Arab
  • 2006
    This Beggar's Description

    This Beggar's Description

    This Beggar's Description

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    It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid...

    This Beggar's Description
  • 1999
    Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur

    Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur

    Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur

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    Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
  • 1959
    This Is How Mayakovsky Began

    This Is How Mayakovsky Began

    This Is How Mayakovsky Began

    01959HD

    Based on the autobiographical book "Ya -sam" (I-myself) by Vladimir Mayakovsky the leading Russian Futurist poet of the beginning of the 20th...

    This Is How Mayakovsky Began
  • 2015
    Hunting Party

    Hunting Party

    Hunting Party

    02015HD

    Five friends go out for the best night of their lives and their last together. To hunt for love, cheap drinks and salvation.

    Hunting Party
  • 2015
    Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death

    Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death

    Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death

    02015HD

    Documentary exploring Ted Hughes, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, focusing on how his life story influenced his work and vision.

    Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death
  • 1969
    Father by Force

    Father by Force

    Father by Force

    51969HD

    The story is inspired by the comedy of the most famous Yugoslav playwriter Branislav Nušić. Žarko, a young poet is being chased by...

    Father by Force
  • 2000
    The Books and the Night

    The Books and the Night

    The Books and the Night

    5.52000HD

    A dramatized approach to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) through the recreation of some of his works and the staging of various...

    The Books and the Night
  • 2023
    The Great Metaphor

    The Great Metaphor

    The Great Metaphor

    102023HD

    What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?

    The Great Metaphor
  • 2000
    Tell Me the Truth About Love

    Tell Me the Truth About Love

    Tell Me the Truth About Love

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    A look at the theme of love in the life of the poet WH Auden, who wrote such famous poems as "Stop All the Clocks" (made famous in "Four Weddings and...

    Tell Me the Truth About Love
  • 1976
    Richard Hugo: Kicking the Loose Gravel Home

    Richard Hugo: Kicking the Loose Gravel Home

    Richard Hugo: Kicking the Loose Gravel Home

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    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...

    Richard Hugo: Kicking the Loose Gravel Home
  • 2023
    A Little Love

    A Little Love

    A Little Love

    102023HD

    Through interspersed conversation and prose, this experimental documentary follows a poet and a neuroscientist as they explore the definition of...

    A Little Love
  • 1993
    Waiting for Beckett

    Waiting for Beckett

    Waiting for Beckett

    91993HD

    Biography and in-depth look of Beckett and his work.

    Waiting for Beckett
  • 2008
    Falling Angels

    Falling Angels

    Falling Angels

    5.82008HD

    The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of...

    Falling Angels
  • 1983
    Karel Hynek Mácha

    Karel Hynek Mácha

    Karel Hynek Mácha

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    Karel Hynek Mácha