“Dead Poets Society” (1989) is a beautifully filmed ... Welton students involves literally ripping out of their poetry books an essay by a scholar named J. Evans Pritchard titled ...

Just so. What Dead Poets Society, and the vision of creative writing that emerged in its wake, offered was a simplified, fairground version of the act of reading and writing books. Good reading ...

On rewatching Dead Poets Society, one thing that quickly struck me is how good Weir is at world-building. When we talk about this, we’re usually in the realms of a fantasy film, or a comic book ...