W.H. Auden

W.H. Auden

Movies for W.H. Auden...

Stop All the Clocks: W.H. Auden in an Age of Anxiety
Title: Stop All the Clocks: W.H. Auden in an Age of Anxiety
Character: Himself
Released: September 30, 2017
Type: Movie
Thirty years after his BBC film The Auden Landscape, director Adam Low returns to the poet and his work. Following surges of popularity - from featuring in Four Weddings And A Funeral to being the poet New Yorkers turned to after 9/11 - Low reveals how Auden’s poetry helps us to better understand the 21st century and the tumultuous political climate in which we now live.
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The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
Title: The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 2, 2017
Type: Movie
Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years, she captured the “surfaces” of those who visited her studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.
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Chris & Don: A Love Story
Title: Chris & Don: A Love Story
Released: June 13, 2007
Type: Movie
Chris & Don chronicles the lifelong relationship between author Christopher Isherwood and his much younger lover, artist Don Bachardy, and it combines present-day interviews, archival footage shot by the couple from the 1950s, excerpts from Isherwood's diaries, and playful animations to recount their romance.
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Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: TV
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
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Galaxie
Title: Galaxie
Character: Himself
Released: September 3, 1966
Type: Movie
In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H. Auden, Jasper Johns, Susan Sontag, Storm De Hirsch, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg, and George and Mike Kuchar, most observed in their homes or studios. Filmed in vibrant color, Galaxie pulses with life. It is a masterpiece of in-camera composition and editing, and stands as a vibrant response to Andy Warhol's contemporary Screen Tests. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2001.
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Runner
Title: Runner
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Young long-distance runner Bruce Kidd practices and competes.
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Coal Face
Title: Coal Face
Character: Commentator
Released: June 3, 1935
Type: Movie
1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.
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The Glorious Sixth of June
Title: The Glorious Sixth of June
Released: August 4, 1934
Type: Movie
How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent the announcement...