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100 Great Movie Moments - pt. 2 (unranked) (Links are to "Greatest Films" reviews)
Description of Moment	Example
21. Zero Mostel throwing a cup of cold coffee at the hysterical Gene Wilder in Mel Brooks' "The Producers," and Wilder screaming: "I'm still hysterical! Plus, now I'm wet!"
22. An old man all alone in his home, faced with the death of his wife and the indifference of his children, in Yasujiro Ozu's "Tokyo Story."
23. "Smoking." Robert Mitchum's response, holding up his cigarette, when Kirk Douglas offers him a smoke in "Out of the Past."
24. Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg wading in the fountain in "La Dolce Vita."
25. The moment in Akira Kurosawa's "High and Low" (aka Heaven and Hell, or Tengoku to jigoku) when millionaire Mr. Gondo discovers that it is not his son Jun who has been kidnapped, but his chauffeur Mr. Aiko's son Shinichi - and then the eyes of the two fathers meet.
26. The distant sight of people appearing over the horizon at the end of "Schindler's List."
27. R2D2 and C3PO in "Star Wars."
28. E.T. and friend riding their bicycle across the face of the moon, in "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial."
29. Marlon Brando's screaming "Stella!" in "A Streetcar Named Desire."
30. Hannibal Lecter smiling at Clarice in "The Silence of the Lambs."
31. "Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet!" The first words heard in the first talkie, "The Jazz Singer," said by Al Jolson.
32. Jack Nicholson trying to order a chicken salad sandwich in "Five Easy Pieces."
33. "Nobody's perfect": Joe E. Brown's last line in "Some Like It Hot," explaining why he plans to marry Jack Lemmon even though he is a man.
34. "Rosebud" in "Citizen Kane."
35. The shooting party in Renoir's "Rules of the Game."
36. The haunted eyes of Antoine Doinel, Truffaut's autobiographical hero, in the freeze frame that ends "The 400 Blows."
37. Jean-Paul Belmondo flipping a cigarette into his mouth in Godard's "Breathless."
38. The casting of the great iron bell in Andrei Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev."
39. "What have you done to its eyes?" Dialogue by Mia Farrow in "Rosemary's Baby."
40. Moses parting the Red Sea in "The Ten Commandments."

100 Great Movie Moments - pt. 1 (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."
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."
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."	LOST EPISODE
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.