Tag: poet

Falling Angels

The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late...

Walt Whitman

This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class...

Patience

A 1995 Opera Australia performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic...

El Abuelo

Shot on location in San Antonio, Texas, El Abuelo is...

Das Schreiben und das Schweigen - Die Schriftstellerin Friederike Mayröcker

After her first film about Friederike Mayröcker, filmmaker Carmen Tartarotti...

The Shadow of Heaven

It has been over one hundred years since M. K....

Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told

A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The...

Nobel Son

Soon after his insufferably arrogant father wins the Nobel Prize...

Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

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

Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?

Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist...

Ekelöf's Blick - En Nordisk Diktarresa

Ekelöf's Blick is a film about swedish poet and mystic...

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and...

This Beggar's Description

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's...

Something About Halfdan

A moving portrait of one of the most loved and...

The Love Letter

20th century computer games designer Scott, Civil War buff, buys...

Rumi: Poet of the Heart

In 1244, Jelaluddin Rumi, a Sufi scholar in Konya, Turkey,...

Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur

Return Journey

A dramatic recreation of Dylan Thomas' last tour of America,...

Jorge Luis Borges, the Mirror Man

The lifetime of the great Argentinian man of letters Jorge...

The Tiger and the Snow

Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni...

Le Divorce

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds...

Trudell

A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels,...

Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, Celebrated Writer

Ralph Ellison was an African-American writer and essayist, who's only...

The Young Schiller

The young Friedrich Schiller begins his life as a poet...