I would strongly encourage you to take a look at Theda Bara's extant "vamp" film, A FOOL THERE WAS(1914), which depends on a Rudyard Kipling poem, I believe. Many of the intertitles are excerpts from the poem. Jennifer Bean >The would-be accountant in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man is identified with >William Blake, whose poetry is invoked on several occasions. The plot of >Hal Hartley's Henry Fool is driven by the major characters' desire to write >"original" poetry, although as I recall the poetry itself is mostly >revealed through its effects on its readers. > >Richard Wohlfeiler > > > >>Ron Hoffman requests: >> >> >>> A faculty member at our university recently requested any info on films >>> that use poetry in some manner. For example, the use of Frost in Dead >>> Poets' Society; Rodney Dangerfield reciting and interpreting "Do not go >>> gentle into that good night." in "Back to School." First priority would be >>> films that refer to established poetry; second priority to films which use >>> "original" poetry. Thanks in advance. >> > >---- >Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite >http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite