"Sylvia (2003 film) Sylvia is a 2003 British biographical drama film directed by Christine Jeffs and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, and Michael Gambon. It tells a story based on the real-life romance between prominent poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. The film begins with their meeting at Cambridge in 1956 and ends with Sylvia Plath's suicide in 1963. Frieda Hughes, Sylvia and Ted's daughter, accused the filmmakers of profiting from her mother's death. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1932, Plath developed a precocious talent as a writer, publishing her first poem when she was only eight years"
"Possession (2002 film) Possession is a 2002 British-American romantic mystery drama film written and directed by Neil LaBute and starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart. It is based on the 1990 by British author A. S. Byatt, who won the Booker Prize for it the year it was published. A fictional story of literary scholars American Roland Michell (Aaron Eckhart) and British Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow), who independently find that the socially antagonistic relationship between the Victorian era poets Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam) and Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle) may have concealed a secret connection as lovers. Ash is traditional"
"satisfying on an intellectual level"" but,"" ""Possession's"" true centre is a big, red, beating heart. It's the warmth and spirit that Byatt has breathed into her characters rather than their cerebral pursuits that makes us care"". Concluding, ""There's real magic behind all the brainy trickery and an emotional journey on top of the academic quest. So I loved it."" The novel was adapted as a 2002 feature film by the same name, starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Maud Bailey; Aaron Eckhart as Roland Michell; and Jeremy Northam and Jennifer Ehle as the fictional poets Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte, respectively."
"is treated quite differently in the two versions: ""Silent Worship"" is featured in the 1996 film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel ""Emma"", where it is sung by Gwyneth Paltrow (as Emma) and Ewan McGregor (as Frank Churchill). Although Somervell's 1928 English adaptation of the 1728 Handel aria was done more than a century after Austen's 1815 novel, the original Italian aria was recorded in Jane Austen's own handwritten songbooks. In the film, Somervell's piano introduction to the song is shortened. <poem>Did you not hear My Lady Go down the garden singing? Blackbird and thrush were silent To hear the alleys"
"Poetic Justice (film) Poetic Justice is a 1993 American romantic drama film written and directed by John Singleton and starring Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur with Regina King and Joe Torry. In the film, the main character Justice writes poems which she recites throughout the film. The poems featured were written by Maya Angelou, and Angelou also appears in the film as one of the three elderly sisters whom the characters meet at a roadside family reunion. The Last Poets make an appearance toward the end of the film. ""Poetic Justice"" reached #1 in the box office its opening weekend,"
"to Lou Reed's 2003 album of Poe adaptations and Poe-inspired songs, ""The Raven"". It was also adapted as a song by the Darkwave act, Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows on the album ""Flowers in Formaldehyde"" in 2004. Vol. 5 of the Hellboy comic book mini-series by Mike Mignola titled """" was based on the poem. The British horror film ""Witchfinder General"" was retitled ""The Conqueror Worm"" for U.S. release. Although American International Pictures' prints featured a voice-over with Vincent Price in character as Matthew Hopkins reciting ""The Conqueror Worm"", the film is not actually an adaptation of Poe's"
"poet is reported to have nodded his head thoughtfully and said, ""So, that's Allen Ginsberg."" When Ginsberg passed in 1997, Jerry Aronson decided to update the ending of the film to include the poet's passing, added one shot of Ginsberg's headstone in New Jersey, and added a new recording of Paul Simon singing Ginsberg's ""New Stanzas for Amazing Grace"" for the closing credits. The new DVD, released on July 2007 by New Yorker Video, includes interviews with Bono, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Johnny Depp, Hunter S. Thompson, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, Joan Baez, Michael McClure, Norman Mailer, Amiri Baraka, Ken"
"Prince of Tides"" (1991), ""To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar"" (1995), ""The Myth of Fingerprints"" (1997), ""The X-Files"" (1998), ""Forces of Nature"" (1999), ""The Last Kiss"" (2006), ""Paul"" (2011), ""Hello I Must Be Going"" (2012), ""I'll See You in My Dreams"" (2015), and ""What They Had"" (2018). Danner is the sister of Harry Danner and the widow of Bruce Paltrow. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow. Danner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Katharine (née Kile; 1909–2006) and Harry Earl Danner, a bank executive. She has a brother, opera singer"
"told Plath he wished that she was dead. The letters were sent to Dr. Ruth Barnhouse (then Dr. Ruth Beuscher). Plath's voice is heard in the BBC documentary about her life. Gwyneth Paltrow portrayed Plath in the biopic ""Sylvia"" (2003). Frieda Hughes, now a poet and painter, who was two years old when her mother died, was angered by the making of entertainment featuring her parents' lives. She accused the ""peanut crunching"" public of wanting to be titillated by the family's tragedies. In 2003, Frieda reacted to the situation in the poem ""My Mother"" in ""Tatler"": <poem> Now they want"
"Prometheus (1998 film) Prometheus is a 1998 film-poem created by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison, starring Walter Sparrow in the role of Prometheus. The film-poem examines the political and social issues connected to the fall of the working class in England, amidst the more general phenomenon of the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe, using the myth of Prometheus as a metaphor for the struggles of the working class and the devastation brought on by political conflict and unfettered industrialisation. It was broadcast on Channel 4 and was also shown at the Locarno Film Festival. It was used by"
"Gwyneth Paltrow Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (; born September 27, 1972) is an American actress, businesswoman, socialite, lifestyle guru, singer, and food writer. She has won various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Paltrow has been the face of Estée Lauder's Pleasures perfume since 2005. She is also the face of American fashion brand Coach, owner of a lifestyle company, Goop, and author of several cookbooks. Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of actress Blythe Danner and film producer-director Bruce Paltrow (1943–2002). She has a younger"
"while lying on his own funeral pyre, delivers a speech about the power of fire in a manner reminiscent of Harrison's treatment of the same theme during his 1998 film Prometheus. Prometheus (1998 film) Prometheus is a 1998 film-poem created by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison, starring Walter Sparrow in the role of Prometheus. The film-poem examines the political and social issues connected to the fall of the working class in England, amidst the more general phenomenon of the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe, using the myth of Prometheus as a metaphor for the struggles of the working"
"Barry Johnson called the film poignant. He praised Painter for her ""lyrical, intimate direction"" and DuVall for her ""impressive, nuanced performance"". Christopher Null called the film bizarre and incomprehensible, ""utterly hopeless as cinema"". Wildflowers (film) Wildflowers is a 1999 drama film directed by Melissa Painter. It stars Clea DuVall, Daryl Hannah, Tomas Arana and Eric Roberts. It features former United States Poet Laureate Robert Hass reading some of his own poetry. Filmed in San Francisco and Marin County, California, it was given a limited theatrical release and received a mixed reception from critics. Clea DuVall stars as Cally, a 17-year-old"
"artists, scholars, and public figures to read their favorite poems. Hosted each year by the three-time Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep, the event has featured readings by Liam Neeson, Tony Kushner, Maya Lin, Sam Waterston, Suzan-Lori Parks, Minnie Driver, Dan Rather, Agnes Gund, Frank Rich, Diane von Fürstenberg, Wynton Marsalis, Alan Alda, Wendy Whelan, Mike Wallace, Dianne Wiest, Oliver Sacks, Gloria Vanderbilt, William Wegman, and Christopher Durang, among others. National Poetry Month has also sparked some debate among writers, most notably in 1999 from poet and academic Charles Bernstein. Critics suggest that National Poetry Month trivializes the art form and"
"for a film. His idea was based on the poem anthology publication ""The New American Poetry 1945–1960"" by Donald Allen. The first poet to say that they were interested in being in the film was Allen Ginsberg. Almost 40 poets performed more than 75 poems, and filmmaker Emile de Antonio helped cut down the filmed material to 90 minutes long. The film is interspersed with parts of an interview with Charles Bukowski. Performers include Allen Ginsberg, Kenward Elmslie, and Anne Waldman. A CD-ROM version was released with poems which were never in the film. All 47 hours of footage are"
"out there that cover similar ground, and ""Hearts of War"" is best avoided."" The Poet (film) The Poet is a 2007 Canadian drama film starring Nina Dobrev, Colm Feore, Roy Scheider, Kim Coates and Daryl Hannah. It was written by Jack Crystal and directed by Damian Lee, with an estimated budget of CAD $11 million. It was released in the United States as ""Hearts of War"". In the early days of World War II in Poland, Rachel, a rabbi's daughter, is headed home when she runs into a snow storm and falls unconscious. She is rescued by Oscar Koenig, an"
"The Poet (film) The Poet is a 2007 Canadian drama film starring Nina Dobrev, Colm Feore, Roy Scheider, Kim Coates and Daryl Hannah. It was written by Jack Crystal and directed by Damian Lee, with an estimated budget of CAD $11 million. It was released in the United States as ""Hearts of War"". In the early days of World War II in Poland, Rachel, a rabbi's daughter, is headed home when she runs into a snow storm and falls unconscious. She is rescued by Oscar Koenig, an officer in the German Army working undercover to search out resistance fighters. Over"
"comparison: ""It's like Prince Hal meeting Falstaff"" Writing in 2013, the author Nicola Griffith professed herself smitten: ""In these books every reader who loves fiction both intellectually and viscerally will find something to treasure – and every writer something to envy. They will sweep you away and return you delighted, increased and stunned"". She noted that while many reviewers have compared O'Brian to C S Forester, such comparisons are 'nonsense' - ""This is Jane Austen on a ship of war, with the humanity, joy and pathos of Shakespeare"". The 2003 Peter Weir film """", starring Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany,"
"it in 1988. ""The Conqueror Worm"" takes its name and lyrics from Edgar Allan Poe's eponymous poem. ""The Devil and Mr. Jones"" is a tribute to American actor Doug Jones, famous for portraying Abe Sapien in Guillermo del Toro's ""Hellboy"" films (Del Toro is also mentioned on the song's lyrics). He also portrayed the faun in ""Pan's Labyrinth"". ""Sacrifice"" was written in memory of one of Voltaire's friends, who killed herself when both were teenagers. ""Captains All"" is a tribute to one of Voltaire's idols, British musician Adam Ant, famous for being the frontman of now-deceased post-punk/new wave band Adam"
"John Fowles, Theodor Geisel, Thomas Middleton, Samuel Johnson, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Graves, Evelyn Waugh, Lewis Carroll, Aldous Huxley, Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Graham Greene, V.S.Naipaul, Vera Brittain, Dorothy L. Sayers, A.S. Byatt, Iris Murdoch, Philip Pullman, Joseph Heller, Vikram Seth, the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Donne, A. E. Housman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Wendy Perriam and Philip Larkin, and seven poets laureate: Thomas Warton, Henry James Pye, Robert Southey, Robert Bridges, Cecil Day-Lewis, Sir John Betjeman, and Andrew Motion. Composers Hubert Parry, George Butterworth, John Taverner, William Walton, James"
"and now... A film like this rides on the quality of the acting, and the Brits – Northam and Ehle – invest their forbidden love with centuries of fine repressed English tradition."" Audiences rated it higher than some reviewers. The film grossed $14,815,898 worldwide. The film has been released on DVD with subtitles and captions. Possession (2002 film) Possession is a 2002 British-American romantic mystery drama film written and directed by Neil LaBute and starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart. It is based on the 1990 by British author A. S. Byatt, who won the Booker Prize for it the"
"most important poets of the last 50 years. Of the five, Neruda, Szymborska and Milosz are Nobel Prize winners. While at Berkeley, Hass spent 15 to 20 years translating the poetry of his fellow Berkeley professor and neighbor Czesław Miłosz as part of a team with Robert Pinsky and Miłosz. In 1999, Hass appeared in ""Wildflowers"", the debut film by director Melissa Painter. In the film, Hass plays The Poet, a writer who is dying of an unnamed chronic illness. Excerpts from his poetry are included in the script, primarily read by Hass and by actress Daryl Hannah. Hass's poems"
"The Pallbearer The Pallbearer is a 1996 American romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Matt Reeves and starring David Schwimmer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette, Michael Vartan, Michael Rapaport, and Barbara Hershey. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. Tom Thompson (David Schwimmer) is a 25-year-old man who sleeps in a bunk bed and lives with his mother. Tom is contacted by his high school classmate's mother, Ruth Abernathy (Barbara Hershey), to tell him that his ""best friend,"" Bill Abernathy, committed suicide, and is asked to give an eulogy at the funeral."
"physical world (pavement grey). In the finale episode of the fourth season of the Fox science-fiction drama television series ""Fringe"" entitled ""Brave New World (Part 2)"", Dr. William Bell (Leonard Nimoy) narrates the first stanza of the poem, alluding to his plans of collapsing the two universes into a new world where he plays God. In the film ""Million Dollar Baby, ""directed by Clint Eastwood, Frankie Dunn (portrayed by Eastwood) reads the first two quatrains to Margaret Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) at the hospital after a fight where her neck has broken. In the climactic scene from the film ""Three And"
"and ""Pendle Witches"" (1996), illustrated with etchings by Paula Rego. His poems have also appeared in several anthologies, including ""Penguin Modern Poets 1"" (1995). His first novel was ""The Justification of Johann Gutenberg"" (Chatto & Windus, 2000); ""South of the River"" was published in April 2007. ""And When Did You Last See Your Father?"" was made into a film starring Jim Broadbent as Morrison's father, Juliet Stevenson as his mother, Gina McKee as his wife, Sarah Lancashire as Aunty Beaty, and Colin Firth and Matthew Beard playing Blake Morrison himself as an adult and teenager, respectively. It was directed by"
"Top"" and ""Shallow Hal"" for the latter. In 2002, Paltrow made small appearances in the documentary ""Searching for Debra Winger"" and the action satire comedy ""Austin Powers in Goldmember"", while she starred in the thriller-drama ""Possession"" with Aaron Eckhart as a couple of literary scholars who unearth the amorous secret of two Victorian poets as they find themselves falling under a deepening connection. Critically panned, the film made a lukewarm US$14.8 million worldwide. In the following year, she headlined the romantic comedy ""View from the Top"", where she obtained the part of woman from a small town who sets out"
"the U.S.A. (Viking Press) and Germany (Verlagshaus n°8) In 2012 Starr was published by Bitter Lemon Press under the title NO SALE (Translation Jonathan Lynn); Patrick Conrad Patrick Conrad (born 16 July 1945 in Antwerp) is a Flemish poet, screenwriter and novelist, and one of the founders of The Pink Poets. He also directed about twenty movies for cinema and television, including – selected for the Cannes Festival – ""Mascara"" with Charlotte Rampling and Michael Sarazin. He is also working as a painter and had two retrospective exhibitions of his work: in 1975 (Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp) and"
"it clear that it should be pronounced to rhyme with ""green"". T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection ""A Choice of Kipling's Verse"". The poem inspired a 1939 adventure film of the same name from RKO Pictures starring Sam Jaffe in the title role, along with Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Joan Fontaine. Many elements of the 1939 film were also incorporated into ""Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"". The movie was remade in 1961 as ""Sergeants 3"", starring the Rat Pack. The locale was moved from British-colonial India to the old West."
"The only way to do that was to make my film."" ""Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine"" premiered simultaneously at both the Mill Valley Film Festival and the Washington National Cathedral on October 4, 2013. An anthology of poemteeds by seventy five poets in tribute to Matthew Shepard. The poets include John Ashbery, W. S. Merwin, and Harold Norse: Spoken word poet Andrea Gibson recorded their poem ""Dive"" about Matthew Shepard on their 2004 album ""Swarm."" ""Book of Statues"", a poem about Matthew Shepard by Richie Hofmann, was Academy of American Poets Poem-a Day on October 12, 2016. Actor"
"with a planned publication date of 2018. The poem has been adapted to film twice, on both occasions by writer-director Stephen Weeks: first as ""Gawain and the Green Knight"" in 1973 and again in 1984 as """", featuring Miles O'Keeffe as Gawain and Sean Connery as the Green Knight. Both films have been criticised for deviating from the poem's plot. Also, Bertilak and the Green Knight are never connected. French/Australian director Martin Beilby directed a short (30') film adaptation in 2014. There have been at least two television adaptations, ""Gawain and the Green Knight"" in 1991 and the animated ""Sir"
"Prissy Andrews in Lucy Maud Montgomery's ""Anne of Green Gables"" (1908). Three silent films based on the poem were made. In two of the films, the title was modified to ""Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight"". No sound version has been made; however, the poem is quoted ironically by Jack Warner in the film ""Scrooge"" (1951), and at length by Katharine Hepburn (for comedic effect) in the film ""Desk Set"" (1957). A later Victorian poem, ""Chertsey Curfew"" by Montgomerie Ranking, is on a similar theme. An illustrated version of this poem is contained in ""Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems"
"1988: Pete Dexter — ""Paris Trout"" 1989: John Casey — ""Spartina"" 1990: Charles Johnson — ""Middle Passage"" 1991: Norman Rush — ""Mating"" 1992: Cormac McCarthy — ""All the Pretty Horses"" 1993: E. Annie Proulx — ""The Shipping News"" 1994: William Gaddis — ""A Frolic of His Own"" 1995: Philip Roth — ""Sabbath's Theater"" 1996: Andrea Barrett — ""Ship Fever and Other Stories"" 1997: Charles Frazier — ""Cold Mountain"" 1998: Alice McDermott — ""Charming Billy"" 1999: Ha Jin — ""Waiting"" 2000: Susan Sontag — ""In America"" 2001: Jonathan Franzen — ""The Corrections"" 2002: Julia Glass — ""Three Junes"" 2003: Shirley Hazzard"
"her mother Elizabeth Hawley, and Rochester's nieces Eleanor and Anne Lee (later the poet Anne Wharton). Elizabeth Wilmot died in 1681, a little more than a year after her husband, aged 29 or 30. Her son Charles died soon thereafter. Elizabeth Wilmot's poetry survives in a manuscript that she and her husband produced together. The manuscript, now held by the University of Nottingham, includes songs and a fragment of a pastoral attributed to Elizabeth Wilmot, some of which has been anthologized in ""Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse"". In the 2004 movie ""The Libertine"", Elizabeth was portrayed"