Your all time favorite film scenes

Bette feeding Joan the rat.

This scene from the Birds.

Anything from the Exorcist.

Where's the cat?

I know, I know, they changed the ending to schmaltz. It still gets to me how she regrets forcing the cat to leave.

Too much potential for spoilers in this thread.

I know that Mel Gibson is hated around here but Braveheart is one of my favorite movies. The ending with Robert The Bruce, leading his men to battle. Angus MacFayden should have gotten an award for his performance.

When the sad girl gets to go shopping.

We've done this too many times.

The throwing-up scene.

The scene where Erica tries to walk her painting home.

I've seen Roma years ago and I don't remember that scene at all. But I do remember that weird and fascinating closing scene, where a bunch of crazy bikers is driving around the historical centre of Rome in the middle of the night.

Here's the last movie scene that has made a huge impression on me, from the horror film "Spring" (which also happens to take place in Italy)- the camera movement and music in this clip are so fucking beautiful. I don't think falling in love with someone at first sight has been captured on film before so beautifully.

This one's also from Fellini's Roma, but I love the over-the-top ecclesiastical fashion show, which is a not so subtle dig at the filthy rich, corrupt Catholic Church and it's grip over Italy.

Romeo and Juliet - love at first sight scene with Leo, Claire Danes and Paul Rudd. They look so young here

Come on, the Jan Michael Vincent frontal from "Buster and Billie."

"What, the curtains?"

No matter how many times I watch this fucking scene, I laugh my ass off.

Polanski's opening witches scene for MacBeth.

The opening scene in Boogie Nights which introduces all the characters without cutting.

[quote] We've done this too many times.

If you feel that way, the problem then is that you're here much too often and been on here for much too long.

The rest of us are not posting here to suit you.

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The ferris wheel scene in The Third Man...also the opening scene of Moby Dick, where Orson Welles delivers a truly memorable sermon as the preacher. He was an underrated actor imo.

R9, thanks for sharing that one. I'll have to check out that film.

R14, that scene is one of the best thing’s I’ve ever seen. Polanski is a genius.

The last scene in The Third Man.

The end of Up when Carl gives Russell Ellie's bottle cap badge. Tears!

Suddenly compelled to help mankind, Amelie (Audrey Tautou) helps a blind man walk across the street and narrates the sights of the boulevard.

Too many to count from Rosemary's Baby.

The ice skating scene in "The Bishop's Wife" and the little scene immediately following

This one

The Crying Game when Jaye Davidson reveals his true self.

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Harold meets Maude scene (Harold and Maude, 1971)

The Shining - Danny riding his tricycle. Not my favorite but one the most brilliant scenes shot, it conveys real dread.

Woody Allen's Stardust Memories....the scene where he meets the aliens.

While watching "Rear Window" on DVD, I always find myself repeating (at least a couple of times) the scenes with Miss Lonelyhearts.

Another Stanley Kubrick film, Barry Lyndon. Not the most well-known of his films but it had the most gorgeous sets and costumes and was beautifully shot.

The fighting scene among the aristocrats, in their fancy wigs and breeches, slipping all over the place, LOL.

OP, that scene has always stuck with me. Thanks for posting it. Here's another one I always remember, from the opening scenes of "Tess."

Many scenes in this movie, but I think this one most of all....

Jack Twist? Jack Nasty!

The nurse scene from Exorcist III.

The scene from "The Emigrants" where a Swedish family gets the last glimpse of their home as they set off for America.

The Danny Boy scene from Miller's Crossing. Simply genius.

The opening of "Touch of Evil" is unparalleled filmmaking and still being emulated today.

American Beauty

While we're on Orson Welles -- the opening/ credits of his movie version of Othello are memorable too, too bad the film is practically impossible to find in a good print anywhere, let alone on YT.

At link is the best I could do.

The quietly devastating final scene from 'Un Coeur En Hiver'. Emannuele Beart's mournful look as the car pulls away kills me very time.

Letter scene from Bergman's Winter Light

The final scene of City Lights:

Johnny and the security guard in Naked (1993)

Liz and the shoe -- Whore (1991)

The love scene from The Color of Pomegranates

Many scenes from Solaris (1972) -- especially the last one. And this:

I love Harold Russell's homecoming scene in " The Best Years of Our Lives"-1946. So much beauty and truth in so little time.

Children of Men - car attack. The continuous one track shot fun to watch; imagine all the planning and choreography that goes into it.

Sean Penn's cocaine fueled rants in HurlyBurly are fucking glorious in every way. Especially the fight between he and Robin Wright in the car on the way to dinner.

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Citizen Ruth: Ruth confronts her mother.

(I FLOVE that Diane Ladd took this role opposite Laura Dern. Clearly they have a great sense of humor).

The skinnydipping scene from A Room with a View.

"For your information, the SUPREME COURT has ROUNDLY REJECTED PRIOR RESTRAINT!"

I also love that Walter ends up being right about the toe.

The brutal hopelessness of this scene. Especially since we know they haven't even seen the worst of it yet. The way Ben Kingsly delivers the line "I think I better have it now" crushes me every time.

R43 beat me to it. Close second:

October 14, 1947:

The Scene in Goodfellas where Henry (Ray Liotta) is taking Karen out to the club and its one long continuous shot from the car through all the hallways and kitchens until they get a table at the front of the stage. The music and the interaction between all the characters is perfect.

Dorothy enters Oz.

No, no, it's gotta be "You were going to ask me for money?" from Midnight Cowboy. Somebody post.

The final scene in Cinema Paradiso always makes me cry like a little bitch

Apollo 13 returns safely to Earth. Ed Harris at 4:58 breaks my heart when he finally gives in to the emotion he's been controlling for a week.

The abduction of Barry in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Equal parts mesmerizing and terrifying.

Almost Famous - I am a golden god.

Satyricon. That Clown. The nightmares.

R63, at the end, "Is that a man?"

Sure is, R72. And very much alive and kicking at 95.

"Let's not ask for the moon. We have the stars."

The opening montage to "Manhattan"; Gershwin + NYC + Allen =perfection.

Excessively low brow but Ive loved it since I was a kid. The restaurant scene from Porkys 2

Cher walking down the street early in the morning after spending the night with Nichols Cage in Moonstruck.

The wedding night/nightgown scene in A New Leaf.

^^^oh, yeah, that was fucking hysterical.

May wrote, directed, and starred in that. Qualifies her for some kind of pantheon. And she's on Broadway now, with Lucas Hedges!

The opening scene: Raise the Red Lantern

The final 3 minutes: El secreto de sus ojos, Nueve Reinas, Cinema Paradiso

The bookstore scene in The Big Sleep.

This scene in Blazing Saddles:

This. Simply the best!

Piper Laurie's death scene from Carrie

R88, and Mr. Little was so hot.

We have the same taste in movies, r62. The Third Man as a whole is probably my #1 desert island movie, and if you know Vienna, one of the many joys of watching it is seeing the characters run around the corner and suddenly be in a totally different part of the city.

They offer a Third Man tour that only goes in the sewers, but it really should cover all the shooting locations to give film fans a feel for the liberties Reed took with geography.

The showdown between Miss Brody and Sandy.

Out of Africa-the scene where Ffinch-Hatton takes Karen for her first flight. At one point, she reaches back to Ffinch-Hatton and takes his hand. It's at 4:53 in the link.

Opening scene Howard's End when Vanessa Redgrave walks about the garden in the twilight, the trail of her dress dragging in the grass.

The scene from Ratatouille where the food critic (voiced by Peter O'Toole) flashes back to his childhood. That moment hit me right in the gut.

How do I pick a favorite out of hundreds?

The superimposed skull on Norman's face at the end of Psycho? Slim ("YEEE-HAAA!") Pickens riding a nuclear bomb in Dr. Strangelove? Jim Carrey walking into the great unknown by opening the door in The Truman Show? Doris Day's voice (which, career wise, had been silence by her husband) averting an international incident at the Albert Hall in The Man Who Knew Too Much? "Baby Mine" in Dumbo? Marilyn singing "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend"?

Because it's fresh on my mind, having seen it a couple of months ago on the big screen for the first time at the IFC Center - the opening 10 minutes of Argento's Suspiria.

Ben Affleck on Will's job interview in Good Will Hunting.

"Ya' Suspect!!!"

Boom!

R52, that looks pretty trippy. Will have to check that one out.. It seems very UN-Soviet.

r99, I believe Parajanov was arrested as a result of this film. Something about its homosexual overtones, iirc.

Visually, it's one of the most striking films I've seen. It utterly transfixed me. Definitely watch it if you can.

In Amadeus, when Mozart is agonizing and Salieri is "helping" him , writing down his requiem. How the genius of the composer comes across, how Salieri who is smart is not sharp nor fast enough to follow the dying man, how we witness a man who came to watch his rival croak, hoping to steal from him. Brilliant.

The scene I found is incomplete, but you get the idea.

Ha ! A more complete scene, but it's in French.

I am married to England.

(95) I totally agree - the pen dropping, the flashback - a transforming moment. When I watch the film, i find myself holding my breath with the arrival of that scene.....

... the swan-bosomed sea. ... grim-visaged war. ...the winter of our discontent.

Last scene of Cries and Whispers Last scene of Au hasard Balthazar Last scene of Beautiful Thing Last scene of Central Station Muir Woods (not the actual filming site) scene in Vertigo The "Russian Ballet" parody at Hermione's estate in Women in Love The blackmail-tape-splicing scene from Manhattan Murder Mystery (Hello..."Pall"." "They're keeping her refrigerated.") Courtroom scenes from Serial Mom End of Ikiru (I have a thing for sad transcendence) Love and Death, introduction to Napoleon ("It's a greater honor for me...") Babette's Feast: Scene in which the general says goodbye to the older sister in the stable Interrogation/interview scene from The 400 Blows When Annie visits her daughter (Susan Kohner) at the nightclub in Imitation of Life So many others...

Good Christ, R105, that was indecipherable. Can we not format!?

Great thread and great choices!!!

Love this one.

This scene was very touching to me.

I wouldn't necessarily say this is my all-time favorite, but I do believe that it is clearly a classic moment that needs to be included.

R100, I found the entire film, subtitled in English, on Youtube. Didn't link to it here, because a 1 hr, 12 min video might slow down the thread, but I will check out!

Badass bitch.

Also this. Hell, the whole damn movie.

You bitches are slipping.

Thanks r115. Who really paid for that house, Jane or Blanche?

R57, that kicks ass. Sean Penn is hilarious.

Judy Davis would have been funnier opposite him, though.

Who would have thought the best film came from Japan?

Ziegfeld Girl Lana Turner makes one last walk down the stairs -

I've always found the scene where a man fights back against dying from exposure in Akira Kirosawa's "Dreams" to be exceptional. Beautiful, eerie but not sinister. Tragically peaceful.

To make a film about your actual dreams has to be the pinnacle of serenity for a filmmaker. I can't find the original clip but this will point people in the right direction:

Who can resist this?

You may say that I ain't free -

R122 I loved the saturation of color in that Disney animation period and the stylized, almost "rosemaling" look to the flora but my favorite Disney animation period was the blip era of "Sleeping Beauty". What a perfect balance of clean lines with busy textures. I love that contrast:

Here's our darling Scarlett -

The spider story in The Sweet Hereafter.

Both subway chase scenes in The French Connection. Of course I love the famous one, where Gene Hackman drives furiously under the New Utrecht Ave El to catch the criminal on the train, culminating in the famous shootout on the stairs. But I love the other one even more, the one where Hackman chases Fernando Rey, culminating in Rey's little wave goodbye. Two of my favorite actors in a brilliantly choreographed scene.

"You're too short for that gesture."

Mine, too r49.

R129 I've always loved that scene, as well. And I love that you have to watch the whole movie to understand just how much it means. Truly beautiful.

R130 Meaning, you have to invest in it yourself, give the time and attention to get there and really feel the weight of it.

Classic.

R118 - Ozu is nothing short of sublime.

But the same at times can be said of Kurosawa.

The longer version.

Fredo being taken out to be murdered in Godfather 2

What was a hobbit doing in The Godfather?

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When You're Slapped, You'll Take It & Like It - The Maltese Falcon

"Nothing is clean, this whole place is a mess"

The no holds barred, guttural emotion as it cuts to closeup of her slinging the dutch cleanser made me obsessed with this scene since I first saw it in the theater.

Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

R95 - pour vous.

If I could only tell you all...

'Tears in the rain' monologue from Blade Runner.

Night On Earth (Paris). The blind hooker and pied noir cabbie.

[118] and [119], so happy to see Ozu and Bresson mentioned here. Also, whoever posted the swing scene from Ikiru <3 I listed some of my favorite scenes above in an unformatted jumble. Not going to scroll back to find the number.

R74 For you. Thank you for reminding me of this scene.

And thank you, Max Steiner!

Most scenes in "The Big Sleep" but certainly the one in the office when B and B are joking around and call the police station.

Gets me everytime.

Everything Old Is New Again -- All That Jazz -- Bob Fosse

The scene in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, when MM is on the deck with George Foghorn Winslow and they're trying to fool Coburn.

Just about every scene in Pulp Fiction.

Almost all of House of Flying Daggers but like this scene in the field of flowers with the gorgeous Takeshi Kaneshiro.

“Say goodbye to Frankie, dad”

IN AMERICA is such a great film, and Paddy Considine is a legend.

The train scene in The Palm Beach story is sheer madness -- the dogs, the guns, the singing - and one terrified Snowball , un pc as it is....

The scene in Double Indemnity when Stanwyck and McMurray meet. Sizzling and funny.