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Re: Movies based (some very loosely) on the lives of writers, poets, and playwrights: What have you seen? 
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honeysuckle
honeysuckle
Posts 39
4/29/2007 8:49 AM
posted awhile ago

Movies based (some very loosely) on the lives of writers, poets, and playwrights: What have you seen?



Shadowlands (C.S. Lewis)

Heart Beat (Jack Kerouac et al)

Sylvia (Plath)

Shakespeare in Love

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Dorothy Parker)

Haunted Summer (Lord Byron, Percy Bysse Shelley, Mary W. Shelley)

Capote

Agatha (Christie)

 



     
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Agatha  (1979)

Haunted Summer  (1988)

HeartBeat  (1988)

Shadowlands  (1993)

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle  (1994)

Shakespeare in Love  (1998)

Sylvia  (2003)

Capote  (2005)
            
divinemsjunebug
divinemsjunebug
Posts 552
4/29/2007 4:04 PM
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Re: Movies based (some very loosely) on the lives of writers, poets, and playwrights: What have you seen?



Have you ever seen the movie Impromptu?  It's about Chopin and his relationship with George Sond (I don't think I spelled her name right).  She was a poet and a writer and changed her name to George so people would think she was a man (since women were not accepted as writers back then).  Anyway, it's a very good art film and I think it's probably one of Hugh Grant's first movies.  Julian Sands is also in it (sigh, I love watching him) and Bernadette Peters (she is very good being a little evil in this movie). 

     
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Impromptu  (1990)
            
Risselada
Risselada
Posts 1368
4/30/2007 1:21 AM
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Re: Movies based (some very loosely) on the lives of writers, poets, and playwrights: What have you seen?



The only one I've seen of those is Shakespeare in Love.  Do any of these apply?

Where the Buffalo Roam (Hunter S. Thompson)

Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)

Finding Neverland (J. M. Barrie)

Crumb (R. Crumb)

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Yukio Mishima)

 

Isn't there a movie about Lewis Carroll??  I seem to remember reading about this.



     
Under discussion:

Naked Lunch  (1991)

Where the Buffalo Roam  (1980)

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters  (1985)

Crumb  (1994)

Shakespeare in Love  (1998)

Finding Neverland  (2004)
            
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