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100 Great Movie Moments by Roger Ebert Reprinted from Ebert's website (originally posted
April 23, 1995) |
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(unranked) (Links are to "Greatest Films" reviews) |
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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. |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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(alphabetical by film title) |
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