Friday, January 25, 2008

even more cinematic moments

clipped from www.filmsite.org
The Birds (1963)
- THE SCHOOL YARD
Hitchcock followed Psycho with this
an oblivious Melanie (Tippi Hedren) smoking the
slowest-burning cigarette in movie history on a schoolhouse swing set
while hundreds of crows gather behind her.
Annie Hall (1977) - LOVE ON A ROOFTOP
everyone has a favorite scene - the lobsters! Marshall McLuhan!
the cocaine sneeze! - the getting-acquainted chat between Keaton and Allen
on the deck of Annie's apartment is as charming as the first flush of
love
From Here to Eternity
(1953)
- WAVES OF LOVE
The surf, the beach, the kiss
I never knew it could be
like this," says a breathless Kerr, an actress who, until this role,
had played only genteel types
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) - UNMASKED
Dubbed "the Man of a Thousand Faces," silent
star Lon Chaney created his own makeup for everything from hunchbacks
to little old ladies.
crowning achievement, though, was in Rupert
Julian's classic, as the disfigured Phantom
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