Harvey Keitel’s head hitting the pillow as "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes kicks in at the beginning of Mean Streets. James Dean’s leather jacket in Rebel Without A Cause. The railway scene in Stand By Me. “We want the finest cakes and wine available to humanity and we want them now!” Creepy John Huston leading Faye Dunaway’s sister/daughter away from her dead body in Chinatown. The impenetrable fog that gives Al Pacino such problems in Insomnia. The rear-view shot of Scarlett Johansen walking through the Tokyo streets at the end of Lost In Translation. Phil Daniels and the rest of the mods riding their Lambrettas down to Brighton in Quadrophenia. Charles Bronson’s harmonica in Once Upon A Time In The West. “Can I buy any of you cunts a drink?” Barbara Stanwyck’s anklet in Double Indemnity. The opening monologue of the undertaker Bonasera as the camera slowly zooms out over Marlon Brando’s shoulder in The Godfather. Woody Allen taking direction from imaginary Humphrey Bogart in an attempt to woo Diane Keaton in Play It Again, Sam. Liam Neeson’s breakdown as he contemplates how many more lives he could have saved in Schindler’s List. The stark gritty blue colourising Jason Patric’s pursuit of a drug dealer through an inner-city neighbourhood in Narc. The unbroken tracking shot across Dunkirk beach in Atonement. Will Ferrell’s moustache in Anchorman. De Niro raging as Al Capone in The Untouchables. The way Joe Pesci says “Muddafucka” in everything he’s in. “Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?” Gaunt Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter. Manic Dennis Hopper in Speed. The heartbreak in Michelle Monaghan’s eyes as Casey Affleck shops Morgan Freeman to the cops in Gone Baby Gone. Christoph Waltz’s friendly menace in the opening scene of Inglourious Basterds. The Statue of Liberty’s head flying through the air in Cloverfield. Kevin Spacey singing American Woman in American Beauty. Anthony Hopkins beating the prison guards to death in The Silence Of The Lambs. Karl Malden’s nose. The mirror scene in Duck Soup. The gap between the apartment buildings in Rear Window. Any shot from Terrence Malick's The Tree Of Life. Cathy Moriarty’s husky voice in Raging Bull. Harrison Ford racing towards the plane while being pursued by the tribesmen in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Tony Curtis’s leg rising in the background while Marilyn Monroe kisses him in the foreground in Some Like It Hot. ET hiding in the stuffed animals. Orson Welles’s ad-libbed cuckoo clock line in The Third Man. The smoky saxophone in Bernard Herrman’s Taxi Driver theme. Charlie Chaplin’s pathos in Modern Times. Mark Hamill clinging to the antenna underneath the floating city in The Empire Strikes Back. Gollum’s conversation with himself in The Two Towers – the moment CGI became performance. THAT coffee-shop scene between De Niro and Pacino in Heat. The wedding rehearsal sequence in Kill Bill Vol.2. The tree in The Shawshank Redemption. The rain in Se7en. The floating hut in Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...And Spring Again. Mickey Rourke trying to reconnect with Evan Rachel Wood in The Wrestler. Proto-metal Johnny B. Goode performed by Michael J. Fox in Back To The Future. The prison food in Goodfellas. Paris folding in on itself in Inception. Johnny Depp running verbal rings around the two guards in Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl. Jim Carrey stepping through the door of the fake world into the real world at the end of The Truman Show.
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