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22 Jul 2018, 1:22 pm

I've always enjoyed movies about writers and writing, especially bios. Anyone else? Here are a few of mine -

The Whole Wide World - About the father of the American heroic fantasy genre, Robert E. Howard.

Naked Lunch - Fictionalized account of the writing of William Burroughs' book of the same name.

Kill Your Darlings - Based on fact account of the beginning of the Beat literary movement, and the murder behind it all.

Beat - Story of the two murders at the heart of the Beat literary movement (geez, a lot of murders in that circle!).

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22 Jul 2018, 2:40 pm

My Left Foot

Capote

American Splendor

The Royal Tenenbaums

Prick Up Your Ears

The Motorcycle Diaries

Midnight In Paris

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

Misery

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22 Jul 2018, 2:51 pm

I should add Infamous, which covers the same subject as Capote.

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27 Jul 2018, 1:21 pm

The Hours - it’s about Virginia Woolf and her novel Mrs. Dalloway.

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27 Jul 2018, 2:14 pm

Ruby Sparks

Impromptu

Poetic Justice

Shakespeare In Love

Iris

The Before Trilogy

The Door In The Floor

The World According To Garp

Bright Star

The Shining

Sunset Boulevard

Adaptation

Barton Fink

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27 Jul 2018, 2:16 pm

How could I have forgotten Barton Fink?!?!?!

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27 Jul 2018, 2:26 pm

Trumbo

Seven Psychopaths

Good Night & Good Luck

The Soloist

Zodiac

The Sessions

Finding Neverland

Mother

All The President's Men

The Insider

The Post

Spotlight

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27 Jul 2018, 5:53 pm

Naked Lunch

Total Eclipse (Rimbaud)

Will Shakespeare -- a miniseries, not a film, but worth mentioning

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03 Aug 2018, 7:44 pm

Stranger than Fiction.... the only Will Ferrell movie I love.

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03 Aug 2018, 9:23 pm

Seven Psychopaths was great

I re-watch The Words from time to time too, one of my favorite movies but perhaps it's nostalgia

Strangely enough, think I might've found the whole movie on Youtube

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04 Aug 2018, 11:30 am

Hemmingway and Gellhorn

An HBO movie about the relationship between Ernest Hemingway and Journalist Martha Gellhorn (played by Nicole Kidman). A good portrait of both writers, and of their times (crises hotspots like Spain and China on the eve of WWII).

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04 Aug 2018, 5:53 pm

Being Flynn with Paul Dano and Robert DeNiro.

Both father and son (DeNiro and Dano) are writers but the movie is more about their estranged relationship via a homeless shelter than it is about their writing.

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16 Aug 2018, 7:14 pm

where the buffalo roam - bill murray playing hunter thompson! (it's actually rather mediocre, at least I remember it to be)

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marquis ( the one with the animal masks. the marquis de sade, in prison, having conversations with his penis. his penis has a face. it's a pretty good film. unlike Quills)

hannah ahrendt (the film. ... not that good, though)

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16 Aug 2018, 7:20 pm

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18 Aug 2018, 7:31 pm

The genre of metafiction (LINK) films applies:

* Films about writers include such films as American Splendor, and Adaptation.

* Films about films include Player, Blazing Saddles, and The Truman Show.

Metafictional works (including books about authors, and stories within stories) can be experienced as rather intriguing ironies.

(LINK) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m ... orks#Films

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19 Aug 2018, 10:11 pm

Reds

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