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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #83 &#8211; THE RULES OF ATTRACTION</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching The Rules of Attraction, you feel the urge to hunt these young adults down, knock the perfect teeth out of their fresh young faces and allow them all to sleep with each other in a mass, drunken and coke filled orgy, so they can finally get over their hangs up of who is sleeping with who because the question will then, finally become irrelvant. They are all doing it with each other and none of it means a thing.
For such a despicable movie, I've always actually kind of liked it, in a weird way. Go figure, huh? But I guess you don't particularly have to like any of the characters to enjoy a movie. The same can be said about Brett Easton Ellis' previously adapted novel American Psycho, try and find a sympathetic character there right?
But I've always been fond of one scene in particular which delievers on a pure visceral joy and vitality level showing brass confidence from director Roger Avary who fills his some of the best blending of music and character that I think I've seen.



The great scene in question is the split screen waking up of Lauren (Shannyn Sossamon) and Peter (James Van Der Beek) ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #82 &#8211; SAFETY LAST!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Charles Chaplin last week, we bring you another example of a glorious scene without dialogue and possibly one of the ten most memorable images of 20th Century Cinema.

SAFETY LAST!, the 1923 silent movie still holds up today because of it's incredible visceral imagery and such precise storytelling and cinematic melodrama. American silent film star Harold Lloyd, more popular at the box office than Chaplin or Keaton in his day, pulls off this miraculous stunt of climbing a 12 story skyscraper to prove the love to his girl but encounters various humorous obstacles at each floor which puts him in grave danger.



That's not just him the character, but him as an actor too. And to think, Lloyd did this ten years after he lost the thumb and right index finger on his right hand after an accident on set forcing him to wear a prosthetic glove for this scene.

His biggest obstacle is trying to regain his balance with the aid of a large clock!

Of course, it's to the credit to co-directors Fred        C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, Lloyd himself and everyone else that worked on the movie that it works as well as ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #81 &#8211; THE GREAT DICTATOR</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I'm back in charge of the Greatest Movie Scenes feature after a brief time away from it and I promise some awesome moments of spectacular cinema to come in the weeks ahead. Some real treats to digest and discuss.

I heard this week that a new 15th anniversary edition of the Richard Attenborough movie CHAPLIN is to be released on October 15th, a movie which features an Academy Award nominated performance from a young Robert Downey Jr. Which got me thinking of the real life film legend and this week, I've been attempting to catch up on his movies, many of which I haven't seen in years.

For me, his best and most astonishing work was THE GREAT DICTATOR.


A movie made during the Second World War where Hitler was still very much a global and feared figure, a film star took a tremendous risk by acting, directing and financing such a strong Anti Nazi-propaganda film. Such a satirical nightmare, such anger from Chaplin.

In this scene, we can really feel his hatred towards men like Adolf Hitler and how psychologically insane such dictators are. Treating the world as their plaything, something they own and can dance around with, juggle about with to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #80 &#8211; BONNIE AND CLYDE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bonnie and Clyde was a film that broke boundaries upon its release in 1967 and, in a monumental watershed, transcended the taboos of mainstream Hollywood cinema. Arthur Penn’s excellent outlaw biopic shocked with its anti-hero celebration, open sexuality and bloody shootout action. It also, as an interesting aside, marked the movie debut of Gene Wilder, most famous for playing the title character in Willy Wonka &#38; the Chocolate Factory and being a key player in many a Mel Brooks movie.

Making a brief cameo as Eugene Grizzard who suffers the indignity of having his car nabbed by Bonnie and Clyde’s Barrow Gang, Wilder’s first feature film role is a memorable, marvellously comic episode. Impulsively going after the thieving gang, led by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the notorious criminal couple, Grizzard and girlfriend Velma find the tables turned as they become the prey and are taunted and taken hostage in Grizzard’s own automobile.


Trapped and out riding with the famous fugitives and their fellow hoods (including Gene Hackman as Buck Barrow) what follows is a crackingly humourous scene in which Grizzard and Velma squirm uncomfortably in the presence of the unsavoury company. Wilder’s nifty display of nervous apprehension is especially enjoyable ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #79 &#8211; FITZCARRALDO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Klaus Kinski loved a confrontation, and it’s refreshing to see the wild-eyed blonde Teuton put up a gutsy front against someone who isn’t regular director/chosen nemesis Werner Herzog for a change. Fitzcarraldo sees Kinski at his dynamic finest playing Irish idealist Brian “Fitz” Sweeney Fitzgerald; “Conquistador of the Useless” and eccentric cultural visionary.


As a lover of music, Fitz is determined to build an opera house and bring his passion to the Peruvian jungle backwater town of Iquitos and will not let any obstacle obstruct his obsession. In Werner Herzog’s epic 1982 film we see Kinski’s character take on - amongst other things - a mutinous crew, mysterious tribes and raging rapids for the sake of realising his dream. It’s the party sequence early on though that gives us a real grasp of Fitz’s dogged resolve as he faces down the highfalutin rubber barons who scoff and rubbish his plans.

With Herzog’s masterful hand in control and Kinski’s energy on display, the clash between the imaginative Fitz and the emotionally-dead aristocrats makes for a crucial and poignant moment. Unable to make them invest in his ambition to “give expression to our greatest feelings”, Fitz is triumphantly turned out of the high society ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #78 &#8211; MOULIN ROUGE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baz Luhrmann]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2001 Australian director Baz Luhrmann brought the musical back to the big screen with spectacular sparkle by unleashing the magnificent Moulin Rouge! on unsuspecting cinema audiences. Embedding a heartstring-tugging story with stunning visual style and song-and-dance numbers, Baz’s biggest hit so far is a bravura blast of experimental filmmaking that presents turn-of-the-century Paris through a postmodern pop-tinged filter.


The scene where Ewan McGregor’s penniless writer Christian captivates Nicole Kidman’s kinky courtesan Satine is one such sequence that creatively brings together Luhrmann’s offbeat ideas. Taking the two protagonists and placing them on the top of the elephant tower in the grounds of the infamous Montmartre nightclub, Satine and Christian embark on their passionate love affair by singing a more cinematic version of Elton John’s “Your Song”

The “Your Song” sequence shows that not only do McGregor and Kidman have believable chemistry but that they can also hold a tune - all the while expressing the joie de vivre that serves as the very essence of the film. As with the rest of the movie it’s pleasing on both eye and ear and bursts with life and exuberant flamboyance. Moulin Rouge! carries its credo of “freedom, beauty, truth and love” through to the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #77 &#8211; AKIRA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Replicating the vigour and aesthetic excitement in totally immersive colour, the 1988 movie adaptation of Katsuhiro Ōtomo’s graphic novel series Akira is one hell of an assault on the viewer’s eyeballs. A triumph of anime, the movie holds rightful renown as a seminal masterpiece that astounds and totally overwhelms as a sensory cinema experience
Before the film delves deeper into its philosophical plotting, things kick off with the burning rubber of a breathless bikechase through Neo-Tokyo. Pushing pedal straight to the metal for high-speed action across the manga metropolis, Akira instantly captivates and immerses the audience in its dystopian world of biker gangs, nuclear anxiety and teenage rage. Every little detail - from the decoration of Kaneda’s supercool suped-up ride to the light trails, from the neon cityscape backdrop to the bombastic explosions - is painstakingly presented with incredible artistic energy.

This is Japanimation at its most visceral and exciting and the introductory bike sequence in Akira establishes setting and style in such a fine manner, you can’t help but fall head over handlebars in love from the off. Rev up, and take in this anime revelation...

You can view all our Greatest Scenes by clicking HERE. If you find any broken links ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #76 &#8211; MARTY</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the sorrow and sadness of being single. It’s possible that no motion picture has managed to illustrate the loneliness and despair felt by the unloved of the world better than 1955’s Marty. The story of Ernest Borgnine’s titular bachelor and his attempts to find romance, Delbert Mann’s film is genuinely moving and justifiably secured four Academy Awards thanks to its truly touching realism-rooted narrative.


Embodying both warm character and tremendous sadness, Borgnine got the Best Actor gong by giving audiences an underdog hero you can’t fail to care - and possibly cry - for. Throughout the film you just want to give the lovable lug a hug as he suffers under his own brutal self-loathing and the critiques of his family and friends (“Hey Marty, when you gonna get married? You oughta be ashamed of yourself”). The dialogue is deft and delightful, but it’s the superbly stirring performance of Borgnine that makes the movie such an empathetic masterpiece.

The scene in which Marty’s traditionalist Italian-American mother tries to encourage him to go out to a dancehall and find a girlfriend provides an excellent example of the film’s charm and emotional depth, as well as Borgnine’s heartfelt characterisation. For anyone who’s ever ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #75 &#8211; ENTER THE DRAGON</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Successfully blending Hong Kong martial arts mastery with the groove of early seventies Hollywood action cinema, Enter the Dragon is Bruce Lee’s most famous flick and - pagoda fight sequences in Game of Death aside - the great man’s final feature-length film. Co-production with the West didn’t diminish or dilute Bruce’s raw power and the scene in which Lee as the character Lee (go figure) beats off the flunkies of bad-man Mr Han (Shih Kien) cathartically reminds us just which school of movie-making had the edge when it came to the action.

Investigating the island lair and uncovering an underground opium production plant, our hero ends up staving off the waves of beige-suited henchmen in expected sublime style. The intense facial zooms, measured suspenseful shots, rhythmic flow and striking shrieks from Lee are all present and correct and used to great effect to create one of the most magnificent of the martial artist’s one-man massacres.


It’s the animal magnetism of Bruce Lee that makes him one of the brightest stars ever to grace the screen and the cave clash with Han’s hoods in Enter the Dragon is the perfect example of his indomitable aura, focused ability and dynamic presence. Whether he’s using ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #74 &#8211; THE INNOCENTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Clayton’s 1961 masterpiece The Innocents lasts as one of the most unnerving horror narratives in film history. The story of a governess (played by Deborah Kerr) who goes to a country house to look after two odd children, the film digs beneath the surface of Victorian gentility and conjures up a captivating, spine-chilling ghost story par excellence.


Is there really a malevolent haunting presence in the manor? Are the wicked spirits of the depraved former residents exerting evil influence on the children, or is the repressed Miss Giddens’s imagination fabricating fantasised threats? The suspense and lack of certainty, emphasised in the sound (cutting from that creepy child humming to unbearable silence) and hazy visuals, means we spectators can never be sure. Wound up tighter than piano wire and sucked into the tension, the bleak black-and-white presentation makes it all the more engrossing and anxiety-inducing for the audience.

The scene in which Giddens appears to see a figure at the top of the tower is a prime example of destabilising ambiguity in The Innocents. The way a bug crawls out from the mouth of a cherub statue and disgusts the governess as she goes about pruning roses also puts forward the theme ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #73 &#8211; HIGHLANDER</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1986 fantasy flick Highlander repeats throughout that “there can only be one”. It’s unsurprising therefore that it all muddles down to an epic finale between the two remaining members of the Immortal race to decide that one: the one who claims “The Prize” upon cutting off the other’s head. No viewer phone-ins, coin-tosses or democratic elections to choose here. It’s decision by decapitation (after an epic sword-dual to the death first of course.

Can Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) emerge victorious over The Kurgan (Clancy Brown)? Sparks fly as the two lock in steel-clashing combat upon the roof of Silvercup Studios in New York. The lightning flies and the fearsome nun-frightening Kurgan (who at this point is looking extremely ugly after a haircut) and MacLeod find themselves taking their battle through the ceiling into an open empty space. The blue-tinged silhouette sword fight that follows was undoubtedly lifted by Quentin Tarantino for the House of Blue Leaves massacre in Kill Bill, and the unfolding action in the dark makes for such aesthetically-intriguing sequence in Highlander.
It all makes for a supercharged, pretty spectacular denouement that is certainly memorable. Whether it resounds more in memory than the sight of a bronzed, katana-wielding Sean ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #72 &#8211; HOUSE OF USHER</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Low-budgets don’t matter when you’re backed by the sublime Vincent Price and such solid source material as the writing of Edgar Allan Poe.

Marking the first of eight immensely-lovable, loose film appropriations of the literary legend’s work, 1958’s House of Usher is a typically dramatic delight from Roger “King of the Bs” Corman. A ripping yarn about the cursed Usher family and the haunted mansion in which the family traditionally resides, House of Usher has all the phantasmagorical features you’d expect from this kind of old-school horror. It is also has Vincent Price with blonde hair delivering an intensely powerful performance as the hypersensitive, unhinged Roderick Usher whose enigmatic nature is as central to the story as the oppressive eponymous house.

It’s classic ham and heart-stopping suspense when the fragile and fraught Roderick Usher faces down the incensed inquiries of blue-eyed Philip Winthrop (Mark Damon). I’d be upset as well if I’d journeyed out to the most discomfiting dwelling in the middle of nowhere to find my lover in cataleptic ill-condition that subsequently encourages her barmy brother to inter her alive. Winthrop wants answers and, with a few accompanying uncanny flourishes in the visuals and music, he gets them in full-on thesp ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #71 &#8211; PAN&#8217;S LABYRINTH</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Franco’s Spain meets fairytales in El laberinto del fauno (though Pan’s Labyrinth is the perplexing title for the film’s shipping for the English-language market). Guillermo del Toro’s incredible creation impressively combines heartwarming, hopeful fantasy with surreal horror and brutal period-realism to conjure up a modern masterpiece of cinematic storytelling. Amongst many memorable moments, the sequence featuring the Pale Man is probably the most unforgettable of them all.






As instructed by the Faun of the title, our young heroine Ofelia must complete three tasks before the next full moon in order to prove her essence and take her place as Princess Moanna in the underworld realm. Having successfully surmounted her first challenge (claiming a key from an excellently unpleasant giant toad), Ofelia enters the lair of the odd-looking, child-eating Pale Man to claim an ornate dagger for her second objective.

All is going well, until Ofelia ignores the Faun’s rules and takes two grapes from Pale Man’s plentiful table. The gruesome host - fantastic fleshed out by prince of prosthetics, Doug Jones - subsequently awakens, swallows a couple of Ofelia’s fairy friends and chases the little girl who makes a narrow escape thanks to her magic chalk.

Pale Man’s outlandish appearance with his sagging ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #70 &#8211; Singin’ in the Rain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tap-dancing to the title tune in a rain-sodden street, Gene Kelly takes the plaudits, but the Make ‘Em Laugh number featuring Donald O’Connor is possibly the most impressively physical sequence in Singin’ in the Rain. Totally surrendering his body for the sake of slapstick and song-and-dance showboating, O’Connor as Cosmo Brown busts out a jaw-dropping array of stunts and sight gags.

Amidst the show-stopping scenes that comprise the classic 1952 Hollywood musical, Cosmo’s crazed explosion stands as a nifty oddity that goes all out for comedy instead of dance number perfection and as such offers a light break from the bigger and bolder spectacles. It’s a sequence that delightfully combines the incredible action of silent movies with the audible possibilities of talkies, all played out with enthusiastic gusto by O’Connor.

Though it’s a tribute to optimism and light-hearted outlooks on life, the scene was by no means great fun during filming according to anecdotal reports. The scene was so demanding that O’Connor allegedly had to rest in bed for a week to recover from the strain and stinging carpet burns, only to have to do the whole thing again when the footage was lost in an accident. Cosmo’s pain is our pleasure ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #69 &#8211; DR. STRANGELOVE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1964 Stanley Kubrick released his black comedy masterpiece Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb against the unstable backdrop of the Cold War.

As the whole world was poised on the brink of the destruction, Kubrick’s satire powerfully illustrated the ludicrous nature of the communist East/capitalist West dichotomy and highlighted the imminent apocalyptic potential in an unnervingly funny manner.



That the end of the world can be precipitated by, amongst other things, paranoid generals obsessed with bodily fluids and mad scientists with lustful ideas about future Aryan underground races succeeds on a comic level. At the same time though, the film puts forward scary truths about the fragility of the Earth’s existence in the modern age. The scene where befuddled British RAF man, Captain Lionel Mandrake (just one of Peter Sellers’s numerous roles in the movie) has to deal with Colonel “Bat” Guano, a by-the-book American trooper played by Keenan Wynn, is one of the most inspired examples of insanity in Dr Strangelove.

Mandrake needs to call President Merkin Muffley (Sellers again) to try and divert disaster but runs out of change and impotently insists that Col. Guano break into a Coca Cola vending machine to get ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #68 &#8211; Midnight Express</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To all you travellers currently packing your suitcases in anticipation of a summer expedition: take heed of the Oliver Stone-scribed movie Midnight Express. Directed by Alan Parker and released in 1980, the prison thriller serves as a timely reminder that jetsetters should exert caution when choosing what souvenirs to bring home off holiday.

When American student Billy Hayes - played with perfect intensity and impressive perspiration by Brad Davis - tries to smuggle hashish out of Istanbul airport, the climax of his exotic holiday descends into what will be a living hell. Silly Billy...

It’s inevitable that Billy is going to get caught and end up confined in the cataclysmic culture shock of overseas incarceration, but the sequence leading up to his arrest remains unbearably tense for viewers. The anticipation is amped up by the thudding heartbeat, the communication barriers at every close-call with security and Billy’s sweat-drenched face - altogether making for a nail-biting cliffhanger at customs.

You can view all our Greatest Scenes by clicking HERE. If you find any broken links or wish to request a scene (make sure you leave a paragraph saying why you recommend it), Contact Me and let me know. ]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #67 &#8211; HERO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hero’s narrative unravels in the court of the King of Qin as a nameless assassin recounts his successful spate of murders before the wary royal counters with his own version of events. Boasting esteemed stars of the Asian screen such as Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi and Tony Leung all backed by bold colour-scheme backdrops, each flashback segment is amazing to watch.

It’s possible though that, for martial arts fans at least, the standout scene is the goe-house duel between kung fu legends Jet Li and Donnie Yen, playing the characters of the nameless assassin and Sky respectively.

Zhang Yimou’s sublime direction and sense of style enhances the physical action, and it’s the underlying suspense of the scene that makes it all the more breathtaking. As raindrops drip over the darkly-coloured courtyard and a blind old man plays a traditional tune whilst the combatants visualise the fight in the depths of their minds, it’s clear that this is no knockabout chopsocky. This is martial arts cinema that definitely doesn’t drop the ‘art’ component, and it’s a beautiful marriage of imagination and physical expression performed by two of the genre’s prime actors.

Incredible action choreography, epic tales of mysterious warriors engaging in fantastical duels and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #66 &#8211; MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Appearances can be deceptive, and never has this salient point been so spectacularly illustrated as it was in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Who would suspect a humble white bunny rabbit of being a vicious bloodthirsty beast?

Alas, the Rabbit of Caerbannog (guard of the entrance to the Cave of Caerbannog, home of the Legendary Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh) is, as it turns out, an overwhelming deadly terror whose cute exterior belies its malevolent nature. The sequence where “manky Scotch git” Tim the Enchanter guides King Arthur and his fellow Grail-hunters to the killer critter’s lair ranks amongst the top moments of the legendary comedy troupe’s twisted 1975 retelling of the Arthurian legend.

Spurred on by “a vicious streak a mile wide”, the murderous mammal goes for the jugular and gives us a great bit of lo-fi gore as it hilariously terrifies the questing travellers who fail to heed Tim the Enchanter’s warnings. In the subsequent violent set-piece that follows, it’s clear that Hell hath no fury like this diminutive beast, surely the most inspired and awesome monster never to have been the eponymous star of its own feature-length film (come on: you know you want to see that).

Even though the Holy ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #65 &#8211; M</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 18:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James has now taken over the Greatest Scenes feature, in a hope that it can get back to being a weekly feature. It will probably run every Sunday again but to get us back in the groove, I thought I would put this up today...

To purely remember Peter Lorre as a sinister-looking supporting actor - an unsavoury opposite to Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon, or as the comic bumbler in the 'Triumvirate of Terror' alongside Vincent Price and Boris Karloff - would be doing the man a great disservice. Far from being a one-dimensional pudgy thug, Lorre was an immensely expressive actor who could convey not only scintillating creepiness but considerable character depth as well.



Take his role, perhaps his greatest, in M where plays a whistling child murderer. In this scene, Lorre's Hans Beckert finds himself caight in a warehouse cellar, pleading his case before the vengeful mob that’s baying for his blood...

Are we creeped out or sympaphetic towards Lorre?

Can we really feel empathy for someone who was so unnervingly introduced as a twisted loner preying on innocent youngsters? As the on-trial Beckert mournfully tries to explain his compulsive psychological illness and the assembled vigilante court expose their own hypocrisy and reactionary fervour ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Movie Scenes #64 &#8211; NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Such an uncomfortable scene from No Country for Old Men the best film I saw in 2007, superbly acted from Academy Award winner Javier Bardem and Gene Jones - a memorable cameo from the latter who has a scarce filmography of roles but even if he had supporting parts in a 100 movies he would be lucky to find material as good as this.

I love how Bardem's Chigurh wasn't going to harm the gas station proprietor but he said something that ticked him off and he suddenly changes into the scariest son of a bitch on the planet. I love how this scene just builds and builds whilst Chigurh decides to himself want he wants to do with him whilst the gas station guy slowly comes to the realisation he could be screwed.

He comes up with the first think he could think of to get out of trouble by saying he is closing up and watch Chigurh's quick look at the lock as he tests the gas station guy to see if he lies and gives the wrong time.

Great writing, awesome dialogue. I have no idea how much of it is Cormac McCarthy's writings or the Coens - I'm sure ...]]></description>
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