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Favourite Poetry films?

in Poetry Discussion

Of course, Dead Poet's Society goes without saying! Here are some of my poetry/writer films I have waiting in my Amazon Wish List:

Wilde

Bright Star

Byron

Total Eclipse

The Hippopotamus

A Quiet Passion

My all time favourite film centred around poetry, or a poet is easily Shakespeare in Love

Any that I've missed?

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Adam Gary

Dec 02, 2021

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I watched a fantastic film called Before Night Falls which is just superb! It is centred around the Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas! And absolute must!

It's an art house film, and has sensitive subjects such as abuse (both physical and emotional), homophobia, and doesn't hold back with it's sexual content... but what an extraordinary tale. I watched this and bought Arenas' life's work!

Another absolute joy of a film I saw recently was Hippopotamus, written by Stephen Fry. It like a Who done it? / investigative comedy about a poet looking into a secret miracle! Very light hearted and filled with Fry's typical humour!

Finally, and most recently, I bought a copy of All is True whilst I was in Stratford back in September! Another wonderful watch, but I am a huge Shakespeare buff so maybe I was just bias. I would say it is worth checking out though!