(unranked) (Links are to "Greatest Films" reviews) | |
Description of Moment | Example |
1. Clark Gable in "Gone With the Wind": "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
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2. Buster Keaton standing perfectly still while the wall of a house falls over upon him; he is saved by standing exactly in the location of an open window, in "Steamboat Bill, Jr."
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3. Charlie Chaplin being recognized by the blind girl in "City Lights." | |
4. The computer Hal 9000 reading lips, in "2001: A Space Odyssey." | |
5. The singing of "La Marseillaise" in "Casablanca." | |
6. Snow White kissing Bashful & Dopey on the head in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." | |
7. John Wayne putting the reins in his mouth in "True Grit" and galloping across the mountain meadow, weapons in both hands. | |
8. Jimmy Stewart in "Vertigo," approaching Kim Novak across the room, realizing she embodies all of his obsessions - better than he knows. | |
9. The early film experiment [by Eadweard Muybridge] proving that horses do sometimes have all four hoofs off the ground. | |
10. Gene Kelly singin' in the rain in "Singin' in the Rain." | |
11. Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta discuss what they call Quarter Pounders in France, in "Pulp Fiction." | |
12. The Man in the Moon getting a cannon shell in his eye, in the Georges Melies film "A Voyage to the Moon." | |
13. Pauline (Pearl White) in peril, tied to the railroad tracks, from the 1914 serial, "The Perils of Pauline." | |
14. A boy running joyously to greet his returning father, in "Sounder." | |
15. Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock face in "Safety Last." | |
16. Orson Welles smiling enigmatically in the doorway in "The Third Man." | |
17. An angel looking down sadly over Berlin, in Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire." | |
18. The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination: Over and over again, a moment frozen in time. | |
19. A homesick North African (Moroccan) man named Ali, sadly telling a barmaid Barbara (posing in a doorway) that what he really wants is not sex but couscous, in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul." | |
20. The Road Runner, suspended in air. | |
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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