Hollywood pushes out a seemingly endless supply of movies based on novels ... In honor of National Poetry Month, here are 11 examples.

The independently produced “Tar” is based on the 1983 book of ... Several different actors play the poet, including Franco. When the movie screened at the Rome Film Festival in 2012, Williams ...

A POET Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Oscar Restrepo’s obsession with poetry has brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet in the shadows.

If you’ve heard of the war poet Brian Turner, you know that his poem “The Hurt Locker” provided the title for Kathryn Bigelow’s Academy Award-winning film (2009). That fact appears all ...

Too bad that the best that can be said about the woeful movie version of the “The Aspern Papers,” based on the Henry ... a dead Romantic poet. This pursuit leads to Juliana Bordereau, an ...

The poet Ibrahim Kadir plays himself in a political drama about his arrest and incarceration in Aceh in the 1960s. Kadir | dG1fQVI0WVZQSXc4QVk 'Into the mouth of Trump hell'? South African ...

Movie"Lydia Lovell, a heartless society butterfly, seeks to know more about Dane Strong, a poet known as "the poet of the peaks" who lives in a cabin in the mountains. Based on John Keats's poem ...

A Chinese animated film, “Chang An,” featuring some of China’s most well-known poets has won praise for drumming up interest in traditional ... our history and classic works,” Xie told domestic media ...

His new movie, “Neruda,” is no exception. It’s a fantasia on a short period in the life of the esteemed Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda — while based on fact, it’s made with ...

As reported by Deadline, James Franco will play Shel Silverstein in a film based on the famed poet's life. For many kids who grew up in the '80s and '90s, Silverstein was their first favorite poet ...

Willie Nepomuceno avoids the pitfall of playing Ferdinand Marcos based on gestures and tone of voice ... may not be forgotten and the lessons of the past will be taken to heart. Guerilla is a Poet is ...