Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Winstar
• VHS Release Date: March 21, 2000
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• ASIN: 1572527951
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #319,560 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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The long-lasting impact of the brief life and oeuvre of poet Hart Crane is the subject of this 54-minute installment of the Voices & Visions series. Poet (and writer of this episode) Derek Walcott discusses the power and meter of Crane's seminal work, "The Bridge," while writer and contemporary Malcolm Cowley speculates on his troubled personal life, which included homosexuality, orgies, and drinking. Narrated by Jose Ferrer, this documentary uses both photos and film footage to illustrate the industrialization of the U.S. examined and celebrated in both "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen" and his epic ode to the Brooklyn Bridge. Actors dramatize Crane's self-destructive life, including a scene of Crane picking up sailors in a bar. Girlfriend (and, at some point, wife of Cowley) Peggy Cowley describes her last moments with Crane on a ship coming back from Mexico, before he jumped to his death in 1932 at the age of 33. --Kimberly Heinrichs