The moment in Akira Kurosawa's "High and Low" when a millionaire discovers that it was not his son who was kidnapped, but his chauffeur's son - and then the eyes of the two fathers meet. Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg wading in the fountain in "La Dolce Vita." "Smoking." Robert Mitchum's response, holding up his cigarette, when Kirk Douglas offers him a smoke in "Out of the Past." 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!"Īn 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." The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination: Over and over again, a moment frozen in time.Ī homesick North African, sadly telling a hooker that what he really wants is not sex but couscous, in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Fear Eats the Soul: Ali." Orson Welles smiling enigmatically in the doorway in "The Third Man."Īn angel looking down sadly over Berlin, in Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire." Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock face in "Safety Last." ![]() Pauline in peril, tied to the railroad tracks.Ī boy running joyously to greet his returning father, in "Sounder." The Man in the Moon getting a cannon shell in his eye, in the Melies film "A Voyage to the Moon." Jackson and John Travolta discuss what they call Quarter Pounders in France, in "Pulp Fiction." The early film experiment proving that horses do sometimes have all four hoofs off the ground. Jimmy Stewart in "Vertigo," approaching Kim Novak across the room, realizing she embodies all of his obsessions - better than he knows. ![]() John Wayne putting the reins in his mouth in "True Grit" and galloping across the mountain meadow, weapons in both hands. Snow White kissing Dopey Bashful on the head. The singing of "La Marseillaise" in "Casablanca." The computer Hal 9000 reading lips, in "2001: a Space Odyssey." For the centennial of cinema, 100 great moments from the movies:īuster Keaton standing perfectly still while the wall of a house falls over upon him he is saved by being exactly placed for an open window.Ĭharlie Chaplin being recognized by the little blind girl in "City Lights."
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