For example, five of mine are: 1. La Dolce Vita (Innocence no longer recognized/Marcello can't hear a waving Paola) 2. Night And Fog 3. Saturday Night Fever (A maturing Tony holding hands with Stephanie to "How Deep Is Your Love"). 4. Midnight In Paris 5. Casablanca
-Planet of the Apes (1968) -The Third Man (Anna refuses to look at Martins after Harry Lime’s funeral) -The Thing (1982) -Bang the Drum Slowly -Vertigo
The Maltese Falcon: "It's the stuff that dreams are made of." The Prestige: "Now you're looking for the secret but you won't find it because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled." Barton Fink: "What's in the box?" "I don't know." "Isn't it yours?" "I don't know." "You're very beautiful. Are you in pictures?" "Don't be silly." Black Hawk Down: "Nobody asks to be a hero. It just sometimes turns out that way." Alien: "Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off."
The uncomfortable and heart wrenching reunion of Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood at the end of Splendor In The Grass. Harry Caul playing the sax at the end of The Comversation.
The Wizard Of Oz It's A Wonderful Life Miracle On 34th Street A Christmas Carol Scrooge The Family Man Fate Is The Hunter and many more...
Mine is pretty close to favorite opening scenes: Blade Runner Serenity (2005) Halloween (1978) Apocalypse Now 2001 A Space Odyssey
Billy's school going up in flames at the end of Hope and Glory, courtesy of the Luftwaffe. Never gets old.
Chinatown, always #1. I wonder if Nicholson stayed in character as he walked away Thin Red Line "All things shining... Passenger. No, not the celebrated 7 minute tracking shot, but the actual final scene of the Spanish village street at dusk - life goers on. McCabe and Mrs Miller: I think of McCabe gradual burial in the snow and Constance Miller being buried in her opium dream as the same scene thinking what #5 might be.... lots of contenders. IMO, a scene in which all the narrative and thematic elements coalesce
Hard to top some of the aforementioned: The Third Man Planet of the Apes Chinatown I'll add Whiplash and Altman's The Long Goodbye--the latter a variation on The Third Man.
Interesting interpretation, I never actually analyzed the meaning of it, I need to watch it again, it's such an interesting movie.
These are obvious but it is the ending that makes them so good for me. The Godfather The Godfather part 2 Blade Runner (original theatre version) Animal House The Dark Knight Rises (not classic objectively but I like how it ties up all three films)
One of the best films I watched last year. The movie could have ended any point after the first 45 minutes and wherever it stopped would have been gripping. On it's own, that end scene seems trite and contrived for me but put in context of what I watched before, it's powerful in nailing the film down.
Our Kind of Traitor Frenzy The Birds Farewell My Lovely (Mitchum) Back to the Future edit: Forgot Hackman in The Heist! How could I forget that????
