Explore the lives and work of literary icons such as Margaret Atwood and Leonard Cohen with this selection of films dedicated to Canadian poets. Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici. Films in This Playlist Include Margaret Atwood: Once in August Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen Higher Than Flames Will Go Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley Mowat Margaret Atwood - A Word after a Word after a Word is Power Still Waters: The Poetry of P.K. Page Listening for Something... Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation F.R. Scott: Rhyme and Reason
Explore the lives and work of literary icons such as Margaret Atwood and Leonard Cohen with this selection of films dedicated to Canadian poets.
Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici.
Films in This Playlist Include
Margaret Atwood: Once in August
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
Higher Than Flames Will Go
Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley Mowat
Margaret Atwood - A Word after a Word after a Word is Power
Still Waters: The Poetry of P.K. Page
Listening for Something... Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation
F.R. Scott: Rhyme and Reason
In Margaret Atwood: Once in August, filmmaker Michael Rubbo attempts to discover what shapes the celebrated writer's fiction and what motivates her characters. As one of Canada's most distinguished poets and novelists, Atwood is also one of this country's most elusive literary figures.
An adaptation of Louise Dupré’s acclaimed book of poetry, Higher Than Flames Will Go is a moving meditation on the vital importance of taking care of our children, a task that remains essential to humanity’s salvation.
Farley Mowat has sold more books than any other Canadian writer – 10 million copies in 22 languages in 50 countries. In this short film, Mowat recalls some of his experiences that have found their way into his work.
This short film encapsulates the life of P.K. Page, a Canadian woman who has reached international stature as both a painter and a poet. Through an exploration of her life and art, the film shows how her powerful works have extended beyond their inherent confines into the realms of anthropology and ecology.
The nation, the country, where do we belong in it? In this film through conversation and poetry two poets meet for the telling and the listening. Adrienne Rich is a distinguished American feminist poet, and author of numerous books of prose, poetry, essays and speeches. Dionne Brand is a Trinidadian-Canadian femininst poet, writer and filmmaker. Incisive and inquisitive, the two women meet to discuss the world as they each see it. Claiming any subject, they talk about events as they see them, analytic, contemplative, honest and open ended. Topics include political issues, feminism, racism and lesbianism, among others. The viewer is invited into the exchange by the familiar images of two women talking intimately around a kitchen table, in corridors, or casually outdoors in the United States, Tobago and Canada. Shot in black and white and in colour, the conversation takes us over the territories of their poetry.
This feature documentary looks at the multi-faceted career of F.R. Scott (1899-1985), a Canadian poet, thinker and constitutional expert whose work and vision of social justice spanned and influenced an entire era. The film looks at Scott's role in the founding of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Party in the 1930s, his years as a teacher of constitutional law, as a modernist poet, and as a champion of civil liberties. Highlights include Scott's courtroom challenges of the Duplessis regime in the 1950s, his controversial support of the War Measures Act during the 1970 October Crisis in Québec, and readings from his poetry.