Your favorite movie moments?

[FirstAscent]

Growing up in the cold war, this movie scared the begeezers out of me for years after.

What movie is that?

[Vod]

The Day After

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/

The original air date (on ABC) was November 20, 1983. Over 100 million Americans were estimated to have viewed the program. Still rated as the most watched ever TV movie on US television as of December, 2012 (not including miniseries), it was watched by 38.55 million households or 46.0% with a Neilsen share of 62%.

[hlynur]

Enter the Void
best intro credit scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL0lNGXoP8E

best ego perspective ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9_f1rPgtno
and death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQy3qwKYgIo

Shining opening scene by stanley kubrick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgCejsyS0t8

Trainspotting
The Toilet scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJrWlHRT-18

weirdest scene ever to introduce character "Merde" in Leos Carax's movie "Holy Motors" (following scene combines this character with a fullshown erection looking at halfnaked eva mendez. i sat in the cinema with a constant WTF! in my head  ):
The Cemetary Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twcbKbLQUuA

Charlie Chaplin's final speech in "The Great Dictator" (One of the best speeches I heard so far):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQU9J2ssOF8

Goodfellas:
Camera Operator Michael Ballhaus famous "Copacabana Shot". (3:11min steadicam shot)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJEEVtqXdK8

Once upon a time in the west by Sergio Leonne:
showdown scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eHRK6zVFbQ

Once upon a time in America by Sergio Leone
Ending Scene "The Smile"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oczk6wf02qM

same movie and best scene transmission into a past storyplot with young Jennifer Connelly dancing the dying swan (unfortunately bad quality)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Ry0mNkCjw

and finally
Lady Vengeance...the ending... (Spoiler Alarm!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSUr2svzkRI

[FirstAscent]

The Day After

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/

The original air date (on ABC) was November 20, 1983. Over 100 million Americans were estimated to have viewed the program. Still rated as the most watched ever TV movie on US television as of December, 2012 (not including miniseries), it was watched by 38.55 million households or 46.0% with a Neilsen share of 62%.

Ahh. Thank you for clarifying. I don't recall seeing it.

[FirstAscent]

Hlynur, so good to see your return to discussion of films. It's been lonely in this land devoid of cinephiles. I got your message. Haven't replied yet, obviously. Please pick back up the Asian films thread - plenty more to say, but it helps when there's someone else to converse with.

[hlynur]

Hlynur, so good to see your return to discussion of films. It's been lonely in this land devoid of cinephiles. I got your message. Haven't replied yet, obviously. Please pick back up the Asian films thread - plenty more to say, but it helps when there's someone else to converse with.

couldn't resist posting. 
will continue in asian movie thread this we when I've watched some of your recommendations.
Don't feel too confident now to discuss about asian cinematography when I see your knowledge.
At least I can contribute some of the gems I've stumbled upon.

[FirstAscent]

Hlynur, so good to see your return to discussion of films. It's been lonely in this land devoid of cinephiles. I got your message. Haven't replied yet, obviously. Please pick back up the Asian films thread - plenty more to say, but it helps when there's someone else to converse with.

couldn't resist posting. 
will continue in asian movie thread this we when I've watched some of your recommendations.
Don't feel too confident now to discuss about asian cinematography when I see your knowledge.
At least I can contribute some of the gems I've stumbled upon.

One doesn't need great knowledge. Just curiosity. A question here or there goes a long way. I'm always willing to share, but not so much when there's no back and forth.

[AntiOps]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E84VqqCPI7w

Ha ha ha ha ha, classic. Never gets old

[FirstAscent]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E84VqqCPI7w

Ha ha ha ha ha, classic. Never gets old

Goodfellas is on my list of shame. I need to watch it.

[AntiOps]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E84VqqCPI7w

Ha ha ha ha ha, classic. Never gets old

Goodfellas is on my list of shame. I need to watch it.

Do it man. Brilliant from start->finish. You'll watch it more than once I bet ya

[RodeoX]

Let's not forget...



“The Matrix is the wool that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the
truth.” - Morpheus

bad ass

[FirstAscent]

Let's not forget...



“The Matrix is the wool that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the
truth.” - Morpheus

bad ass

RodeoX, please take a stab at your favorite twenty films, or something like that.

[RodeoX]

RodeoX, please take a stab at your favorite twenty films, or something like that.

That is hard. Here is a list of random movies I like and can think of.


Dreams
The matrix
Beasts of the southern wild
Natural born killers
Apocalypse now
Barton Fink
Saving private Ryan
Mongol
Slumdog Millionaire

I could go on forever. My favorites are often movies that I have not heard of, then find on netflix. 

[hlynur]

Children of Men
this movie has absolutely ground-breaking camera work

3min shot "Car scene", no cut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkb0SecL-9I

Historically one of the best shots of the last decade:
"Uprising scene" (whole version is a much longer steadicam shot around 10 min again no cut!!!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twcKoAQ7HIg
it even got the SOC Award 2012 by society of camera operators...(background info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvq3fKgvzro)


and of course the "Cease Fire" scene at the end. Emotionally one of my alltime favourites moments of western cinema. (you need to watch the whole movie to understand the culmination in this scene though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBzWTIexszQ

[FirstAscent]

RodeoX, please take a stab at your favorite twenty films, or something like that.

Dreams
* The matrix
Beasts of the southern wild
Natural born killers
* Apocalypse now
* Barton Fink
* Saving private Ryan
Mongol
* Slumdog Millionaire

I put a star beside the ones on your list that I have seen. Put a star beside the ones on my list that you have seen.

Some of my favorite films, in no particular order:

2001: A Space Odyssey
The Face of Another
Yi Yi
Yearning
Never Let Me Go
Red Beard
No Country for Old Men
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Pale Flower
Lost in Translation
Sansho the Bailiff
Pan's Labyrinth
Equinox Flower
The Thin Red Line
Chungking Express
Das Boot
Twenty-four Eyes
Floating Weeds
The Incredibles
Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
The Human Condition
An Education
Floating Clouds
Still Walking
In the Mood for Love
Early Summer
Late Autumn
2046
Late Spring
Days of Being Wild

[FirstAscent]

SHAUN OF THE DEAD!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J02-BtZ1bxE

That is a good movie!

[RodeoX]

I put a star beside the ones on your list that I have seen. Put a star beside the ones on my list that you have seen.

Some of my favorite films, in no particular order:

*2001: A Space Odyssey
The Face of Another
Yi Yi
Yearning
Never Let Me Go
Red Beard
*No Country for Old Men
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Pale Flower
*Lost in Translation
Sansho the Bailiff
*Pan's Labyrinth
Equinox Flower
*The Thin Red Line
Chungking Express
*Das Boot
Twenty-four Eyes
Floating Weeds
The Incredibles
*Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
The Human Condition
An Education
Floating Clouds
Still Walking
In the Mood for Love
Early Summer
Late Autumn
2046
Late Spring
*Days of Being Wild

Wow, that's a lot of movies I have not seen. I'll be reloading my netflix que. And as I read other peoples selections my list grows. For example "children of Men". That was a cool movie. Also, "Until the end of the world" is a hard to find and very different movie. Thanks for sharing these!

[FirstAscent]

I put a star beside the ones on your list that I have seen. Put a star beside the ones on my list that you have seen.

Some of my favorite films, in no particular order:

*2001: A Space Odyssey
The Face of Another
Yi Yi
Yearning
Never Let Me Go
Red Beard
*No Country for Old Men
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Pale Flower
*Lost in Translation
Sansho the Bailiff
*Pan's Labyrinth
Equinox Flower
*The Thin Red Line
Chungking Express
*Das Boot
Twenty-four Eyes
Floating Weeds
The Incredibles
*Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
The Human Condition
An Education
Floating Clouds
Still Walking
In the Mood for Love
Early Summer
Late Autumn
2046
Late Spring
*Days of Being Wild

Wow, that's a lot of movies I have not seen. I'll be reloading my netflix que. And as I read other peoples selections my list grows. For example "children of Men". That was a cool movie. Also, "Until the end of the world" is a hard to find and very different movie. Thanks for sharing these!

Dude! You saw Days of Being Wild? Do you realize that two other films on the list are essentially sequels to that film? Taken together, they amount to an amazing experience. I can't watch this youtube video featuring the song Perfidia without getting goosebumps of pleasure rolling up and down my spine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtkjXu-kEds

Do yourself a big favor and watch In the Mood for Love and 2046, the films which come after it.

Also, I would recommend that you immediately seek out the film Yi Yi on the list above. Truly a masterpiece. You have no idea.

[saif313]

I have many films and many moments which are my favorite need too much time for this to do this here

[ManicMeddler]

The Matrix Lobby scene, what else?

"Back up, send back up"