Solar Eclipse Today, in the Movies and of the Heart

Gina Telaroli August 1, 2008 | 8:43 am EST

Today there will be a solar eclipse! Well if you live in in parts of Canada, northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China there will be. The rest of us will just have to make due with listening to Bonnie Tyler’s “total eclipse of the heart…”

Or you can watch the clip below, which I featured on the Top 10 Space Movies list, but is absolutely perfect for today. It is from the Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies and is one of my all time favorite movie scenes. So I recommend as the sky darkens across the Northern Hemisphere of our world, watch the clip below and remember that there is:

“no need to fear. It’s not over. For across the sun’s glowing sphere, slowly, the Moon swims away. And the sun once again bursts forth, and to the Earth slowly there comes again light, and warmth again floods the Earth. Deep emotion pierces everyone. They have escaped the weight of darkness…”