Poetry Movies

Dispositions is a visual poem conveying hope in the darkness

A young poet grapples with his decision to leave society during the end of the world.

A poetic Gem from Edgar A. Guest. This film features Al Shayne singing A Real True Pal by Frank Loesser and Lou Herscher.

The film tells the story of Alejandra Pizarnik: mythic Argentine poet who committed suicide at the age of 36. Her personal diaries, letters, poems,...

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocalist Al Shayne. This film features the original song Back Seat Drivers by Loesser & Herscher.

The plot begins with them and ends with humanity. This author wanted to show continuity: the first love and the supposed last is an indivisible whole...

A girl reads and discusses about 20 poems.

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...

Kitty Tsui, Chinese American writer, poet, body builder, and lesbian activist, tells of her arrival as an immigrant to San Francisco and, amidst the...

A boy and a girl are left homeless while expecting their baby to be born. Together they leave the familiar world and set to the unknown.

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.

Tells the story a woman's life (and death) through poetry and symbolism.

A schizophrenic patient is is wasting away in a mental institution, until a young doctor encourages him to write poetry. The resulting masterpieces...

Martin, a nu-jazz trumpet player with a unique style, is fighting against convention and mediocrity. He will not accept any compromise, neither in...

In this surrealist vignette-based film, a goldfish makes conversation with various objects. A TV becomes a writer, a triangle learns it is not a...

Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The poet was inspired. And America was to be inspired...

Eden, an avid reader, meets Florence, a poet, and over the course of an evening spent together their connection quickly becomes all-consuming....

American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western heroes...

James Franco interviews three experts on the poet Hart Crane, whose life was the subject of his feature The Broken Tower (2011).