Oct 6, 2009 | MediaGuardian.co.uk
The poetry at the heart of cinema | Adam O'Riordan
The past decade has seen biopics of Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas and now John Keats, but film's reliance on poetry goes beyond simply retelling poets' life stories Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig as Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes in the 2003 film Sylvia.
Champagne is for white men. A year after his much celebrated La grand bouffe , director Marco Ferreri reassembled the brilliant cast of Marcello Mastroianni , Michel Piccoli , Philippe Noiret , and Ugo Tognazzi .
Rialto Theatre - Spice up your summer evening with a film whose plot thrives on one part sheer romance, constructed from the love poems of Chile's Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, and one part simplicity, as an unlikely friendship between an esteemed poet and his lovelorn letter carrier takes wing.
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