Favourite Movie Scenes

Box explains the various hexes and how long each one lasts.

 

for Halloween

 

Opening scene from Barbarella!!!!!

 

Still one of the best...

 

Easily in my top 10 films, criminally underrated.

 

I'm a total THE WIRE fanboy. This scene is when the "rip-and-run" stickboy boy Omar Little -- who robs drug dealers who can't exactly complain to the police -- raids a high-stakes poker game that includes an up and coming kingpin, the cold and calculating Marlo Stanfield. Omar has some of the best lines ever written for a character:

 

just conversations, but:

deniro and pacino in 'heat' in the coffee shop

deniro, brando and norton in the bar in 'the score"

clooney and lopez in the restaurant in 'out of touch"

murray and johannson in bed in 'lost in translation'

al pacino and diane keaton staring at each other through the doorway right after he tells her never to ask about his business and right before the soldier calls him 'godfather' in 'the godfather" and then they shut the door.

and

kate hudon dancing all alone to cat stevens' 'the wind' in 'almost famous".

jon voight speaking to the high school boys in 'coming home'

 

In a movie chock full of great scenes, this is one of my favorites..."if the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"

 

From McCabe and Mrs. Miller...

 

Straight Time. Dustin Hoffman and Harry Dean Stanton in the suburbs...."Get me outta here. They're killin' me, I can't make this scene anymore. Get me outta here"

 

A lot of water under this bridge, a lot of other stuff too
It isn't what they say, it's what they aren't saying

 

Ida Lupino singing "One for My Baby" in Roadhouse. Though her voice is not great, it is perfect! She's apparently really playing too, if you watch closely. And it's the first time she actually sang in a movie - other times a singer dubbed over her voice.

 

In LA Confidential where Bud nabs a guy who's been torturing women:

 

Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine!
BEN!!

The Graduate. Still one of my favorite films for decades now.

 

lawrence of arabia omar sharif entrance.

 

The opening scene of Adventures In Babysitting

 

Equally as good as Jimmy Dugan's rant of "No Crying In Baseball" is his comeback to the umpire... great scene... "You misunderstood me"

 

Head - "As We Along"
Yellow Submarine - "It's All Too Much"
The Thing (1982) - blood test
Glory - any battle scene
Two-Lane Blacktop - "it's not my problem."
Vanishing Point - motorcycle girl