Great Cinema - Short Clips

[bladerunner]

From Steve Martin's Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4aEJ_6TNZQ

 

[bladerunner]

Can't wait to see Prometheus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9jRaa4Wkbk

 

[lactictac]

"Prometheus" looks great - but what trailer for a Ridley Scott film does not? ) It's on my list for sure.

Thanks.

 

[lactictac]

"Once Upon a Time in the West" - Sergio Leone's masterpiece. Each of the 4 main characters has its own theme.

Here is Jill's theme - she (played by Cladia Cardinale) arrives by train from New Orleans and no one meets her - they have all been murdered. She waits a while ... and then, as her theme begins, and inspired by a watch and a clock, she ... she gives birth to herself, as the camera sores over the rooftop to reveal the burgeoning town and Jill's first steps to becoming ... MOTHER OF THE WEST ... and gloriously melancholy music by Ennio Morricone.

Watch how the camera grows wings and soars along with the music, with Jill's journey - the rooftop shot @ about 3:00 is pure and grand cinema. And listen!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5wEVaSUpZs&feature=related


Enjoy!

 

[lactictac]

A MUST SEE!

I admit it - "Once Upon a Time" holds special places in my heart and mind.

Here is Jill's theme done 35 years later, live in Cortona Italy city square, with Andre Rieu and Carla Maffioletti. Notice how everything, everything is stunning - the musicians, the clothing, the jewelry, the sets, the music stands, the lighting, the camera, the performances (Maffiolett!!!!!), the camera. The music!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzmfvRbSPuU


Enjoy!

 

[bladerunner]

From Ice Cold in Alex :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouYKeeTz7Yw

Don't think anyone has mentioned Cinema Paradiso yet :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WQLdZ7d9Lc

And a bit of Hitchcock's Rear Window :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re5jTn8Cv4M

 

[lactictac]

blade, Nice. Great films! Thanks.

BTW - I saw "Sorcerer" the other day. Fine film and Roy is excellent. I didn't know that it is a remake of "Wages of Fear." Thanks again.

 

[lactictac]

"The Lady From Shanghai" - Orson Welles.

The famous house of glass scene in the amusement park:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G05H0QacqQM


Enjoy!

 

[nvpacchi]

The Godfather Baptism Montage

My alltime favorite film scene. (I also think the priest is the same one used for the first communion scene in Part II.)

Blazing Saddles Slapstick

Count Basie inclusion cannot be topped

 

[lactictac]

The Brits again! ) This time via Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun."

A young Christian Bale gives a nice performance, in this scene enamored by the "P-51 Mustang. Cadillac of the Sky!":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tztl6ZEjrw4


Enjoy!

 

[lactictac]

And again, a Brit, this time Gary Oldman.

"Leon: The Professional," Luc Besson's new slant on the action film genre, with Oldman playing a cocaine-addled cop. In this scene we sample some insanity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyfbRz4ObFY


Enjoy ... EVERYONE!

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Parts of Empire of the Sun are just astounding. And other parts...not much so.

The Prometheus trailer looks too clean to me, too slick. The Alien universe I remember was incredibly inhospitable, just gritty, nasty, desolate. Not just the planet, even the Nostromo was like this.

This new movie looks more like Avatar.

 

[bladerunner]

From Luc Besson's Nikita :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWtrSx__Lf0

 

[lactictac]

"Crying," by Roy Orbison, with k.d. lang.

I know it's not technically cinema, but it is filmed wonderfully in B+W. The tune is stunningly human, the lyrics movingly simple and the two performances ... perfect. Their voices seem almost to blend together, overlap and become the same at times. Roy plays an understated guitar and k.d.'s body "lang"-uage adds her own sense of grief to this nugget of gold, one of the best duets in pop music, imho:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-EiKPrAOHA


Enjoy!

 

[lactictac]

"Bond. James Bond." "Casino Royale."

Sean Connery is replaced with Daniel Craig.

"Vodka martini, shaken not stirred" is replaced with this, a Vesper martini (pardon the cut to Bond's comment on the drink):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc7n7yyXWsU


Enjoy! (And remember, one is not enough, three is too many!)

 

[MarkvW]

Couldn't find my favorite clip: The scene in Lawrence of Arabia when Lawrence gets to the Suez Canal. First time I saw it, it blew me away.

 

[Boeing]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJkHm2WtSsk&feature=related

Slap shot Hanson Bros Debut

 

[lactictac]

"Slap Shot" - hahahahahahahahahahahaahahaaaaa! Fine film and those Hanson Brothers .... Hard to believe it's 35 years old. Thanks.

 

[lactictac]

"Children of Men" - no one is being born. There are no pregnancies, no children. For 18 years! But here, in a firefight, in a decayed, battle-ridden building, a child is born. The sound of the child's cries brings a strange calm over civilians, soldiers ... and a temporary cease-fire ensues. Very temporary. Almost religious:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBzWTIexszQ


Enjoy!

 

[lactictac]

Comic interlude:

Conan? The Barbarian?? Haha, yes. This quote by the bad acting Schwarzenegger is hilarious. Yikes, he was a US governor, go figure:


"What is best in life?"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PQ6335puOc


Enjoy!

 

[lactictac]

One more funny short form "The Protector," staring Tony Jaa, an expert in Muay Thai and a super athlete. Here he kicks a knife from a hand and then kicks out an overhead street light. Wow!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_qmpMSxSFg


Enjoy!

 

[lactictac]

Back to music in film.

"The Graduate," with "The Sound of Silence":


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLEmyeQlS5M


Stunningly prophetic.

Enjoy!

 

[lactictac]

Music - maybe the world's best known march tune from a great film:

"The Bridge on the River Kwai":


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83bmsluWHZc


Enjoy!

 

[lactictac]

Comedy - Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, "The Pink Panther Strikes Again":

"Does your dog bite?":


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXn2QVipK2o


Enjoy!

 

[lactictac]

"Ben-Hur" (1959), the chariot race - one of the most monumental scenes in cinema. The camera work, the editing ... brilliant:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwi3xROzpSE


Enjoy!