Wonderful topic!
Dana Gioa's
Cruising with the Beach Boys
The penultimate stanza:
Some nights I drove down to the beach to park
And walk along the railings of the pier.
The water down below was cold and dark,
The waves monotonous against the shore.
The darkness and the mist, the midnight sea
The flickering lights reflected from the city-
A perfect setting for a boy like me,
The Cecil B. DeMille of my self-pity.
In "The Petrified Forest" poetic soul Leslie Howard reads Villon to a naive, romantic Bette Davis.
I believe there was a movie based on "The Divine Comedy"(!)
Also, "The Canterbury Tales (very sexed-up, if I'm not mistaken).
Does anyone know who wrote/sang the song that went "The movies are a mother to me"?
In high school my nights were spent watching old movies on TV (which explains my grades)... Anyway movies--old and new-- are a great source of inspiration for me (so is television, I must admit!).
[Check out my poem "The Movie" now appearing on a second-run thread on DE. (I'm offering a prize for anyone who guesses what movie it is.)]
Movie Buff in Massachusetts