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. 4
(unranked)
(Links are to "Greatest Films" reviews)
Description of Moment Example

61. Robert De Niro's transformation from sleek boxer to paunchy nightclub owner in "Raging Bull."


62. Bette Davis: "Fasten your seat belts; it's gonna be a bumpy night!" in "All About Eve."

63. "There's a spider in your bathroom the size of a Buick!" Woody Allen in "Annie Hall."

64. The chariot race in "Ben-Hur."

65. Barbara Harris singing "It Don't Worry Me" to calm a panicked crowd in Robert Altman's "Nashville."

66. The game of Russian roulette in "The Deer Hunter."



67. Chase scenes: "The French Connection," "Bullitt," "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Diva."




68. The shadow of the bottle hidden in the light fixture, in "The Lost Weekend."


69. "I coulda been a contender." Brando in "On the Waterfront."

70. George C. Scott's speech about the enemy in "Patton": "We're gonna go through him like crap through a goose."

71. Rocky Balboa running up the steps and throwing his hands into the air, with all of Philadelphia at his feet, in "Rocky."

72. Debra Winger saying goodbye to her children in "Terms of Endearment."

73. The montage of the kissing scenes in "Cinema Paradiso."



74. The dinner guests who find they somehow cannot leave, in Bunuel's "The Exterminating Angel."

75. A knight plays chess with Death, in Bergman's "The Seventh Seal."

76. The savage zeal of the Klansmen in Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation."

77. The problem of Hulot forgetting to close the seaside hotel's front door, allowing a tornadic wind to create havoc with a series of small but amusing annoyances, in Jacques Tati's "Mr. Hulot's Holiday."

78. "I am big! It's the pictures that got small!" Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard."

79. "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore!" Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz."

80. An overhead shot beginning with an entrance hall, and ending with a closeup of a key in Ingrid Bergman's hand, in Hitchcock's "Notorious."



 
To Part 5

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 |
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Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 |
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