Movies: Poetry reading

  • 2018
    The Kindergarten Teacher

    The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)

    The Kindergarten Teacher

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    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 becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and freedom to nurture his talent....

    The Kindergarten Teacher
  • 2020
    My Salinger Year

    My Salinger Year (2020)

    My Salinger Year

    6.32020HD

    A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger....

    My Salinger Year
  • 2001
    Elling

    Elling (2001)

    Elling

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    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. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s....

    Elling
  • 2012
    The Broken Tower

    The Broken Tower (2012)

    The Broken Tower

    5.12012HD

    Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba....

    The Broken Tower
  • 1966
    Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen

    Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen (1966)

    Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen

    7.21966HD

    A 1964 documentary portrait of Cohen in his pre-musician days as a poet and stand-up comedian....

    Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen
  • 2016
    Though You May Not Know

    Though You May Not Know (2016)

    Though You May Not Know

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    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 contact with other artists, both from the literary world and from other disciplines....

    Though You May Not Know
  • 1966
    Wealth of a Nation

    Wealth of a Nation (1966)

    Wealth of a Nation

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    This film explores freedom of speech in the United States of America...

    Wealth of a Nation
  • 2015
    Francisco Massiani

    Francisco Massiani (2015)

    Francisco Massiani

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    This documentary is a chronicle of the journey through the most important sites of the life of venezuelan writer Francisco Massiani who reveals the details of his work and the love of his life....

    Francisco Massiani
  • 1981
    Poets Against the Bomb

    Poets Against the Bomb (1981)

    Poets Against the Bomb

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    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....

    Poets Against the Bomb
  • 2008
    Bukowski: The Last Straw

    Bukowski: The Last Straw (2008)

    Bukowski: The Last Straw

    22008HD

    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, California on March 31, 1980...

    Bukowski: The Last Straw
  • 2024
    A Shepherd

    A Shepherd (2024)

    A Shepherd

    7.52024HD

    Félix, a young, melancholic and secretive shepherd, leads a surprisingly timeless life. He lives alone and works along his father to raise the family herd. From autumn to spring, he looks after his animals, feeds them and keeps them in the dense for...

    A Shepherd
  • 2015
    Wake Up, Leviathan

    Wake Up, Leviathan (2015)

    Wake Up, Leviathan

    62015HD

    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: "Not with a bang but a whimper."...

    Wake Up, Leviathan
  • 2018
    Treno di parole, viaggio nella poesia di Raffaello Baldini

    Treno di parole, viaggio nella poesia di Raffaello Baldini (2018)

    Treno di parole, viaggio nella poesia di Raffaello Baldini

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    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, his beloved Romagna landscapes....

    Treno di parole, viaggio nella poesia di Raffaello Baldini
  • 1969
    De sangue e cristais

    De sangue e cristais (1969)

    De sangue e cristais

    01969HD

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    De sangue e cristais
  • 2016
    Sono Guido e non Guido

    Sono Guido e non Guido (2016)

    Sono Guido e non Guido

    52016HD

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    Sono Guido e non Guido
  • 2015
    Bruno K. Öijer

    Bruno K. Öijer (2015)

    Bruno K. Öijer

    02015HD

    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 Sweden in 2014. His latest collection of poetry "And the night whispered Annabel Lee" is widely and un...

    Bruno K. Öijer