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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.
Pages in category "Poems adapted into films" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aniara;
An account of the making and performance of 'The Lost Pool' is contained in Robert Hampson's essay, 'Lost and Found: Women's Poetry and the Academy' (Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 3:2, September 2011, 81-90). Sophie Mayer discusses Olsen's film poems in 'Cinema Mon Amour: How British Poetry Fell in Love with Film', her chapter ...
The 2018 film The House That Jack Built features Matt Dillon as protagonist Jack, a serial killer who believes that his murders are a piece of art, similar to the Divine Comedy. Jack encounters Virgil , or Virg, as he calls him, as a hallucination portrayed by Bruno Ganz , (well known from his role as Adolf Hitler in 2004's Downfall ).
This genre of film was first explored in the 1920s by Impressionists Germaine Dulac, Louis Delluc, Man Ray, Hans Richter, and others. In the mid-1960s and early 1970s this genre was further explored by the Beat Generation poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and Herman Berlandt, and developed into a festival held annually at the Fort Mason Center in California.
In the 1909 novel The Phantom of the Opera, as well as subsequent film and stage adaptations, the title character appears disguised as The Red Death at a ball.; In Chapter 4 of the 1940 movie serial Drums of Fu Manchu, "The Pendulum of Doom", the hero Allan Parker is trapped in a "Pit and the Pendulum" peril (Fu Manchu actually states that the Poe story inspired this torture device).
Tom Holland, in his 1995 novel The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron, describes how Lord Byron became a vampire during his first visit to Greece — a fictional transformation that explains much of his subsequent behaviour towards family and friends, and finds support in quotes from Byron poems and the diaries of John Cam Hobhouse.
The 2003 film Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost references the poem by having Faiz being a savior, who will come back to life and bring peace to the world. T-Bird, a character from the 1994 thriller film The Crow reads the line from an actual antique copy of the book, "Abashed the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is."