Total solar eclipse

I saw this as a kid on the big screen in a Manhattan theater, may have been the Criterion, which would tie into the Criterion DVD releases, if they're related. Back then they used to give you a big full-color brochure with your admission, with all kinds of pictures and stories about the movie and its filming. (And tickets only cost about $1.) Although the IMDB section on filming locations doesn't mention this, I seem to remember from that brochure, all these years later, its saying something about how the eclipse was filmed in North Africa, perhaps Tunisia. Seems that a couple of days before the eclipse, they packed up the whole production and moved it across the Mediterranean so they could set up there. Then they waited, and hoped it wouldn't be a cloudy day. They lucked out. The result, which you can see on the screen, and which was so much more profound on the big screen, accompanied by the deep "St. Matthew Passion" by Bach, is one of the greatest scenes I've ever seen in a movie.