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Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen. The Last Straw (2008 film) Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg. Living on the Edge (film) Louder Than a Bomb (film) Luther Metke at 94.
Tongues Untied is a 1989 American experimental documentary film directed by Marlon T. Riggs, and featuring Riggs, Essex Hemphill and Brian Freeman. [1] The film seeks, in its author's words to, "...shatter the nation's brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference." In 2022, the film was selected for preservation in the United ...
Poetry of Witness. Poetry of Witness is a 2015 documentary film directed by Billy Tooma and Anthony Cirilo about the lives of six contemporary poets who have lived through, and survived, extremities such as war, torture, exile, and repression, using poetry to preserve their memories. [1] It debuted October 16, 2015 at the Buffalo International ...
The film-poem (also called the poetic avant-garde film, verse-film or verse-documentary or film poem without the hyphen) [1] is a label first applied to American avant-garde films released after World War II. [2] During this time, the relationship between film and poetry was debated. James Peterson in Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order said, "In ...
Samsara. (2011 film) Samsara is a 2011 American non-narrative documentary film of international imagery directed by Ron Fricke and produced by Mark Magidson, who also collaborated on Baraka (1992), a film of a similar vein, and Chronos (1985). Completed over a period of five years in 25 countries around the world, it was shot in 70 mm format ...
Poetic realism was a film movement in France of the 1930s. More a tendency than a movement, poetic realism is not strongly unified like Soviet montage or French Impressionism but were individuals who created this lyrical style. Its leading filmmakers were Pierre Chenal, Jean Vigo, Julien Duvivier, Marcel Carné, and, perhaps the movement's most ...
Poetry in Motion. (film) Poetry in Motion is a 1982 Canadian documentary film directed by Ron Mann featuring contemporary North American poetry and music. Featured are some of the Black Mountain poets, Beats, minimalist poets, and avant-garde poets. It was released in theaters, later being distributed on VHS, LaserDisc, and DVD. [1]
Epic is a narrative genre characterised by its length, scope, and subject matter. The defining characteristics of the genre are mostly derived from its roots in ancient epics (poems such as Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey ). An epic is not limited to the traditional medium of oral poetry, but has expanded to include modern mediums including film ...