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Presto
“Breaking
Anna Nicole news
as she buries
her son.”
*
“What do you want
to be?”
Skeleton suits
and Superman outfits -
inappropriate touching
on drugstore racks.
*
Presto!
Paris of flies
re-tie
the old knot
mid-air.
*
Blonde wigs and
wizard caps.
“I want to go back!”
Invisible knot.
I want to be that!
hist whist
little ghostthings
tip-toe
twinkle-toe
little twitchy
witches and tingling
goblins
hob-a-nob hob-a-nob
little hoppy happy
toad in tweeds
tweeds
little itchy mousies
with scuttling
eyes rustle and run and
hidehidehide
whisk
whisk look out for the old woman
with the wart on her nose
what she’ll do to yer
nobody knows
for she knows the devil ooch
the devil ouch
the devil
ach the great
green
dancing
devil
devil
devil
devil
wheeEEE
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- Ordet
- The Son
- The Miracle Maker
- The Gospel of St. Matthew
- Diary of a Country Priest
- The Passion of Joan of Arc
- Decalogue
- Babette’s Feast
- A Man Escaped
- Andrei Rublev
- Au Hasard Balthasar
- The Seventh Seal
- Ikiru
- Winter Light
- The Mission
- The Apostle
- Trois Colours
- Jesus of Nazareth
- Jesus of Montreal
- Francesco Giullare di Dio
- Dead Man Walking
- Stalker
- Magnolia
- La Promesse
- Sunrise
Many of these I haven’t seen, but quite a few are on my list. Glad to see a good selection of Kieslowski and Tarkovsky high up. Still working through Bergman’s catalogue, but what I’ve seen has impressed me, though I rank The Virgin Spring over his Wild Strawberries. The Apostle along with Crimes & Misdemeanors and The Big Kahuna are bold choices but there’s still a lot of dross on this list: Dead Man Walking, Millions, Hotel Rwanda don’t strike me as weighty enough (but at least it isn’t Life of David Gale, Pay it Forward and Crash). I am happy to see that Magnolia broke into the top twenty five. Yi Yi ranked at thirty is a good showing, for one of my all time favorites. I would replace Dogville with Manderlay, myself. The most embarrassing choice is It’s A Wonderful Life. Blechk.
Leaving out Gattaca is unforgivable, and even The Truman Show should probably be on here too. Amadeus? Chariots of Fire? The Thin Red Line is far and away the best “spiritually significant” war movie, it’s a shame that it was left off, Days of Heaven too.
I’m not much a Di Piero fan, but his New Endymion is spicy.
But here’s A.V. Christie : Atmosphere to cool you off.
Teresa Svoboda had a nice description from Glass of Water Encounter:
She dances only in her necklace,
scotch-lit surely. He touches his glasses.
Dean Young’s also with a nice line: “in a world made brief with flowers”
From A.E. Stallings’s Blackbird Etude:
here he signs the air
with his invisible staves,
“Trespassers beware”—
Craig Arnold’s Meditation on a Grapefruit, plus there are several more poems from Christian Wiman’s tribute to Craig Arnold.
Hopefully the stupidity will end.
Here is a list of people who are calling for Polanski’s release.
Some of the names have signed a petition calling for the extradition and prosecution of Polanksi are : Jay Leno, Kevin Smith, Chris Rock, and Jon Stewart. Good for those guys.
