Great Cinema - Short Clips

[aarnold517]

The ending to possibly my favorite movie, "The Usual Suspects," where we find out who Keyser Soze really is! NOTE: Spoiler Alert if you've never seen it before:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_6560AW1zQ

 

[lactictac]

I always think "Kaiser," as in Caesar - the same name.

Good one.

 

[lactictac]

Badges?

From "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre." The great Humphrey Bogart and Alfonso Bedoya in a scene with a famous quote, usually misquoted:


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


Enjoy!

 

[lactictac]

"Cat People" (1942).

Scary - no monsters, no CGI, no blood splats. Just some shadows and atmosphere:


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


Enjoy!

 

[lactictac]

"Cool Hand Luke," a short but famous scene:


http://www.myspace.com/video/mike/cool-hand-luke-1967-failure-to-communicate/6798974


Enjoy!

 

[lactictac]

OK, time to honor the female warrior.

"Sideways" - two guys on a wine/road trip before the "handsome" one gets married. But instead of relaxing, he starts a relationship with Stephanie, played by Sandra Oh. In this scene, at about 1:40, she confronts him with the truth ... "confronts" being an understatement:


http://www.metacafe.com/watch/mv-ceZLy/stephanie_attacks_jack/


Enjoy!

 

[lactictac]

The female warrior again:

Not "The Hunger Games." This is from "Battle Royale" (2000), long before THG. People argue that THG is/is not a rip-off of BR. There are distinct similarities.

Here is a violent scene ... be warned ... the poor boy messes with the wrong girl. Proceed with caution:


http://battleroyaleinfo.blogspot.com/2012/04/crakin-scene-from-battle-royale.html


Enjoy!

 

[Angliru]

On your mention of violence,

The end-scene of The Last of The Mohicans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp957uI31SA&feature=related

One of my all-time favorites. The music is the perfect compliment. Great choice!

 

[Zam_Olyas]

in italy for 30 yrs under the borgias. there was warfare,terror,bloodshed murder
but it produced michaelangelo,da vinci and the renaisance
in switzerland they had brotherly love and 500 yrs of democracy and peace
and what did that produce?
the cuckoo clock

Orson welles in The Third Man

if you want ff to 5:27

 

[ustabe]

That's one of my favorite scenes, too, even if it's historically inaccurate. From one of my favorite movies.

 

[lactictac]

A great scene!

 

[Zam_Olyas]

The dingos got my baby

 

[lactictac]

A woman warrior once more. This time, a musical warrior in “Diva” (1981) – a “new new wave” crime thriller/mystery romance about an opera singer who refuses to record, interlaced with a murdered corruption whistle-blower.

The film is a visual treat … and a sonic one. Here, in the opening, the singer gives a live performance that is surreptitiously recorded by a devout fan. Note the simple elegance of the singer and her surroundings, her lovely voice and choice of aria, and the tension subtly created by the panning camera – a Hitchcockian homage: Easily spot some bad guys at about 1:05 and 2:40 … and oh, that music:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hsmoo97CVA


Enjoy!

 

[El Imbatido]

A few short films from a great filmmaker who i recently had the privilege of meeting: Tropfest winner Jason van Genderen Link to his site

Mankind is no island - Tropfest 2008 winner...shot entirely on cell phone

Design Crimes - Tropfest finalist - Mockumentary on policing 'design crimes'

Pearls - Film shot from the perspective of the homeless on the streets on Sydney and also in the states...maybe NY i think

But really good guy to meet, he has basically been labelled a 'pocket Filmmaker' for his sucesses shooting on cell phones and iphones etc

 

[lactictac]

Beauty and the beast? The things we do for love?

T'was the beast that killed the beasts ... "King Kong" (2005) and Kong fighting 3 T-rexes to protect Ann Darrow ( Naomi Watts):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?annota...ture=iv&list=PL58CB3919A89D4665&v=ZYZsJYZVt5g


Enjoy!

 

[lactictac]

Impact tremors. More monsters ... T-rexes used to walk this earth! They are not fiction. Here in "Jurassic Park," one rears it toothy head ... closer than it appears:


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7mvm9_jurassic-park-closer-than-they-appe_shortfilms


Enjoy!

 

[lactictac]

More beasts – this time from “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” (1992).

Gary Oldman is magnificent as Dracula and his performance is fortified by the wooden Keanu Reeves, whose laughable performance shows just how fine Oldman is.

The lighting and shadows in Coppola’s film are extraordinary, as the nightmare deepens in this scene, which I dub The Shaving Cut - "What sweet music ...":


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j6b4Cd3OZo


Enjoy!

 

[lactictac]

Another beast - a real, natural beast, a jaguar. Or, as a Mayan in "Apocalypto" would say... balam.

A warrior/hunter temporarily escapes his captors by climbing a tree. He is on a branch with ... a baby jaguar. Guess who is nearby ... the parent.

The grown balam chases the warrior, as his adversaries chase him too. Luckily for our warrior, one of his chasers is intercepted by the jaguar. Be warned, jaguars have powerful jaws and kill by biting the head, hoping to pierce the skull or find an eye socket. Here, the jaguar rips the man's face:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MbMbJp3vNU


Enjoy!

 

[goggalor]

The Goy's teeth story from A Serious Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUTyEEiulQk

Love it!

 

[lactictac]

A funny chase scene - from "Raising Arizona," one of the better films from the Coen Brothers. Look at those camera angles, and the dogs:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3-Y6UdDNWU


Enjoy!

 

[goggalor]

I'm gonna go ahead and repost this, since my last post apparently vanished into thin air (surely a mod wouldn't delete a post with no notice, based on the whims of a thread starter? -- I mean, this is a public forum, right, not someone's personal film blog?)

This scene is from A Serious Man, superb storytelling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUTyEEiulQk

One of the cleverest Coen brothers films, definitely worth watching.

Here's part of the costume shop scene from Eyes Wide shut, couldn't find the whole scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDKiyehma28

Fantastic film, very creepy at times, shame Kubrick didn't get to make any more.

 

[lactictac]

More chasing, but cars this time. "Bullitt" with Steve McQueen. Peter Yates sets the standard for car chases in this film. Watch for the green Volkswagen Beetle that appears frequently during the chase:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4mLNnxZM38


Enjoy!

 

[Fowsto Cope-E]

Pulp Fiction has so many great scenes it:

*DISCLAIMER*: Loads of inappropriate language and violence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6csp2fZt2E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBBni_-tMNs&feature=fvwrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihH_-O7ev2o&feature=related

 

[lactictac]

More chase. This time a bicycle chasing a truck ... at 60 mph in the slipstream. "Breaking Away." And, check out the shot at 1:35 - he's in the small chain ring, haha!. Still, captivating:


http://www.metacafe.com/watch/mv-yXM8/chasing_a_truck/


Enjoy!

 

[El Imbatido]

The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon

Do it.....it is awesome