100 Great Movie Moments

by Roger Ebert

Reprinted from Ebert's website (originally posted April 23, 1995)
to honor the centennial of cinema



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."

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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."

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3. Charlie Chaplin being recognized by the blind girl in "City Lights."

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4. The computer Hal 9000 reading lips, in "2001: A Space Odyssey."

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5. The singing of "La Marseillaise" in "Casablanca."

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6. Snow White kissing Bashful & Dopey on the head in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

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7. John Wayne putting the reins in his mouth in "True Grit" and galloping across the mountain meadow, weapons in both hands.

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8. Jimmy Stewart in "Vertigo," approaching Kim Novak across the room, realizing she embodies all of his obsessions - better than he knows.

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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."

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11. Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta discuss what they call Quarter Pounders in France, in "Pulp Fiction."

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12. The Man in the Moon getting a cannon shell in his eye, in the Georges Melies film "A Voyage to the Moon."

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13. Pauline (Pearl White) in peril, tied to the railroad tracks, from the 1914 serial, "The Perils of Pauline."

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LOST EPISODE

14. A boy running joyously to greet his returning father, in "Sounder."

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15. Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock face in "Safety Last."

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16. Orson Welles smiling enigmatically in the doorway in "The Third Man."

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17. An angel looking down sadly over Berlin, in Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire."

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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."

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20. The Road Runner, suspended in air.
   
To Part 2

Greatest Film Moments and Scenes (by Filmsite)

Greatest Moments and Film Scenes Mini-Quiz (by Filmsite)

What is a 'Great Film Scene' or 'Great Film Moment'? (by Filmsite)

Tribute to 100 Greatest Classic Scenes and Moments (by Filmsite)

GREATEST MOMENTS AND SCENES - INDEX (alphabetical by film title)

Intro | Quiz | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 |
Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 |
Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 |
Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 |
Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 |


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