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Poets' Favorite Movies

Cecilia Woloch

I guess my only criterion has been listing the movies I'm happy to watch again and again.

1. Wings of Desire — by Wim Wenders
2. In the Time of the Gypsies — by Emir Kusturica
3. Casablanca — by Michael Curtiz
4. Citizen Kane — by Orson Welles
5. The Wizard of Oz — by Victor Fleming
6. Red (part of the Red, White & Blue trilogy) — by Krzyztof Kieslowski
7. To Kill a Mockingbird — by Robert Mulligan
8. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure — by Stephen Herek
9. Crash — by Paul Haggis
10. Moulin Rouge — by Baz Luhrmann

Cecilia Woloch is the author of Sacrifice, Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem and Late. Her chapbook manuscript, Narcissus, was recently chosen winner of the Tupelo Press Snowbound Competition, and will be published in 2007. The founding director of Summer Poetry in Idyllwild and also of the Paris Poetry Workshop, Ms. Woloch is currently a lecturer in the creative writing program at the University of Southern California as well as a member of the core faculty of the low-residency MFA Program in Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University. She lives in Los Angeles and spends part of each year traveling and teaching in Europe.

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