Offscreen Notes
Poe’s 200th Birthday
As part of the world wide celebration of Edgar Allan Poe’s 200th birthday writer director Brent Fidler is planning an innovative event: he will have the world broadcasting premiere of his Poe feature film, Poe: The Last Days of the Raven online, Monday, January 19. Details are available on the film’s official website and in the media release. The film screened at the 2008 Montreal World Film Festival, where technical delays did not dampen the spirit of the director, and a sizeable amount of the audience remained during the long delay to watch Fidler’s unique dramatization of a part of Poe’s life. Fidler, who stars as Poe, blends autobiography and fiction into a reflexive (theatre-within-a-film) account of the final days of Poe.
