(unranked) (Links are to "Greatest Films" reviews) | |
Description of Moment | Example |
61. Robert De Niro's transformation from sleek boxer to paunchy nightclub owner in "Raging Bull." | |
62. Bette Davis: "Fasten your seat belts; it's gonna be a bumpy night!" in "All About Eve." | |
63. "There's a spider in your bathroom the size of a Buick!" Woody Allen in "Annie Hall." | |
64. The chariot race in "Ben-Hur." | |
65. Barbara Harris singing "It Don't Worry Me" to calm a panicked crowd in Robert Altman's "Nashville." | |
66. The game of Russian roulette in "The Deer Hunter." | |
67. Chase scenes: "The French Connection," "Bullitt," "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Diva." | |
68. The shadow of the bottle hidden in the light fixture, in "The Lost Weekend." | |
69. "I coulda been a contender." Brando in "On the Waterfront." | |
70. George C. Scott's speech about the enemy in "Patton": "We're gonna go through him like crap through a goose." | |
71. Rocky Balboa running up the steps and throwing his hands into the air, with all of Philadelphia at his feet, in "Rocky." | |
72. Debra Winger saying goodbye to her children in "Terms of Endearment." | |
73. The montage of the kissing scenes in "Cinema Paradiso." | |
74. The dinner guests who find they somehow cannot leave, in Bunuel's "The Exterminating Angel." | |
75. A knight plays chess with Death, in Bergman's "The Seventh Seal." | |
76. The savage zeal of the Klansmen in Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation." | |
77. The problem of Hulot forgetting to close the seaside hotel's front door, allowing a tornadic wind to create havoc with a series of small but amusing annoyances, in Jacques Tati's "Mr. Hulot's Holiday." | |
78. "I am big! It's the pictures that got small!" Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard." | |
79. "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore!" Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz." | |
80. An overhead shot beginning with an entrance hall, and ending with a closeup of a key in Ingrid Bergman's hand, in Hitchcock's "Notorious." | |
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
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