Top Ten Movie Scenes

There are scenes from certain movies that I can practically recite by heart, I’m sure there are for most of us. However, there are some scenes with practically no talking at all that are still burned into my brain. Here are ten of my favourites: - Ghost Ship You don’t even need to have seen the film to know which scene I’m talking about with this one, it was included in the trailer. First time I saw it I was literally left staring speechless at the TV, and that really doesn’t happen to me often. The scene goes like this – “camera pans in on to the deck of an old fashioned and glamorous cruise ship, it’s dark and there’s a party in progress with a very ...  Read the complete review

Some movie scenes just manage to stay with you and in some ways define the entire movie and especially my enjoyment of it so here goes my own personal top ten. Number one has to be the scene from the Godfather which has Michael Corleone being Godfather to his sisters child and renouncing the devil and after each line that he says the action cuts away to show the assasination of one of the other crime family leaders, it has a moving prescence to it and a crhing soundtrack that tends to understate the violence unfolding on the screen. The train station scene in The Untouchables with the slow motion descent of the babies pram whilst all around shots ...  Read the complete review

The Deer Hunter (1978) "We gotta play with more bullets" In cinema there is no more an immediate scene dealing in death than this one, the sight of Robert DeNiro and his army buddies John Savage and Christopher Walken having to play Russian Roulette with a loaded pistol to entertain their North Vietnamese captors truly harrowing. Each is plucked out of a cage in the snake and bug infested river like fresh lobster and forced to spin the barrel and then aim the pistol at their own heads and pull the trigger, slapped very hard by their guards if they didn't (the slapping in the film genuine for authenticity). But the winner doesn't go free ...  Read the complete review

In chronological order ORPHÉE (Jean Cocteau) 1950 This is Jean Cocteau's beautiful atmospheric masterpiece packed with mythological symbology and his acute surrealist imagination. Jean Cocteau was a poet and this film is pure cinematic poetry. There are many magical scenes from beginning to end but the dreamlike sequence where Orphée (Jean Marais) passes through a mirror and enters the underworld is truly hypnotic. Sting copied the technique in a video for the song "We'll Be Together" in 1987. LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini) 1960 I often think Fellini's film gets a little too much praise and is not quite the ...  Read the complete review

TOP 10 MOVIE ENDINGS When it comes to those films that remain in the public consciousness to be remembered for all time, there's usually an astute and well-observed reason for such an incidence. Of course, the film is likely to be good - well better than good. Phenomenal even! Made up of a fine cast, assured direction, a pitch perfect musical score, sublime script and masterfully paced plotting, it would be understandable to think that these are the stated obvious reasons. If anything, they certainly contribute into making memorable movie sequences that transcend the film to live an eternal life of their own on various Channel 4 Top 100 programmes. No. What ...  Read the complete review