Thursday, June 4, 2009

100 Great Movie Moments - pt. 4
(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."




100 Great Movie Moments - pt. 3
(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."