Classic Film Moments - A Personal List

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I started compiling a list of some of my favorite movie moments for another site and thought I'd put them up here, too. Some random, some pretty classic, all memorable:

Tatum O'Neal refuses to part company with her father Ryan's Moses until he gives her a fair share of the money in Paper Moon; at the end of To Each His Own, Olivia de Havilland is told by her son that she's his mother and he asks her to dance; "You were a wonderful lover" -- Maggie the Cat tries to seduce her husband in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Sal Mineo's two different colored socks in Rebel Without a Cause; Gabrielle Anwar's first jump off of the high board as a blind woman in Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken; Ricki Lake and Shirley MacLaine's duet in Mrs. Winterbourne; Julie Andrews pulls off a free dinner for herself and Robert Preston in Victor/Victoria; the bridge collapes in Bridge on the River Kwai; "We've had this date from the beginning" Marlon Brando to Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire; Jack Nicholson's conversation with the first caretaker in the men's restroom in The Shining; Alma sees Jack and Ennis kiss in Brokeback Mountain; the truth of the impending horror dawns on Ida Kaminska in The Shop on Main Street; Beatrice Straight's seven-minute appearance in Network for which she won Best Supporting Actress; Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) and Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) meet for the last time in Julia; Bette Davis screaming "But ya are in that wheelchair, Blache! Ya are!" in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?; the second excruciating derby scene in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; the masterful stag sequence in The Queen; "We won! We won!" in Life is Beautiful; the moment when Geraldine Fitzgerald realizes that Bette Davis' brain tumor has finally started to make her go blind in Dark Victory; the un-veiling of Dorothy Michaels in Tootsie; Catherine Burns' heartbreaking monologue in Last Summer; the reunion at the train station between Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton in Reds; Geraldine Page's walk into the ocean after Mary Beth Hurt's final monologue in Interiors; the look on Ingrid Bergman's face as her daughter (played by Liv Ullman) plays the piano for her in Autumn Sonata; Greer Garson's "Aha!" moment in Madame Curie; the last scene in Running on Empty where Christine Lahti and Judd Hirsch let River go; Kevin Kline's fate is cemented in A Fish Called Wanda; Tom Berenger's self-hatred and homophobia take a deadly turn in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; George gets the first whiff that her character's being written off during a script reading in The Killing of Sister George; Steve Martin meets Liev Schrieber face-to-face in Mixed Nuts; Geena Davis' look of elation when William Hurt stops to pick her up in The Accidental Tourist; May Welland throws her cousin, Countess Olenska, a farewell dinner for all of the Guilded Age society to see in The Age of Innocence; Joanne Woodward and Sylvia Sydney have lunch before seeing Bergman's Wild Strawberries in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams; "Isn't that the pot calling the kettle beige?" -- The Boys in the Band get uber-bitchy; Barbra sings "People" in Funny Girl; Nicole Kidman at the train station in The Hours; the phone conversation between La Streep and Chris Cooper in Adaptation; the ice house in Doctor Zhivago; "Check, please", Catherine Keener in Being John Malkovich; "Oh, I can handle the socks" -- Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest; Jennifer Hudson belts out "the song" in Dreamgirls.



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