Poetry Reading Movies
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My Salinger Year
My Salinger YearMOVIE
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
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Elling
EllingMOVIE
40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. The...
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The Kindergarten Teacher
The Kindergarten TeacherMOVIE
Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she beco...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen
Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard CohenMOVIE
A 1964 documentary portrait of Cohen in his pre-musician days as a poet and stand-up comedian.
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Though You May Not Know
Though You May Not KnowMOVIE
An account of the life and work of the Spanish poet Luis García Montero; a journey through his experiences, his mentors, his influences and his contac...
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Wealth of a Nation
Wealth of a NationMOVIE
This film explores freedom of speech in the United States of America
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The Broken Tower
The Broken TowerMOVIE
Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
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Bukowski: The Last Straw
Bukowski: The Last StrawMOVIE
The Last Straw is a film documenting the very last live poetry reading given by Charles Bukowski at The Sweetwater, a music club in Redondo Beach, Cal...
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Francisco Massiani
Francisco MassianiMOVIE
This documentary is a chronicle of the journey through the most important sites of the life of venezuelan writer Francisco Massiani who reveals the de...
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Wake Up, Leviathan
Wake Up, LeviathanMOVIE
T. S. Eliot ends one of his most famous poems, "The Hollow Men", by repeating three times the sentence "This is how the world ends" - and then adding:...
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De sangue e cristais
De sangue e cristaisMOVIE
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Poets Against the Bomb
Poets Against the BombMOVIE
An event organised by CND pits the bomb against poetry. Hear artists who hoped that words and rhymes could put an end to destructive times.
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Bruno K. Öijer
Bruno K. ÖijerMOVIE
Since 1973 Bruno K. Öijer has been on stage performing his own unique pictorial outsider poetry. We meet him during the celebrated sold out tour of Sw...
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Treno di parole, viaggio nella poesia di Raffaello Baldini
Treno di parole, viaggio nella poesia di Raffaello BaldiniMOVIE
The œuvre of poet Raffaello Baldini (1924-2005) through the words of those who knew him, the poems he himself read, the fragments of his monologues, h...
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Sono Guido e non Guido
Sono Guido e non GuidoMOVIE