Grand Finales
By: Jon
The last part of a film one is left with is the ending. Everything that came before leads up to this, the final moments, the closing wisps of film before the screen turns black, leaving you to contemplate its concluding frames. Days later, when a film gets this essential closing element just right, those images will stick in your brain, following you like a specter, indelibly, unable to be shaken. The power of the end cannot be overstated; here, I list what I believe to be 15 extraordinary, haunting, immaculately timed and executed film finales.
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01Federico Fellini
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02François Truffaut
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03Carol Reed
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04Roman Polanski
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05Arthur Penn
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06Lindsay Anderson
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07Billy Wilder
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08Francis Ford Coppola
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09Charlie Chaplin
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10Michael Curtiz
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11Sidney Lumet
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12Francis Ford Coppola
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13Billy Wilder
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14Ethan Coen
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15George Roy Hill