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Poets' Favorite Movies

Judith Taylor

Boudu Saved from Drowning - Jean Renoir, 1932
Top Hat - Mark Sandrich, 1935
La Belle et la bête - Jean Cocteau, 1946
Kind Hearts and Coronets - Robert Hamer, 1949
Ugestsu - Kenzi Mizoguchi, 1953
Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard, 1960
Yojimbo - Akira Kurasawa, 1961
2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick, 1968
Aguirre, The Wrath of God - Werner Herzog, 1972
Sleeper - Woody Allen, 1973
Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick, 1975

Here are a few recent films that might stand my test of time:

Sex, Lies and Videotape - Steven Soderbergh, 1989
Lost in Translation - Sophia Coppola, 2003
The Best of Youth - Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003

Judith Taylor is the author of two books of poems; Selected Dreams from the Animal Kingdom (Zoo Press, 2003) and Curios (Sarabande Books, 2000) and a chapbook, Burning, (1999). She also co-edited Air Fare: Stories, Poems and Essays On Flight (Sarabande Books, 2004). Her work has been widely published and anthologized. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, she lives in Los Angeles, and is co-editor of POOL.

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