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Summary: It is one of the last days of an exceptionally hot summer in 1956. Bertolt Brecht (Bierbichler) is about to leave his lakeside house among the tall birches in Brandenburg to return to Berlin for the upcoming theater season. Most o...
Release Date: September 14, 2000
Runtime: 1 h 37 min

Countries: Germany, Poland
Language: German
Domestic: $ 10,952
Summary: Around 1940, The New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character, who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of twenty thousand conversations he's overheard.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 468,684
International: $ 25,466
Summary: The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.
Runtime: 2 h 13 min
MPAA: R

Countries: Mexico, United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 4,242,892
International: $ 4,358,161
Summary: A sorority girl finds her life falling apart after she develops romantic feelings for a mentally-disabled man.
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 308,552
Summary: Documentary on Charles Bukowski, author of 'Notes of a Dirty Old Man', 'Love Is a Dog from Hell', and the autobiographical novels, 'Women', 'Hollywood', and 'Post Office'.
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Runtime: 2 h 10 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 318,816
International: $ 10,281
Summary: As Macedonia faces its difficult transition, a boy escapes into a world of his own creation.
Runtime: 1 h 47 min

Domestic: $ 2,241
International: $ 911,551
Summary: "Jackie Curtis is not a drag queen. Jackie is an artist. A pioneer without a frontier." -- Andy Warhol. Superstar in a Housedress examines the life and legend of Warhol transvestite superstar Jackie Curtis who was a poet, playwrig...
Runtime: 1 h 35 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 28,032
Summary: A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.
Runtime: 1 h 19 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 26,756
Summary: A coming of age story about a shy teenage boy trying to escape from the influence of his domineering mother. His world changes when he begins to work for a retired actress.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Domestic: $ 239,962
International: $ 1,057,591
Summary: Archival footage, animation, and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 177,490
Summary: Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Summary: The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement wit...
Runtime: 1 h 13 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 4,816
Summary: A look at the late '60s and early '70s rock band The Doors, including rare exclusive footage.
Runtime: 1 h 26 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 246,078
International: $ 948,104
Summary: Chris Rock explores the wonders of African-American hairstyles.
Runtime: 1 h 36 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 4,157,223
International: $ 5,912
Summary: A profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer.
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Runtime: 1 h 24 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Distributor: Zeitgeist Films
Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,510,026
International: $ 497,952
Summary: A recounting of Jack Kerouac's three sojourns to the cabin in Big Sur owned by his friend, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Runtime: 1 h 21 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 37,466
Summary: A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,030,064
International: $ 847,860
Summary: Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his skeptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to terms with this re...
Runtime: 1 h 36 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: German
Domestic: $ 13,702
International: $ 47,991
Summary: The 18th century literary genius Friedrich Schiller falls in love with the sisters Charlotte and Caroline von Lengefeld. After a passionate summer together in a menage a trois, jealousy and rivalry endanger their union.
Runtime: 2 h 18 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: German
Domestic: $ 54,030
International: $ 2,358,115
Summary: The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 3,002,884
International: $ 70,107