Cinema Poetry 10 - Special Ebert Edition

Cinema Poetry is a video blog devoted to bringing you some of the most poetic scenes and sequences in the history of cinema. On June 11, 2006, Roger Ebert as "Movie Answer Man" offered a list of scenes which to him were examples of poetic moments in film. Though I feel his list is far too limited (the fact that Brakhage gets no mention reveals an almost philistine bias toward mainstream narrative cinema), he still mentions some lovely scenes. For today's post, I offer five of the scenes he mentions: Bonnie's farewell to her mother in "Bonnie and Clyde," the death of the young cowboy on the suspension bridge in "McCabe and Mrs. Miller," the corridor with candelabra held by living arms, in Cocteau's version of "Beauty and the Beast," the night the children capture fireflies and use them to illuminate their cave in "Grave of the Fireflies," and Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) speaks to Grimsrud (Peter Stormare), the killer in "Fargo."

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