A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors
Antonio Porchia (Voces, 1943; translated)

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

collection of film inspired by poetry

Suggested collection for a weekend film blitz.

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5709

Among the list is the scene suggested from Four Weddings and a Funeral -  Although only one scene contains poetry, the recitation of "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden is one of the film's most memorable moments. A moving elegy to a dead lover, the poem begins "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" and can be found in Auden's Collected Poems.

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