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Re: films with poetry
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Susan Vaill <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:39:08 -0700
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John Singleton's lamented second effort POETIC JUSTICE, featured Janet
Jackson as a young hairdresser/poet. Poetry was supplied by Maya Angelou.

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE certainly featured a few of the bard's sonnets.

SLAM, which won at Sundance last year, is I believe about a young black
ex-con rediscovering himself in the DC poetry slam scene. (It's available
at Blockbuster).

Also, I just saw THE LOVE LETTER, in which the aforementioned letter
reads much like a poem and is repeated over and over again by its
different readers.




Susan Vaill

University of Southern California
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