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Adeline Virginia Woolf (/ˈwʊlf/; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London in 1882 to Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson).
Virginia's father, Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), was a notable historian, author, critic and mountaineer. He was the editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, a work that would influence Woolf's later experimental biographies.
Virginia's mother Julia Stephen (1846–1895) was a renowned beauty, born in India to Dr. John and Maria Pattle Jackson. She was also the niece of Julia Margaret Cameron née Pattle, the famous photographer. Julia moved to England with her mother, where she served as a model for Pre-Raphaelite painters such as Edward Burne-Jones.
Actors: Patrick Michael Strange (actor), Patrick Michael Strange (actor), Tom Townsend (actor), Dave Cooperman (actor), Dave Cooperman (actor), Kendra North (actress), Bruce Allen Dawson (actor), Bruce Allen Dawson (actor), Bruce Allen Dawson (actor), Bruce Allen Dawson (actor), Sharon Carpenter-Rose (actress), Sharon Carpenter-Rose (actress), Kevin Tan (actor), Sharon Carpenter-Rose (actress), Sharon Carpenter-Rose (actress),
Plot: Lives and Deaths of the Poets spoofs and parodies incidents taken from the lives of famous writers, artists, and musicians (collectively "Poets") throughout history. Comprising a series of approximately 50 comic vignettes, the movie is the fictional story of what really did not happen to these famed Poets, who have so enriched all of our lives.
Keywords: emperor-nero, independent-film, musician, nudity, parody, poet, sketch-comedy, spoof, writerActors: Naresh Kumar Kc (producer), Naresh Kumar Kc (writer), Naresh Kumar Kc (director), Naresh Kumar Kc (editor), Lydia Muijen (actress), Melvin Markowitz (actor),
Plot: While Virginia Woolf during 20th Century was longing for solitude to write a Novel, almost a hundred years later, James Woolf reads her literature "A Room of One's Own" but hates his solitude and loneliness. "A woman must have money and room of one's own if she is to write a fiction" - Virginia Woolf. For James Woolf, his loneliness and solitude is the subject of his novel until he starts to get disturbed by his own characters. He has to figure out the way to kill his characters before they kill him.
Keywords: solitudeActors: Karra Elejalde (actor), Will Ferrell (actor), Álex de la Iglesia (actor), Guillermo del Toro (actor), Pedro Almodóvar (actor), Jaume Balagueró (actor), Héctor Alterio (actor), Javier Bardem (actor), Javier Bardem (actor), Manuel Alexandre (actor), Jack Black (actor), Álex Angulo (actor), Jordi Dauder (actor), Jordi Dauder (actor), Ralph Fiennes (actor),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Anton Lesser (actor), John Woodvine (actor), Timothy West (actor), Jim Carter (actor), Jack Shepherd (actor), Philip Madoc (actor), John Simm (actor), Tom Hollander (actor), Philip Jackson (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Tim Pigott-Smith (actor), Wolf Kahler (actor), Chris Langham (actor), Harriet Walter (actress), Michael Feast (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Julianne Moore (actress), Ed Harris (actor), Margo Martindale (actress), Toni Collette (actress), Meryl Streep (actress), Claire Danes (actress), Allison Janney (actress), Nicole Kidman (actress), Jeff Daniels (actor), John C. Reilly (actor), Stephen Dillane (actor), Miranda Richardson (actress), Eileen Atkins (actress), Philip Glass (composer), Scott Rudin (producer),
Plot: In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneously linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf, who's writing the novel mentioned before.
Keywords: 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, angst, animal-burial, artificial-insemination, babysitter, barbiturates, based-on-book, based-on-novelActors: Anna Massey (actress), Nils Pagh Andersen (editor), Ian Redford (actor), John Fuegi (producer), John Fuegi (director), Morten Bruus (producer), Morten Bruus (director), Juliet Nicolson (actress),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Paul Colichman (producer), Richard Morrison (miscellaneous crew), Nickolas Grace (actor), Michael Mendelsohn (miscellaneous crew), Debbie Wiseman (composer), Miranda Richardson (actress), Anna Chancellor (actress), Rosemary Harris (actress), Willem Dafoe (actor), John Savident (actor), Geoffrey Bayldon (actor), Miles A. Copeland III (producer), James Greene (actor), Tony Lawson (editor), Philip Locke (actor),
Plot: In 1915, T.S. (Tom) Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their planned honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry doesn't bring in enough to live on, but her mother is happy Viv has found a tender and discreet husband.
Keywords: 1910s, 1930s, based-on-literary, based-on-play, character-name-in-title, confrontation, courtship, craziness, docudrama, dysfunctional-marriageActors: Eileen Atkins (actress), Patrick Garland (director), Virginia Woolf (writer),
Genres: ,I let the light sink inside my skin just so I can breathe again
Balancing the weight between creepy and obsessive
The world of the weight's on my back, backwards, wait
Words back me in a way, I need to be accepted
Everything is relative, the world is full of skeletons
Dancing to the rhythm to pretend that they're alive
But I don't got a bone to pick especially when they're broke and hit
The funny one, it's cumbersome to wonder why they try
A fifth in my right hand, quarters in my left
Until my half-life is a hole inside my chest
If I sit and listen with this individual diction
Is it indiscriminant or just a symptom of the sickness?
Or a metaphor of change?
To break a dollar, people write their letters for a chain
I'd rather write a chain letter, it's better for the pain
And the people in my life that always said I was insane
I'll throw a noose around the sun and be the pendulum
Tick-tock, tick-tock, I'll wait until the medics come
I'll be so high and so bright that if you want me back
You'll have to sit and watch the setting sun
Bring my body to the ground
Before they catch a breath they'll be calling it profound
Martyrdom for beauty's sake, decorates the landscape
As everybody's hands shake from quality they found
This is what it's like to taste the Heavens and dismiss the grace
Another year, another fake expression in a picture frame
Another birthday wish and still it didn't change
A lap around the sun never took me to a different place
But I have to keep floating
Until I meet Virginia Woolf trapped in sheep's clothing
I could be the stones in her pockets when we walk in
To the ocean and marvel at the coast until we sink
And as her lungs filled with water
She watched the sun spill across her
Until the mud filled her armor
Sea shells spelled “Our love still will conquer”
Nope, bubbles rose to the surface
Anchored down where the stones and the dirt live
Taste the ground that she chose to submerge in
“Oh, Vir-gin-ia Woolf, don't be ner-vous”
(No) With all the medicine, your head you said has driven you to go
And follow sadness, left for dead instead I'm diggin' up your bones
They're all intact and set up when I get to give ‘em all a home
An artifact that's Heaven-sent, I get to visit on my own
I'm alone now on the go-round
That broke down slow when I pulled my soul out
For sold-out shows full of ghosts of old doubts
And profound hopes that I don't control now
I know, somebody come and set me free
From the sea of an undetected grief
Some things that you love aren't meant to be
Bleeding hearts run out of blood eventually
So we can call her my atonement
A message in a bottle that I wanted you to open
It's a poem, a sorrowful devotion
That I left for you at the bottom of the ocean