(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
(unranked) (Links are to "Greatest Films" reviews) | |
| Description of Moment | Example |
| 41. An old man found dead in a child's swing, his mission completed, at the end of Kurosawa's "Ikiru." | |
| 42. The haunted eyes of the actress Maria Falconetti in Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc." | |
| 43. The children watching the train pass by in Ray's "Pather Panchali." | |
| 44. The baby carriage bouncing down the steps in Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin." | |
| 45. "Are you lookin' at me?" Robert De Niro in "Taxi Driver." | |
| 46. "My father made them an offer they couldn't refuse": Al Pacino in "The Godfather." | |
| 47. The mysterious body in the photographs in Antonioni's "Blow-Up." | |
| 48. "One word, Benjamin: plastics." From "The Graduate." | |
| 49. A man dying in the desert in von Stroheim's "Greed." | |
| 50. Eva Marie Saint clinging to Cary Grant's hand on Mount Rushmore in "North by Northwest." | |
| 51. Astaire and Rogers dancing. ["Swing Time", or "Top Hat"] | |
| 52. "There ain't no sanity clause!" Chico to Groucho in "A Night at the Opera." | |
| 53. "They call me Mr. Tibbs." Sidney Poitier in Norman Jewison's "In the Heat of the Night." | |
| 54. The sadness of the separated newly-wed lovers (including the vision of the distraught husband Jean imagining his wife Juliette in her bridal gown reflected in the water), in Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante. | |
| 55. The vast expanse of desert, and then tiny figures appearing, in "Lawrence of Arabia." | |
| 56. Jack Nicholson on the back of the motorcycle, wearing a football helmet, in "Easy Rider." | |
| 57. The geometrical choreography of the Busby Berkeley girls. ["Golddiggers of 1933", "Footlight Parade"] | |
| 58. The peacock spreading its tail feathers in the snow, in Fellini's "Amarcord." | |
| 59. Robert Mitchum in "The Night of the Hunter," with "LOVE" tattooed on the knuckles of one hand, and "HATE" on the other. | |
| 60. Joan Baez singing "Joe Hill" in "Woodstock." | |
