'There ain't no sanity clause!' Chico to Groucho in 'A Night at the Opera.' 'One word, Benjamin: plastics.' From ' The Graduate.'Ī man dying in the desert in von Stroheim's ' Greed.'Įva Marie Saint clinging to Cary Grant's hand on Mt. The mysterious body in the photographs in Antonioni's ' Blow-Up.' 'My father made them an offer they couldn't refuse:' Al Pacino in ' The Godfather.' 'Are you lookin' at me?' Robert De Niro in ' Taxi Driver.' The baby carriage bouncing down the steps in Eisenstein's 'Battleship Potemkin.' The children watching the train pass by in Ray's 'Pather Panchali.' The haunted eyes of the actress Maria Falconetti in Dreyer's ' The Passion of Joan of Arc.' Moses parting the Red Sea in 'The Ten Commandments.'Īn old man found dead in a child's swing, his mission completed, at the end of Kurosawa's ' Ikiru.' 'What have you done to its eyes?' Dialogue by Mia Farrow in 'Rosemary's Baby.' The casting of the great iron bell in Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Andrei Rublev.' Jean-Paul Belmondo flipping a cigarette into his mouth in Godard's 'Breathless.' The haunted eyes of Antoine Doinel, Truffaut's autobiographical hero, in the freeze frame that ends ' The 400 Blows.' The shooting party in Renoir's 'Rules of the Game.' Brown's last line in ' Some Like It Hot,' explaining to Tony Curtis why he plans to marry Jack Lemmon even though he is a man. Jack Nicholson trying to order a chicken salad sandwich in ' Five Easy Pieces.' 'Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet!' The first words heard in the first talkie, ' The Jazz Singer,' said by Al Jolson. Hannibal Lecter smiling at Clarise in ' The Silence of the Lambs.' Marlon Brando's screaming ' Stella!' in ' A Streetcar Named Desire.' and friend riding their bicycle across the face of the moon. The distant sight of people appearing over the horizon at the end of ' Schindler's List.'Į.T. The moment in Akira Kurosawa's 'High and Low' when a millionaire discovers that it was not his son who was kidnapped, but his chauffeur's son - and then the eyes of the two fathers meet.

Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg wading in the fountain in ' La Dolce Vita.' 'Smoking.' Robert Mitchum's response, holding up his cigarette, when Kirk Douglas offers him a smoke in ' Out of the Past.' Zero Mostel throwing a cup of cold coffee at the hysterical Gene Wilder in Mel Brooks' 'The Producers,' and Wilder screaming: 'I'm still hysterical! Plus, now I'm wet!'Īn old man all alone in his home, faced with the death of his wife and the indifference of his children, in Yasujiro Ozu's ' Tokyo Story.' The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination: Over and over again, a moment frozen in time.Ī homesick North African, sadly telling a hooker that what he really wants is not sex but couscous, in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Fear Eats the Soul: Ali.' Orson Welles smiling enigmatically in the doorway in ' The Third Man.'Īn angel looking down sadly over Berlin, in Wim Wenders' ' Wings of Desire.' Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock face in ' Safety Last.' Pauline in peril, tied to the railroad tracks.Ī boy running joyously to greet his returning father, in ' Sounder.' The Man in the Moon getting a cannon shell in his eye, in the Melies film 'A Voyage to the Moon.' Jackson and John Travolta discuss what they call Quarter Pounders in France, in ' Pulp Fiction.' The early film experiment proving that horses do sometimes have all four hoofs off the ground. Jimmy Stewart in ' Vertigo,' approaching Kim Novak across the room, realizing she embodies all of his obsessions - better than he knows. John Wayne putting the reins in his mouth in 'True Grit' and galloping across the mountain meadow, weapons in both hands. Snow White kissing Dopey Bashful on the head.

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