This is the final scene of the movie so it’s a huge spoiler alert. If you think you will ever stumble across this film on your own then don’t watch the scene however if you think you will never see it, read no further and watch it the clip. It’s haunting beauty might just convince you to give it a go.

Death in Venice, one of Luchino Visconti’s greatest films. The best scene of the movie is the one below as a dying German composer played by Dick Bogarde watches what he believes is the a thing of beauty, an innocent faced young boy in the Venice sea pointing towards the great abyss of the ocean.

The heat beams down on Bogarde, his face almost melts at the beauty, his face goes ghastly white and his heart can’t take such a sublime image, you almost believe he can hear the film’s emotional score on that lonesome beach.

A really complicated movie from Visconti which I believe is far more about aging than sexual obsession, although there is certainly an undercurrent of that the film is much more about time… it’s effect on our perceptions of beauty and even our own mortality.

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I must have watched this movie about a hundred times when I studied it at University but it’s a testament to one of John Ford’s greatest Westerns that I can return to it once every year and really take a lot from it.

My Darling Clementine starring the great Henry Fonda is the best film about the legend of Wyatt Earp but it’s not so much interested in the events of what went down at the O.K. Coral (which is almost treated as a last minute after thought) it’s much more interested in the relationships of it’s four central characters, specifically I think Doc. Holliday played superbly by the often criticised Victor Mature.

In this magnificent scene a hammy Shakespeare actor attempts to bring some art and respectability to the town but it’s not going down well with the locals.

Where the scene truly has it’s power is Doc. Holliday knows he is rapidly dying from TB and the actor’s rendition of Hamlet mirrors Holliday’s cowardice in his inability to deal with his own fate and that of becoming a drunken, bitter fool. When he finishes off the actor’s lines, he coughs at the last moment - a moment of supreme power.

“Shakespeare was not meant for taverns nor for tavern louts.” - He was so right but oddly it works so well here.

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It’s back, the most requested and well loved feature I think I’ve cooked up for this site so far has been the subject of oddly frequent requests from our readers. So here it is, I’ve resurrected it and it’s going to run THREE times weekly until our numbering has caught up to the weeks we have missed (the article previously ran every Sunday since the site’s inception).

Rudolph Mate’s D.O.A, the quintessential film noir has a great opening scene which doesn’t waste time with character development or any unnecessary fat. This opening is almost something out of a much more modern day movie, a two line concept if you will but it’s excellently executed here and it’s far from just a gimmick.

The film opens with a great tracking shot of Edmund O’Brien as we follow his frantic movements into the police chief’s office and his great revelation which kick-starts a movie that for it’s time quite literally never slows down.

D.O.A. is a superb movie and it’s been in the public domain for quite some time so you can easily and quite accessibly watch it online for free. It’s well worth getting your hands on…

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As requested by Gregg, this week’s great movie scene comes from the really cool Lost in Translation movie from Sofia Coppola, which is a film I’m sure attracted many from the Western world over to Tokyo for a vacation.

This scene was just made for Bill Murray. I don’t know if it was written specifically for him but this is the kind of material that he wasn’t getting to work with for some reason after Groundhog Day but it’s the stuff that he strives on. I swear he could make me laugh like a girl all day if he were ever to do just a silent movie, his facial acting (if there is such a word) is incredible.

And for those who have always wondered, this is apparently one of the long monologues that comes from the commercial director in the movie…

DIRECTOR: Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut! (Then in a very male form of Japanese, like a father speaking to a wayward child) Don’t try to fool me. Don’t pretend you don’t understand. Do you even understand what we are trying to do? Suntory is very exclusive. The sound of the words is important. It’s an expensive drink. This is No. 1. Now do it again, and you have to feel that this is exclusive. O.K.? This is not an everyday whiskey you know.

Great stuff…

Boy, have we got a great movie scene for you today although I will admit it does work better in the context of the film Odd Man Out than it does on it’s own but it’s still great and really deserves it’s place on this list.

First a little build up to this scene. James Mason plays a IRA terrorist who has been shot whilst carrying out a bank robbery and is left as the odd man out when his co-thiefs leave him. The film shows Mason as he struggles to survive walking the streets of Belfast mortally wounded, whilst he bumps into ordinary members of the public who all want to help him until they recognize who he is and then they want nothing to do with him.

They then all want him for their own personal gain.

One of which is a rather mad painter, who is unhappy with the art he produces as he so desperately wants to paint a guy on the verge of death. What does a man see when he is dying? What does he look like? That’s the image he wants, and the countless paintings of dead people aren’t enough for him because he just can’t capture that special moment.

Until Mason comes along and now is his chance. This scene shows him at what we think is ‘the moment of dying’ as the past paintings, the ghosts of the people already dead come and haunt him. Throughout the film Johnny is being judged, but not quite as much as he is now by the ghosts and the priests and his great speech about the charity that has been rejected to him is conveyed in this great quote…

What was that you used to tell us? “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”‘

Big spoilers in this week’s great movie scene, so if you haven’t seen Planet of the Apes or you don’t know about it’s famous ending then I would advise you not to watch the footage below. Go out and buy yourself a copy of one of the truly great sci-fi classics of all time. Really, you should be ashamed of yourself if you haven’t seen this!

Does Planet of the Apes have a more horrific ending than The Wicker Man? I think so. It really leaves you feeling cold and I remember the first time I saw this movie, the ending effected me for quite some time.

It’s not the least bit comforting and the way Franklin J. Schaffner builds up to it is superb. I love the way he builds to it from above, as if we are God looking down on Charlton Heston, for being so adamant about man and their strength and civility compared to Apes.

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A disturbing scene to showcase this week for our greatest movie scene feature as Dennis Hopper is Frank Booth, possibly the meanest and most sexually repulsive villain in film history. I haven’t seen David Lynchs’ classically perverse drama for a few years now but my biggest memory of the movie is this scene where Frank uses Dorothy (Isabella Rosellini) as his sex slave and remarkably she seems to enjoy it.

That is probably the most disturbing aspect of the scene is that she enjoys playing the victim or the ‘mommy’ to Frank’s master role or ‘the daddy’. This scene bring up all kinds of questions about human sexual nature and the oedipal complex as well as what it means to be a voyeur and the exploration of our deepest sexual desires.

I really don’t think anyone could be more frightening as Frank than the way Dennis Hopper plays him. Just be warned if you are watching this clip from the film for the first time you may find it a little disturbing…

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As requested by Dave, this week’s greatest movie scene comes from Alien, a movie which changed our whole perception of what the science fiction genre could be when it opened at the back end of the 1970’s. Director Ridley Scott was the first storyteller to showcase real characters as passengers on a space ship, I believe this is the first movie that portrayed being part of a crew as just a job.

The characters aren’t members of the Starship Enterprise. These are the first working class passengers in space, and it made for some original viewing that allowed us to sympathise much more with these characters than we could with the Star Trek or even Star Wars crew.

This scene is just one of the many great one’s in the film. It’s the dinner scene, which I believe has been tagged ‘the last supper’ and it’s one of those that hit it note perfect. It works because it’s so tense that ya know something terrible is going to happen because of the direction of Scott but you can’t quite work out what it is and then when it arrives, your totally shocked.

Still gets me everytime. I always think it’s the great Ian Holm that makes this damn scene near the end. Such intense looks, such fear in his eyes.

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A special edition of the Greatest Movie Scenes today (this might be next Sunday’s, just posted now). Ironically, I actually had this scene planned to post with The Seventh Seal currently re-running in U.K. cinema’s but then came that Spock casting so I decided to go with Star Trek for last week instead, so originally I pushed this back a week to next Sunday.

If your wondering what the chess reference is above in regards to the great Ingmar Bergman who has sadly passed away, then you are truly in need of some film education. I guess this is what this feature is for, to educate those who haven’t seen the movies as to how great a certain scene is or for those who have seen it, to give their two cents.

The Seventh Seal for my money is Bergman’s best film. It’s certainly his most famous. Possibly because of it’s incredible opening scene depicting a knight’s quest to save his life by challenging death to a game of chess. The scene has often been parodied and homaged through the years, most famously by Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey in 1991 where they challenged death to games of Twister, Battleship and Clue!

I love this following scene, it says so much about life which truly is just one big chess game. We are constantly fighting the Grim Reaper everyday of our lives but at some point we will hit checkmate. It’s a chess game we are all destined to lose, it’s just a matter of how smartly we can move our pieces and protect our King until it’s too late.

So, this week we found ourselves a new Spock for J.J. Abrams’ re-boot of the Star Trek franchise and the response from people has been very quiet indeed. Not many people outside the Star Trek fanbase seem to care at this point and even those who are fans of the show don’t seem to have much to say on it.

Is it because we don’t really know the guy who’s playing him? That is probably it. Gonna be real interesting to see who they get to play Kirk. The chemistry between the two actors could make or break this film.

This week’s great movie scene had to be from Star Trek and what else could it be than the awesome scene near the end of possibly the best Star Trek film… The Wrath of Khan. BIG, BIG, BIG SPOILERS IF YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS FILM BEFORE…

A great emotional scene involving the death of Spock which was so well handled by director Nicholas Meyer and smartly acted by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. It’s not over the top, it’s not to sentimental and it’s not too cheesy… it’s just note perfect. This is the sort of death that Shatner should have received at the end of Generations but hopefully with the new reboot film, they will give him some sort of small cameo which will be a fitting end to his incredible Star Trek legacy.