Poets' Favorite Movies
Peter Everwine
Here are 10 movies, in no particular order. I could
easily have chosen 10 other movies, I suppose, but these 10 ring like
true classics for me and never fail to move me again when I see them or
even hold them in memory. And their importance to me varies. But, here
they are:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Night of the Hunter
On the Waterfront
The Third Man
Dark Eyes (Oci Ciornie)
Wild Strawberries
Time of the Gypsies
The General
Shane
The Grapes of Wrath
Peter
Everwine's most recent collection of poems is From the Meadow:
Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh). Previous
collections include Collecting the Animals (Atheneum), which was
a Lamont Selection and a nominee for the National Book Award, and
Keeping the Night (Atheneum). He has received fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation. He retired from California State University, Fresno, in
1992.
"That all
sounds very formal and academic. Nowhere does it say that I spent early
Saturday afternoons rooting for Johnny Weismuller, Tom Mix, Buster
Crabbe, and Johnny Mac Brown, my first poets. Leechburg, my very small
town, had two movie houses. Now they have none. Some progress."Top |
