Writer Movies

Recorded readings of Swiss writer Robert Walser's late texts and micrographs join with documentary tableaux of his long array of residences, leaving...

A writer finds an ancient evil book and suffers the consequences for it.

Quentin Crisp was a writer, raconteur, social rebel, and "professional being". He was nearly 91 when he died of heart failure in 1999, and his death...

The Tender Skin, a struggling writer-turned-bartender grapples with longing and regret when a chance encounter reignites buried feelings at an art...

Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American writer with Québec roots who became one of the...

An author writes a historical novel about witch persecution and is accused of blasphemy.

The author Stefan König has writer's block. This changes when he witnesses the murder of a prostitute. He doesn't alert the police because he...

In 2002, Sophie Constantinou and Bill Weir interviewed Padgett about his life and works, specifically his friendship and collaborations with the New...

Oli wants to finish her book. Jo wants to get over her breakup. What they don't want is to share a house.

A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only wants to fuck him and thinks nothing of...

Ron Padgett (1942- ) is a poet and editor whose artistic career took off during his teenaged years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, along with Joe Brainard...

Ron Padgett (1942- ) is a poet and editor whose artistic career took off during his teenaged years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, along with Joe Brainard...

This documentary focuses on the journey of Merton, a bohemian who went from communism to Catholicism before finding his calling as a monk cloistered...

A look at the life and thoughts of France Presern, arguably the most prominent Slovenian poet, as well as historical background of his time. How our...

A young woman suffers with writers block and her own sobriety

An elderly man is working tirelessly to revive the Jewish world lost in the Holocaust. His name is Aharon Appelfeld, and he became one of the...