Tag: writers

Wednesday, December 20, 2006 – 7:30pm
Great Britain 2000. Director: Julien Temple
Post-screening discussion with Ramon Kubicek.

Pandaemonium is the delirious story of passion, betrayal, madness and addiction that binds two of history’s most acclaimed poets: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. The film opens in 1816, where Wordsworth (John Hannah), about to be named poet laureate, is throwing a lavish party. An unsteady Coleridge (Linus Roache), ravaged by an opium addiction, crashes to the floor

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 – 7:30pm
USA/UK 1990. Director: Jane Campion
Post-screening discussion
with Ramon Kubicek.
Jane Campion’s brilliant adaptation of Janet Frame’s Autobiography

Originally conceived of as a television miniseries, Jane Campion’s brilliant, heart-breaking three-part film adapts celebrated New Zealand author Janet Frame’s
three-volume autobiography. The first section, “To the Is-Land,” tells
of Frame’s poverty-stricken childhood on a New Zealand farm, where she
grows up chronically shy and awkward, acutely aware of being different,
and finds refuge in books and writing. In the second section, “An Angel
at My Table,” she dutifully enrols in teachers’ college, even though
she desperately wants to be a writer.

Wednesday, October 18th – 7:30pm
Canada 1976 . Directors: Donald Brittain, John Kramer
Post-screening discussion with Ramon Kubicek.
Special thanks to the National Film Board of Canada

English writer Malcolm Lowry (1909-57) exorcised his demons through writing and gin, all the while fearing he would be engulfed by his fiction. Opening in
sobering fashion with the inquest into Lowry’s “death by misadventure” (a coroner’s jury cited his death as “the result of combined effects of gin, barbiturates and inhalation of stomach contents”), the film moves back in time to trace one writer’s agonized voyage into oblivion.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 – 7:30pm
USA/UK 1992. Director: Nick Broomfield

“Spalding Gray may be the ultimate WASP neurotic,
analyzing his actions with an intensity that would be unpleasantly
egomaniacal if it weren’t so self-deprecatingly funny. He questions
everything and ends up more exhausted than satisfied” (Michael
Kuchwara, Associated Press).