This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 8 wins & 4 nominations total
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- TriviaThe film was given a very limited release in the USA in late 1978, but only on the West Coast. Over two years later, it was shown theatrically on the East Coast and proved a big hit with critics, going on to win many awards, including 2 acting awards from the New York Film Critics.
- Quotes
Stevie Smith: Agatha Christie is so deadly serious in English... but in French, she's so delightfully funny! Je m'apelle Hercule Poirot, un detective. Her murders are so polite!
Featured review
Stevie Smith: "discomfiting and even improbable"
For a thoughtful, literate, positive essay on the film, see Ed Hirsch in American Poetry Review (Jul/Aug 2000): 32-37: ""It's deeply fitting that the last words of the film are the words of Stevie's final poem ["Come Death (a)," read by Trevor Howard]. They fill the mind, the theater, with their faithful summons, their fatal timely music.""
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- Sep 6, 2001
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- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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