The greatest film moment.

The tango scene in 'Scent of a Woman'

mmm...a tango with al pacino..i've gone weak at the knees again...

Yes Richard. Also Gaff's lines as he leaves Deckard slouched in the rain: "It's too bad she won't live!... But then again who does?"

I was watchin Magnum Force last night. I love Clint Eastwood's films. The great line in this one, repeated under various circumstances, was "A man's gotta know his limitations."

chuck heston in planet of the apes when he sees the ruined statue of liberty, "damn you all to hell " or something like that, please correct me, memory not what it was and gladiator, when maximus whothefuckitwas has that speech, father of a murdered son, husband of a murdered wife, and I will have my vengance,etc and sparticus, I am sparticus apparently one of kirk's less famous sons was doing a comedy gig in london in the late 70s and he was dying on stage until someone stood up in the crowd and said .....I'm sparticus" and everyone joined in...saved that night but I don't think he ever did a comedy gig again.... oh hum.....

i love "withnail and i" ... it is hard to pick a favourite scene ... but i do love the bit where they go to uncle monty's to get the key to the cottage ... it's a fabulous scene ... especially the relationship between monty and the cat ... it makes me cry laughing ... he says "you must leave ... you must leave ... yet again that oaf has spoiled my day ..."

`Sense and Sensebility` at the end when Emma Thomson realises that the bloke she fancies is `actually` available, always makes me cry, honest! Loads of scenes in `Ground Hog Day`.

the 39 steps (robert donat) - a man, a woman, an open fire, handcuffs, wet tights and naughtiness ahead of its time...

Me turning off the television during Groundhog Day, the most tedious film of all time. Bugsy Malone, where Fat Sam hires out of town mobster talent to take care of Dandy Dan, notably one Looney 'Mad as a Hat' Bugonzi. It's an ambush, Dandy Dan's goons pull splurge guns and absolutely batter Looney while he stands rooted to the spot. Bugsy Malone cries, "Looney, what's the madder with you, Looney ?" I absolutely love Bugsy Malone. Goodfellas, the bit where Ray Liotta is paranoid as hell on coke,being hounded by the Feds, doing a deal to buy guns and cooking some meatballs all at the same time and Scorsese gives the meatball cooking just as much weight as everything else. "I can see that pin over there" in the Great Escape. Every single moment of High Society. The auction scene in North by Northwest.

The last fadeout scene of "The Family Way." Most touching thing John Mills has ever done, miles better than his oscar-winner in Ryan's pro-IRA Daughter. Ugh. Not very well known now, but a film that says more about real family life than virtually anything else I've ever seen. Oh, and the bit in "Doctor Zhivago." The scenes in the ice house.. Or most scenes in the whole film, really. The train, the near-the-end tram sequence. Pass the hanky. And the air raid sequence in "Things to Come".. scared me witless as a kid. No wonder people ran out of the pictures when it was first shown. Still looks terrifying today.

the scene jasmin mentions in Secrets and Lies is a good one; and from the same film, the cafe scene after the mother and daughter first meet is terrific. [another mike leigh film, Naked, contains one of my favourite film lines: “What’s it like being you? Bit chaotic?”] must agree with andrew about Groundhog Day. also like the elephant march in jungle book, and in Hope & Glory the jubilant scene where the boy turns up at school to discover that it has been bombed by the luftwaffe...thank you adolf! and gregory peck’s court scene in To Kill A Mocking Bird, the stoning scene in Life of Brian, and all dustin hoffman’s scenes in The Graduate and Marathon Man

forgot about that one dog star....very sexy moment...now that would be a great forum thread.....sexy film moments...might degenerate into a porn fest though........

....love Jimmy Stewart in wonderful life running throught the snow... ...also "Platoon", when Tom Beringer's character walks in on his troops slaging him off...."what do you all know about killin', I @!#$ on you" ...Kevin Costner in "Bull Durham" and his speech to Susan Sarandon about kisses that last 3 days, good whiskey, etc and David Niven....in " a matter of life and death" when he faces a trial in heaven to determine if he can go on living...

Er...Caligula, Martin

better admit that i also like john travolta's dancing in Pulp Fiction..

*rushing out to rent the 39 steps*

....forgot "naked", totally agree with you Robert, the "What's it like being you" scene.....brilliant. also in Scum...... "where's ya tool," "what fucking tool" "This fucking tool" "I'm the daddy now, next time I'll fucking kill you"...... reminds me of my school days where I was the daddy.....

Sorry to be so pedantic Justin but in the interests of accuracy wasn't it Malcolm McDowell in 'IF.' Roddy McDowell was a trained chimp if my memory serves me correctly.

.....waiting at the top of the steps....

...lying prostrate at the bottom... Oops, nearly said 'prostate' there. What a Freudian.

John L, Could very well be. I;m pretty sure it was some McDowell or other. Unless I am completely off, wasn't this the same guy who was in (1) Caligula (2) Lord Luv A Duck (3) Planet of the Apes, (4) Morgan, and lord knows how many more? He was all over the screen everywhere where I looked. Oh, and "Oh What a Lucky Man" as well?

I am Sparticus...... I am Sparticus .......... No ...No.....I am Sparticus......... no no no I am Ofar Quarson.......

Hey - with a few notable exceptions, there's not been much comedy mentioned. Fully agree with he stoning sequence in "Life of Brian" - for my money, the funniest British film ever. (Except, maybe, the Will Hay classics.) But, to be fair, the yanks made some goodies too - there are dozens of hilarious scenes in "Blazing Saddles" apart from the beans bit. Like the sequence near the beginning.. "Hey, what you doin', dancin 'round like a set of Kansas City faggots?" And the immortal bit where Cleavon Little, as the new black lawman, rides into a totally silent town and the "welcome" sign rolls up. Brilliant. Mel Brooks made some goodies.. "Robin Hood, Men in Tights" had more than its share of laughs.

couldn't agree more Roy apart from Men in Tights. Didn't really like that. Don't forget Cleese as the french kernigget in holy grail. I see you now have a webport address. Gus Havehall had one of those too. hmm?

Roddy was the chimp guy - not much else really. Malcolm was also in a Clockwork Orange as well as If. Could always verify at the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com)

Hi, Stormy.. webport?? No idea where that came from! I've only just noticed. After all that wroc stuff, don't ask me what's going on! No, "Men in Tights" wasn't up to the standard of "Blazing Saddles" - but what was? Tracey Ullmann was funny, but it's all down to personal taste, right? I thought that the "Springtime for Hitler" sequence in "The Producers" was one of the funniest, sickest ideas ever - would Brooks ever have got away with that if he'd not been Jewish? - but the rest of the film.. a bit too frantic and predictable for me. Loads of people love it, though. Takes all sorts, dunnit?

Stuff me, it came up again!! What's going on here??

It's been said before both here and elsewhere but - Uma Thurman and John Travolta dancing the twist contest at Jack Rabbit Slim's - Pulp Fiction. So many clothes left on and yet so very, very sexy. American Beauty - when Annette Benning stops Kevin Spacey shagging her on the sofa because it's '$4000 worth of pure Italian silk' and Kev. retorts 'the sofa ain't Life, it's just stuff.' Almost any scene you like from Some Like It Hot but I'll choose the one where the dragged-up Jack Lemmon comes back to the hotel and starts dancing around playing his maraccas joyously because he's just got engaged - to another bloke. Excuse me for being so god damn obvious but - Marilyn Monro. No, not any particular scene - just Marilyn Monro.

is marilyn munro related to matt munro ? inquiring minds need to know... jack lemmon...great actor, I watched Mr Roberts the other day, great film, Henry Fonda was magnificent, Jimmy Cagney in one of his last great roles and Jack lemmon in great form...avoiding the captain of his ship for 18 months cos he's scared of him...and then in a triumphant finish, throwing the captain's prize palm tree into the sea and proving beyond doubt that he was the daddy....... do you want some..........

IMDB: Malcome McDowell Clockwork Orange, IF, O Lucky Man, Planet of Apes, Caligula Roddy McDowell: Lord Luv a Duck and also: some of the Planet of the Apes movies! Neither one of them was in Morgan. There was no picture of Roddy on the imdb web site. Hmmmm. Maybe they are the same person? *grins*

Whichever McDowell was in IF Justin it was a bloody good film, wasn't it? How did all that English Public School stuff work for you (you're American, ain't ya)? No matter. I guess rebellion against an oppressive regime feels roughly the same everywhere. I'd clean forgotten that Malcolm (as well as Roddy) was in Planet of the Apes. By the way, I've thought of another favourite film moment if that is permissible: Gene Kelly stamping in the gutter in that 'Singing in the Rain' thing. Caligula - wasn't he the bloke who promoted his horse beyond his capabilities, just like we do with cabinet ministers in this country. And he did something to his sister he shouldn't really have done, didn't he? Never mind film moments but was I, Claudius just about the best thing on TV ever?

I'm not sure that Roddy McDowell's still alive, but Malcolm is. That's a pretty good way of telling them apart. Both English, but Roddy went to Hollywood in the forties - was in at least one early "Lassie" film. Yes, that ending of "The Graduate" is brilliant - so is Granpa doing the same routine in "The Simpsons". Can anyone answer a genuine question re. The Graduate? I remember Paul Simon on radio, saying how chuffed he was to have been picked to write the soundtrack - so when I heard "Mrs Robinson" before I saw the film, I got totally the wrong idea of what it would be about!! Who gave Paul the wrong script? Why is the Mrs Robinson in the song an old saddo in a home? The Anne Bancroft I ogled in the film doesn't fit the description.. It's always puzzled me. And finally - classic moment no. 873 - "You find my fwend funny? You there, do you find Biggus Dickus funny?" Sure do..

There are loads of film moments... but one that comes to mind is 'Forest Gump' I like the bit when he just gets up and starts running... I get those urges sometimes.

Roy: contrary to popular belief, Mr. Robinson the song was not written for the film, at least that's the way I heard it. It was a song they had that more or less fit, so they offered it. Simon should have know what the film was about: it was a book first. John L: I was at Yale when I saw IF. I did not attend a boarding school myself, but the whole English boarding school thing is quite well known in America (mostly through portrayels of it by British TV, film, books), especially at Ivy League colleges, as many of the students attended boarding school in the U.S. The U.S. schools were never as violent as the English boarding schools are portrayed, but the experience certainly has similarities. The more important point, however, is that this film was being shown in 1969-1970 when there were strikes and student unrest all over America, including Yale. So people saw it as a film about revolution and destroying the "system" rather than as something about boarding schools as such.

There are some really great scenes in movies which today are rather obscure. Goodbye Columbus: at the country club, all these guys introducing themselves by their university Dartmouth? yeah, Dartmouth! and Richard Benjamin taking some guy around who mistakes him for Sammy from Dartmouth until they find someone who claims to be Sammy from Dartmouth. Not so funny to write about buy hilarious to see. Also in this film, Ali McGraw at a wedding reception, a girlfriend asks what she was doing over the summer, she says: growing a penis. IF: another Roddy McDowell film, he was in everything there for a few years. at the end, the students are on the roof with machine guns mowing down the teachers feeling from the boarding school. "Will heironymous merkin ever forget mercy humph and find true happiness" I kid you not, that was the title, staring Anthony Newley. great sequence about a princes disquised as a donkey, newley is trying to catch her and it ends in disaster. all of this to a rhyming song which ends: the moral of the story is if you go in search of a greater glory, you're liable to lose your ass.

I liked IF too, Justin especially that bit where they met they girl in the roadside cafe . . . . . . .

Roddy McDowall is dead. he died a few years ago. He was in lassie films and also in plant of the apes, he played the main "nice" ape role, galahad, or gayland or something. Malcolm McDowall now seems to appear in cheesy American movies , he was in that thing about the fancy helicopter, with Jan Michael Vincent...., where is Jan Michael Vincent by the way, I heard he had a car accident and that was it, he is still alive as well..... now if only I can manage to work this towards Kevin Bacon........ermm

...PLANET OF THE APES...(not plant...that was another film, rarely seen nowadays....)

There's a hilarious website devoted to Kevin Bacon; it is called (I kid you not) Darla-Mae's Bacon-o-Rama. It's so plain loopy that I'm convinced it must be a parody.

Oh and there's spectacularly awful poetry devoted to Kevin Bacon (or the "Prime Porker" as Darla Mae calls him).

airwolf not to be confused with teenwolf ok im bored

Had to include an extract from Darla-Mae's Kevin Bacon biography/fantasy: "At the hospital for people that are horribly sick, KEVIN entered the main ward and his heart ached and the suffering of the human beings inside. These people were very sick, many of them dying, many contagious. But nothing could stand in the way of KEVIN'S huge heart. He walked over to one victim, suffering from leprosy and held his hand. "I know you are afraid," KEVIN said sympathetically, "But it will all be over soon". The sick man smiled with delight, and KEVIN worked his way around the room, caring not a bucket for what diseases he had caught, only for his fellow man who was dying..." Actually the site is quite disturbing as well (let's just say that Kevin's wife is not painted in a particularly flattering light).

The Graduate..where Dustin Hoffman is banging on the huge window/doors thing and yelling "Elaiiiine" in that heartbreaking passionate entreaty to stop her saying I do..." *swoon* Omar Sharif running alongside the tram in Dr Zhivago trying to make Julie Christie look up and see him *gulp* Billiy Elliots "@!#$ you dad" dance when he's caught by his father dancing when he should be boxing...the @!#$ monster in dogma.....the plastic bag dancing in the wind in American Beauty......

Oh what the hell... here have some of Darla-Mae's poetry too. Here's the "Ode to the Prime Porker": Oh, the man, the mystery The prime porker Why can't you be mine? Your wispy hair, I long to stroke it Those golden locks, why can't I hold it? Kevin, O Kevin, I long to hold you In my arms, not only in my mind Kevin, Kevin, Kevin O' Kevin Be mine and mine only, I'll love you forever Darling, prime porker....mine. Hope you're all suitably traumatised.

Fer me it has to be the chariot sequence in Ben Hur...and the entire movie at that! Also the courtmarshall in "The Caine Mutiny"

In The Graduate, I like the scene where I think Hoffman's dad says something like: What kind of a half-baked plan is that? and Hoffman says, "oh no, sir, it's fully baked." And of course, there is the classic sequence where his dad's friend takes Hoffman aside and tells him: One word. Just remember this one word: Plastics! However, I never saw The Graduate as being a comedy, even though the Channel 4 100 Best Comedies of All Time had it as number 6. There are a lot of funny scenes, but to me it was absolutely a drama and domestic horror story, not a comedy.

Domestic horror story absolutely Justyn.....my favourite film ever...

and also, very very sad, of course. My heart bleeds for Mrs. Robisnson in the film. And I'm horrified that Anne Bancroft was younger than me when she played the part....almost enough to make me stop eyeing up 18 year old boys myself (yes, l said "almost" Fish, before you say it) And what an excellent soundtrack too...."it's a housework soundtrack", says my mum. "ideal to do the hoovering to" She lives in hope, poor love.

*saying nothing*

True Romance - final shoot-out scene where much confusion and huge bodycount ensues The English Patient - Ralph carrying Kristin to the cave and she says "I always wear it (the thimble), I always loved you" - the expression on his face is just heartbreaking Reservoir Dogs - Mr Blonde's ear-cutting scene...clichedly popular, I know, but still bloody cool. The Last Seduction - Linda Fiorentina's poor wee "designated f*@k" wants to know if she's hiding her feelings from him or if she really is a total bitch (this conversation goes on while they're having sex). Riding him, cowgirl style, she yells "I'm a TOTAL F*@KING BITCH!!!" Whole movie is amazing. La Regle du Jeu - Where they fight over a dead rabbit....really bloody funny, though it may not sound so...... The Lost Boys - Corey Haim in the bath....mmm (sorry!)