dead poet society

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

A poet runs away from his society, can no longer live in it, goes to a distant place and lives alone, suddenly there he sees death.

Toronto International Film Festival 1998

More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of poets and of a poem. These poets are the children of Walt Whitman and of Charles Olson, incantatory and oratorical, radical, sometimes incorporating contemporary political imagery. Black Mountain poets, the Beats, minimalists like John Cage, the wordless Four Horsemen, Tom Waits, and others capture aspects of poets as troubadours.

Spun in the form of an extended beat poem, Requiem for Poets and Dogs tells the tale of an eclectic group of homeless rooftop squatters who spend one last eternal day trying to cope with the misery of their existence through humor, fighting, and distraction before facing their inevitable eviction from their beloved armpit of Tokyo

Documentary about the making of Dead Poets Society (1989) including interviews from various cast members.