Thursday 18 January 2024

Best Bits

Atonement - the single take on the beach.

The Red Shoes ballet.

The black / white bit in Marienbad.

Janet Leigh's face while driving in Psycho.

Emma Chambers' break-up in Notting Hill.

Scene where general bawls out Hoppy and Blimp at club.

Out of Sight hotel sequence.

Doctor in As Good As It Gets

Michael Palin's sergeant (Meaning of Life)

Single take in Children of Men (the first one).

Jennifer Jones emerging from the waves in green - Portrait of Jennie.

Autumn leaves turning blood red in Hero.

Eugene Pallette banging breakfast trays together – The Lady Eve.

Drinks trolley – Love in the Afternoon.

Hannah and her Sisters – Michael Caine’s voice over being cool, then he leaps onto Barbara Hershey.

Vertigo – scene where Kim lights up.

Brief Encounter – where he says ‘Thursday?’ and she doesn’t answer.

The relief you get in O Lucky Man when we see the familiar blue motorway sign for ‘M1 and the South’.

Harpo and Chico looking like dogs in Duck Soup.

Deathly Hallows Ben Hibon animation.

Car falling from sky in Eternal Sunshine.

The Descendants - on the sofa.

Palm Beach Story - Colbert stepping on Rudy Vallee's glasses and he says 'There'. And Colbert's speech about 'The Look'.

Very end of Touch of Evil 'What does it matter what you say about anybody?'

Very end of Aloha (Hawaiian dance, daughter).

Hospital scene in GF1.

Jenny Agutter.

Jet hijacking in Thunderball.

Alec Guinness using cakes to explain situation in The Quiller Memorandum.

The last three minutes of the last episode of the last season of Six Feet Under.

Peter and June meeting by radio in AMOLAD.

Daisy Miller - the way Cybill Shepherd's carriage speeds away from the Coliseum (it's the last time we see her, I think). 

The opening of Oliver Twist (David Lean's version, obviously).

The way Victoria Boydell edits Jacob Verbruggen's revolving cameras in London Spy.

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