Submitted by Carole M 6/21/01:

• The umbrella walk in the rain in DIVA
• The opening and closing credits of Chariots of Fire
• The burial scene of the mother in Endurance
• Any intimate scene involving James Spader including especially, Sex Lies and Videotape, The Watcher, White Palace, DreamLover and even that sci-porn SuperNova. He has a gift of really showing care and love in those scenes.
• James Cagney going to the death chamber in Angels with Dirty Faces.
• The scene in 40 Carats when Edward Albert Jr first meets Liv Ullman.
• The ending scene in Flirting with Noah Hathaway on the rock.
• The scene in Days of Heaven when Sam Shepard realizes he's being deceived.
• The scene when the outraged mother-in-law rejects her future daughter-in-law's brother in A Time for Drunken Horses
• The scene in The Widow of St Pierre when Daniel Auteil's character defends his wife against the town gossip. Also, the sexually-charged fingers scene. (You have to see it to know what I mean.)
• The ending scene of Butterflies are Free.
• The bear scene in Memento

Submitted by Sean C 3/5/01

• Decalogue (One): When the tipped-over candles drip onto the Black Madonna and dry as tears.
• The Third Man: Orson Welles' "entrance."
• 2001: The shot of the piece of bone thrown into the air and the cut to the space ship.
• The Shining: The tracking shot of the boy's big wheel ride through the hotel.
• Vertigo: The spinning, subjective kissing scene between James Stewart and Kim Novak.
• Breaking the Waves: The artistic "chapter interludes."
• Casablanca: The final scene between Bogart and Bergman at the airport, and the close up on Bergman's face.

Submitted by Joy S 1/17/01

• Box of Moonlight: Underwater scenes of each character jumping into the water.

Submitted by Laura 10/30/00

• In Play It Forward in the hospital hall, no words heard but Hunt is told her son is dead. The most exquisitely choreographed collapse into grief with Spacey coming in behind her, holding her, falling with her into sorrow. I'll see it again for that scene - it made my heart sing with longing.!

Submitted by Jarod H 7/31/00

• Dead Man: Where Johnny Depp playing William Blake runs into to marshall and asks if they've read his poetry and shoots them.!

Submitted by Margaret G 6/23/00

• That guy dancing around in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest!
• When Juliette Binoche chews feverishly on the candy that belonged to her dead son in Blue.
• In Cider House Rules when the doctor says goodnight to the children and they share some words with each other before going to sleep.

Submitted by Katherine B 10/15/99

• The English Patient: Towards the end of the movie when Count Omarje is holding dying Catharine in his arms and he looks down and sees the thimble that he bought for her and he says "You are wearing the thimble", and she replies "I always wear it, I've always worn it, I've always loved you'' - That part makes me cry so hard!!!

Submitted by Hannah, 8/13/99

• Some Like It Hot: Marilyn Monroe singing "I'm through with love" She finsishes and Joe dressed as Josephine kisses her. She opens her eyes and says "Josephine!" Sweet Sue yells "BEANSTALK!!!" Joe reveals himself to be himself by saying "Don't sweat it Sugar. No guy is worth it."

• The Godfather, Part II: Diane Keaton half asleep as Kay says to her husband "Michael, why are the drapes open???" BADABING!!

• Back To The Future: Mr Strickland says to Marty "No McFly ever amounted to anything in the history of hill valley!" Marty replies with, "Yeah, well history is gonna change."

• The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy steps from the black and white world of Kansas into the colour world of Oz: "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas any more."

• Saturday Night Fever: Tony: "Will you just watch the hair! You know, I work on my hair a long time, and you hit it. He hits my hair."

• The scene in Modern Romance when Albert Brooks decides to date someone after his breakup. He goes to the date's door and helps her into his car and then drives away. They drive until they end up back in front of her door and he tells her he can't do it, he's not ready for a relationship . . . it's very, very, funny!

Submitted by Roger R:

• Midnight Cowboy: Joe Buck holding his dead friend Rizzo as reflections of palm trees pass by.

• Beauty and The Beast: Belle's long slow motion entrance into the Beast's palace (this is the Cocteau version by the way).

• Taxi Driver: The slow motion shot of travis watching Betty walk through a crowd.

• Jules and Jim: The race between Jules, Jim, and Catherine.

• Apocalypse Now: When Jim Morisson starts to sing the opening line to "The End" and the napalm falls on the jungle.

• Mean Streets: The fight in the pool hall.

• When the hairdressers husband dances in The Hairdressers Husband

Submitted by Charles P, 9/28/97:

• Beyond Rangoon: The look on Aung San Suu Kyi's (Adelle Lutz's) face as she walks through the line of soldiers. She cycles from relief to triumph in the blink of an eye.

• Pretty in Pink: When Andie (Molly Ringwald) retuns home from her date and a goodnight kiss, she is so preoccupied that her father (Harry Dean Stanton) tells her that a good kiss will scramble anyone's head.

• M: The moment Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) notices that he is marked.

• Sunset Boulevard: "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."

• Duck Soup: Groucho fires on his own troops as Harpo canvasses the war-ravaged countryside for recruits.
• Maltese Falcon: After a particularly tense meeting, Humphrey Bogart presses the call button for an elevator, and notices that his hand is trembling.
• Night of the Hunter (script by James Agee, directed by Charles Laughton): Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish sing "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms."
• High and Low (Kurosawa): Every time Toshiro Mfune answers the phone, his face and his voice convey a slightly different emotion.
• Nixon (Oliver Stone): In the film's opening shots of the White House, fisheye lenses and strange camera angles give the viewer a sense of disorientation, if not outright vertigo.

Submitted by Milkweed 10/27/97

• The Magic Flute: When Papageno talks Swedish with his mouth full.
• American Graffiti: The scene of the sun rising as all of the cars are stopping for the drag race.
• Point Break: When Keanu Reeves jumps out of the plane without a parachute (something I wish would happen in real life).
• Singin' in the Rain: When Gene Kelly and Donald O' Connor sing "Fit as a Fiddle" while playing each other's violins.
• Manhattan: watching the sun rise (if you've seen the movie, you'll remember the scene).

• Minnie Driver and John Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank:

  M: You can't come in.
  J: I'll give you an airplane.
  M: You can come in... but only for a little bit.

Submitted by Juan E 12/5/97:

• One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest: Randle McMurphy, refusing to accept to defeat at the hands of Nurse Ratched, starts to watch the World Series on a blank television screen and gets his fellow inmates to join him as he gets more and more involved in the "game".