Film critic Roger Ebert's 1995 list of 100 Great
Movie Moments
(unillustrated originally, but illustrated on this site)
Other Sources for Greatest Film Scenes and Moments: Over
the years, other popular magazines and newspapers have also compiled
their own selections of greatest movie moments, almost all
of which were already included in this site's selections and
listings. For example:
Entertainment Weekly compiled its own
list of the 100 Greatest Moments in Movies (1950-2000) in its September 24, 1999 issue. To limit the sprawling subject,
the editors decided to save pre-'50s movies for another tribute,
and foreign films and documentaries received only brief recognition.
Their list started halfway through the history of film.
Premiere
Magazine compiled a list of 100
Greatest Movie Moments of All Time from 100
years of movies, in its March, 2003 issue. Their
list of memorable movie moments was compiled from "multiple
reader suggestions, multiple staff meetings, multiple
debates among movie-loving friends, multiple long
nights replaying multiple moments mentally and
on DVD."
Included in their list was Charlton Heston's sight
of the Statue of Liberty on the beach in Planet
of the Apes (1968) at # 59,
Jack Nicholson's retort to a waitress to "Hold
it between your knees" in Five
Easy Pieces (1970) at # 29, and Marilyn
Monroe's white skirt blown up by wind from a subway
grating in The
Seven Year Itch (1955) at # 31.
The Observer,
the Sunday version of the British newspaper
the Guardian Unlimited, published (in
its February 6, 2000 edition) votes taken in
late 1999 and early 2000 for "the
100 most memorable moments in film history." In
more than 15,000 votes taken during the polling,
2,500 different moments received at least one
vote. The # 1 moment was from The Usual
Suspects (1995) when detective Kujan realized
who Keyser Soze was. The films in the # 2 to
# 5 positions included: the shower scene from Psycho
(1960),
Harry Lime's appearance from the dark shadows in The
Third Man (1949), the jump cut from the
flying bone to the spaceship in 2001:
A Space Odyssey (1968), and the dawn
helicopter raid in Apocalypse
Now (1979). The full
list with scene analysis may be accessed
online.
IGN Entertainment Online compiled
their Top
100 Greatest Movie Moments of All-Time in
a list that they promised "encompasses the very
best that cinema has to offer." In their 100
web-pages listing, they included "black-and-white
classics rubbing shoulders with modern-day blockbusters,
with shocking horror moments wedged between action
sequences and song-and-dance numbers." Quite
a few of their selected moments were related
to famous film quotes, for instance: # 1 ("I
am your father" from The
Empire Strikes Back (1980)), # 2 ("Make
him an offer he can't refuse" from The
Godfather (1972)), # 3 ("Rosebud" from Citizen
Kane (1941)),
# 4 ("You talkin' to me?" from Taxi
Driver (1976)),
and # 5 ("We're gonna need a bigger boat" from
Jaws (1975)).
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Other Sources for Greatest Film Scenes and Moments: Over
the years, other popular magazines and newspapers have also compiled
their own selections of greatest movie moments, almost all
of which were already included in this site's selections and
listings. For example:
