It’s my favorite cause I like it most :D
So beautiful I can’t move my eyes or heart away from the screen.
EDIT: Gah, I can’t work out how to embed this thing…
cecil – go to youtube and click on embed under the video. it will give you the code. just copy and paste bro.
Nino, the youtube one told me I wasn’t allowed the embed code for that particular video. I went and found it on google videos, but that embed code isn’t working here for some reason.
pm me the scene you’re trying to find and ill send you back the code. im sure i can find it.
You can only embed from youtube and vimeo on this site. You can always hyperlink to the video, though…
This is certainly one of mine:
Tarr creates a mood immediately and maintains it for the seven hours in the film. Absolutely incredible what Tarr gets in a single shot.
I won’t say it’s my single favorite, but it’s one of many.
These are ten terrifying minutes. In this brief span of time, we see a large variety of viewpoints from the prisoner, his girlfriend, jailers, mob, and even politicians. There’s desperation, injustice, and bloodlust all being pushed to their limits. The sad irony of the sheriff talking about backup from the national guard suddenly cuts to a shot of soldiers waiting, just waiting, in their trucks which in turn cuts to the governor and his advisor calmly discussing their political motivations for not halting the mob. There are some incredible images, like the storming of the Sheriff’s office full of tear gas smoke like a battle in and of itself. And of course the citizen’s faces after they’ve set fire to the jail. Especially in the brief moment when one woman falls to her knees and begins praying.
Lang is brilliant. A master of chaos. Fury is indeed a dark, dark film.
Second time lucky…
So beautiful I can’t move my eyes or heart away from the screen.
Much thanks to Nino for helping me embed it.
This scene MUST be here:
The most important 6 minutes of all cinema history.
The final standoff in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” is my favourite scene in all of cinema.
Can’t find the video, but the part in The Darjeeling Limited with the song “Play with Fire” by The Rolling Stones is great to me.
Also in The Royal Tenenbaums, Richie’s suicide and the aftermath of his suicide.
The suicide scene is my favorite. The Darjeeling just happen to be on my mind right now.
Not sure about my favorite scene, but the following passage from “The Devil Probably” in which the protagonist talks to a psychoanalyst comes to mind. Bresson sums up the malady of modern society in a precise and subtle way, especially the eagerness to rationalize and simplify metaphysical concerns that have no virtue in an overly materialist and shallow profit-orientated world. Bresson suggests that those who won’t attune need to get adjusted, and if even this attempt fails, the only remaining option is suicide. His use of rythm and sound in this scene stands out for me, a great example of his craft.
The climax of Fellini’s neo realist masterpiece ‘La Strada’ [The Road]
It isn’t my favourite, for that I’d choose Vertigo, Judy’s transformation scene with the 360 degree angled kiss. But Vertigo has been used already and besides, this powerful image from Fellini is likely to be more gripping for those who know La Strada and what causes it and for those that don’t. The latter of which will be equalled moved by the scene’s emotional resonance.
wow godardnut. I’d of chose the same scene if I could pick another. Notice how Fellini moves the shot behind Anthony Quinn in the early part of it. Hardly anyone would start an ending scene like that, but Fellini succeeded in making the scene better and increasing dramatic effect.
A lonely man defeated by the world, and left to his memories and sorrows.
tragic indeed….
God what a hard one, there are just so many!!! … but I have to post Robert Redford in Network. I chose this scene not for aesthetic reasons but for content and performance. Overall an amazing film!
I really wanted to post a scene from Visitor Q but couldn’t find it … so enjoy this instead _
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINDtlPXmmE
Danny Kana
In my opinion, the most beautiful moment in cinema history