100 Great Movie Moments

by Roger Ebert

To honor the centennial of cinema, film critic Roger Ebert posted a list of his "100 Great Movie Moments" on his website, dated April 23, 1995.

Filmsite.org notified Ebert of some corrections to the list, reposted the list and also added
its own illustrations for each of the "movie moments"


100 Great Movie Moments - pt. 3
(unranked)
(Links are to "Greatest Films" reviews)
Description of Moment Example

41. An old man found dead in a child's swing, his mission completed, at the end of Kurosawa's "Ikiru."

42. The haunted eyes of the actress Maria Falconetti in Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc."

43. The children watching the train pass by in Ray's "Pather Panchali."

44. The baby carriage bouncing down the steps in Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin."

45. "Are you lookin' at me?" Robert De Niro in "Taxi Driver."

46. "My father made them an offer they couldn't refuse": Al Pacino in "The Godfather."


47. The mysterious body in the photographs in Antonioni's "Blow-Up."

48. "One word, Benjamin: plastics." From "The Graduate."

49. A man dying in the desert in von Stroheim's "Greed."


50. Eva Marie Saint clinging to Cary Grant's hand on Mount Rushmore in "North by Northwest."



51. Astaire and Rogers dancing. ["Swing Time", or "Top Hat"]


52. "There ain't no sanity clause!" Chico to Groucho in "A Night at the Opera."

53. "They call me Mr. Tibbs." Sidney Poitier in Norman Jewison's "In the Heat of the Night."

54. The sadness of the separated newly-wed lovers (including the vision of the distraught husband Jean imagining his wife Juliette in her bridal gown reflected in the water), in Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante.

55. The vast expanse of desert, and then tiny figures appearing, in "Lawrence of Arabia."



56. Jack Nicholson on the back of the motorcycle, wearing a football helmet, in "Easy Rider."

57. The geometrical choreography of the Busby Berkeley girls. ["Golddiggers of 1933", "Footlight Parade"]


58. The peacock spreading its tail feathers in the snow, in Fellini's "Amarcord."

59. Robert Mitchum in "The Night of the Hunter," with "LOVE" tattooed on the knuckles of one hand, and "HATE" on the other.


60. Joan Baez singing "Joe Hill" in "Woodstock."

 
To Part 4

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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