The Wonderful Rendez-Vous (1949)

Pull My Daisy is a film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation; Kerouac also provided improvised narration.

En un elitista y estricto colegio privado de Nueva Inglaterra, un grupo de alumnos descubrirá la poesía, el significado de "Carpe Diem" -aprovechar el momento- y la importancia de perseguir los sueños, gracias a un excéntrico profesor que despierta sus mentes por medio de métodos poco convencionales.

Conocido en su barrio por su condición de huraño solitario,... Forrester es un hombre cuyo misterio y excentricidad son casi míticos. Cuando Jamal, un destacado estudiante negro, logra colarse en su apartamento con una cartera repleta de trabajos literarios, de manera inesperada e insólita, se establece entre ellos una relación altamente provechosa.

A series of poems.

A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.

Martin, un trompetista de nu-jazz con un estilo único, lucha contra las convenciones y la mediocridad. No acepta ningún compromiso, ni en la música ni en el amor. Cuando percibe que Kristina, el amor de su vida, sólo le ama por sus talentos musicales, se siente profundamente herido. Decepcionado, se despide de ella y de toda su vida anterior. En los márgenes de la sociedad, conoce a una mujer mayor, Hanna, que le lega todo su dolor en forma de poemas. Martin se queda inmediatamente fascinado. ¿Podrán guiarle de vuelta a sí mismo, a Kristina o a su música?.

Un escritor norteamericano viaja a Francia tras perder su trabajo por un escándalo. Allí conoce a una enigmática mujer viuda... Basada en una novela de Douglas Kennedy. (FILMAFFINITY)

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.

Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of extinction as political trends and modernization obscure its contributions to Indian culture. Merchant 's treatment is wry and good humored , as his characters - an aging Urdu poet (Shashi Kapoor) and a worshipful young college lecturer - clash despite their shared passion for the beauty of words.

Un respetado abogado (Michael Fassbender) del sudoeste de Estados Unidos decide participar por primera vez en una operación de tráfico de drogas en la frontera mexico-norteamericana. Su principal motivo es el de obtener dinero rápido y poder casarse con su querida novia, la dulce Laura (Penélope Cruz). Su conexión con los cárteles son Reiner (Javier Bardem), un ostentoso capo de la droga irremediablemente enamorado de su chica, la sexy y ambiciosa Malkina (Cameron Diaz), y Westray (Brad Pitt), un intermediario amigo suyo.

From July 21 through September 10th, 2007, the Museum for Contemporary Art Tokyo held an exhibition honouring Kazuo Oga, the art director and background artist for many famed works from Japan's Studio Ghibli. Over 600 works from the artist were on display, and numerous fans flocked to the one-of-a-kind exhibition celebrating the lush, gorgeous background artwork typifying many a work from Hayao Miyazaki and other Ghibli filmmakers. International fans of Oga and Studio Ghibli have not been left out, however. A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest allows fans the opportunity to attend the exhibition, as well as watch interviews and testimonials with Oga's contemporaries and collaborators, all subtitled in English.

Shalini Saxena lives a wealthy life-style with her brother Rajesh. She attends college and writes a few poems under the name Seema as part time activity, she meets her fellow collegian an orphan called Arun Kumar who sings for important occasions usually following the words of her poem. Shalini loves Arun wholeheartedly but is unable to express her feelings to him and thus she secretly helps Arun to not only become a popular singer but also rich. And then Arun gets married to the college principal daughter Meena; this breaks Shalini's heart and to make matters worse she is diagnosed with throat cancer and does not have any longer to live.

Oliverio, un poeta bohemio, recorre Buenos Aires con sus amigos, acosado por la muerte, buscando a una mujer capaz de "volar". Los textos de Mario Benedetti, Juan Gelman y Oliverio Girondo, intercalados con gusto, lo hacen un film esencial, interesante, intenso y liberador. En el transcurso de la película, la poesía se ve entremezclada con los lugares más espesos de la cotidianidad artística argentina y uruguaya. Desde el asado, hasta los maltrechos bares Buenos Aires y Montevideo. Entrelazada en ocasiones con la ficción, solamente para poder mostrar de mejor manera el pensar del personaje central.

School-going Chandrabhan lives a poor lifestyle with his widowed mom in a small town in India, and has a childhood sweetheart named Lata, who is the daughter of the wealthy Deputy. Chandrabhan is heartbroken when Lata leaves town, and he has only a time-piece left with him as a token of their friendship. Years later, Chandrabhan has grown up, and has found employment in a guitar and musical instrument repair shop run by the owner and his friend, Prakash. Chandrabhan, a frequent reader of poetry, is fascinated by the poems of Renuka Devi, and longs to meet her. He does get to meet her, only to find out that the woman in reality is her friend, Basanti, who was impersonating her, as she had fallen in love with him, though he has no similar feelings for her. He does get to meet Renuka Devi, and is pleasantly surprised when he finds out that she is none other than Lata herself. Before Chandrabhan could plan anything els

All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

Mija es una anciana que vive con su nieto en una pequeña ciudad coreana. Es una mujer excéntrica y llena de curiosidad, que disfruta cuidando su aspecto y exhibe sombreros con motivos florales y vestidos con vivos colores. El azar la lleva a asistir a cursos de poesía en la casa de la cultura de su barrio y a escribir su primer poema. Busca la belleza dentro de su ambiente habitual, al que no había prestado ninguna atención hasta ese momento. Sin embargo, un suceso inesperado hace que descubra que la vida no es tan hermosa como creía.

Vivian Bearing (Emma Thompson) es una prestigiosa profesora universitaria que imparte un curso de poesía anglosajona. Un día, le diagnostican un cáncer terminal y descubre que le queda poco tiempo de vida. A partir de ese momento, el amor y la compasión adquieren para ella un nuevo y dramático sentido.