Scenes that stay with you

See also NUMEROUS scenes from ILFavourite Wisconsin Death Trip.

See also Songs From The Second Floor.

AND

The lodger's footsteps through a glass ceiling in The Lodger.

Dean Stockwell singing into a lamp in Blue Velvet.

Orson Welles platning evidence in Touch Of Evil.

Kasper misunderstanding perspective in The Enigma Of Kasper Hauser.

More Herzog: The last scene of Aguirre:Wrath Of God.

The house falling onto the dirt road in My own Private Idaho.

The world slowly disappearing in The Nine Lives Of Thomas Katz.

The guy lighting matches in Desistfilm.

I guess these are all pretty revealing of my tastes. Yeah, I'm a one-note bore.

Jem Cohen's "Lost Book Found"--the payphones with "pray" scratched into them; the handwritten signs; the montage of shots corresponding to entry titles in the book.

Harmony Korine's "julian donkey-boy"--dad spraying brother with the hose ("be a man, be a winner")

David Lynch's "Eraserhead"--the deformed baby

"Pet Semetary"--haven't seen this one since i was about nine years old, but the twisted spine spitting out her meal of baby food--scared the hell out of me & still sticks in my mind.

Bergman's "Cries and Whispers"--the screaming session(s)

Bergman's "Persona"--the opening avant-garde montage; the scene where bibi anderson is talking about having anonymous sex on a beach & getting pregnant; stepping on glass; the ghost through the room

P.T. Anderson's "magnolia"--professing love to the bartender; the rain of frogs (of course)

leighton pierce's "wood"--the saw blade through the smoke fumes

"Un Chien Andalou"--the eye cutting; ants through hand

"Belle de Jour"--head ringing bell

so many more...jodorowsky comes to mind, "begotten", etc. but i'll stop.

Darkness, Light, Darkness. The whole thing.

Also...
The end of Raging Bull
Joseph Pilato getting ripped in half in Day of the Dead
The beginning of Blue Velvet
The last 20 mins. or so of Brazil

Shelley Winters' body discovered underwater in Night Of The Hunter.
The circus freaks on the rampage in a thunderstorm at the end of Freaks.
The wicked witch's feet sticking out from under the house in The Wizard Of Oz.
The maid levitating in Teorama (better than it sounds honest).
The disabled boy rocking back and forth, hypnotised by the poster of an American bodybuilder he's been given in A Time For Drunken Horses.

can't believe i forgot to add this one--

John Water's "Pink Flamingos"--the orgy with the chicken, the sausage flasher, and of course, the singing anus.

i saw this documentary called "silverlake life"... i don't want to spoil it for anyone but there is one scene that i will never forget in my entire life.

great film, but certainly not for the weak of heart.

What happened??????

So... someone on ILF knows personally someone on the crew of Wisconsin Death Trip, right?

"Stay with you" implies that given scenes' spell has been longer than any other, I guess.

That in mind, one of my earliest viewing experience was Poltergeist and I still am haunted by the shot of JoBeth Williams barrelling down a hallway as it stretches out in front of her.

eric- yes, that's what i was getting at.

the scene I started was from a movie I had just watched so I may forget it but it made me think of the question.

These are from pretty recent films...

When the 'singing' woman in Mulholland Drive collapses.
The "Mad World" montage in Donnie Darko.
The floating away at the end of Waking Life.

The scene in Fitzcarraldo where Klaus is standing on the river boat when he hears natives playing drums playing in the forest. Fearing that he is about to be attacked, Fitz sets up the Victrola on deck to play Caruso to the forest. Caruso plays, along with the drums in the forest, and you see a profile shot of Fitz and the lush green forest scrolling by. Absolutely one of the most beautiful moments I have ever seen captured on film and the reason I love film today.

The flashback scene in 8 1/2 which explains why Guido was thinking Asa Nisi Masa while the guy was trying to read his mind

The scene in the Tin Drum where Oskar is sitting beneath the bleachers of the Nazi rally. He starts playing his drum and changes the cadence of the Nazi band, causing the whole group to descend into chaos.

The scene in Andrei Rublev where the nude pagens are running through the forest.

The scene in Wings of Desire where Nick Cave is performing.

Peter Lorre's speech at the end of Fritz Lang's M.

Jessy's song and dance number in Greaser's Palace

A dozen different scenes in Yi Yi. Take your pick.

Every time I listen to Arctic Bar by Meredith Monk I remember the first murder scene from Cure... I used to like that track, dammit.

Ashamedly, the scene in Castaway where the anthropomorphic basketball drops off the raft and sails away. Heartbreaking. Shameless.

Oh, okay, how about when Matuschek tries to kill himself in The Shop Around the Corner, and (honestly) the final moments of The Iron Giant. I'm a big softie.

...and, for some reason, anything in which Burt Lancaster does acrobatics.

i wouldn't be ashamed about Castaway--it's a great movie, and getting better with age.

the final scenes of Gallipoli, which i saw just a few days ago, have really stuck with me.

the two suicides in House of Sand and Fog.

m - peter lorre defends himself in front of the mob.

rashomon - the rain scenes.

falstaff - "i know thee not, old man."

young mr lincoln - the final shot, as henry fonda walks away into the thunderstorm. utterly chilling.

lolita - any of the scenes with peter sellers.

band of outsiders - the "moment of silence."

the royal tenenbaums - margot and richie in the tent.

notorious - claude rains walking back into the house at the end.

Cries and Whispers where the elder sister smears blood from you know where on her lips.

Mulholland Drive when the eyebrows guy goes to the back of the diner to see if the Horrible Man is there. Also when Naomi Watts is masturbating and the camera goes all fuzzy plus major sound distortion.

Ran where Lady Kaede gets separated from her head.

Spirited Away when Chihiro and No Face are alone on the train.

Red's freeze frame end.

Fast Times At Ridgemont High - Pheobe Cates emerging from the pool

The (very long)Party Scene in L'eau Froide-Oliver Assays.
Almost any murder scene in Argento's gialli.
Truffaut's "Jules and Jim" suicide scene.
.....

Dave in 2001: my god it's full of stars

Tom Cruise walking in to find his mask on his pillow in Eyes Wide Shut

Sarah Polley silhouetted against the curtains at the end of The Sweet Hereafter

the chicken dancing in Stroszek

The Flight of the Valkyries scene in Apocaplypse Now.

The sword fight in the House of Blue Leaves from Kill Bill vol 1.

The bank robbery scene from Heat.

The final battle scene from Excalibur.

The helicopter scene from Vertical Limit.

The sniper rescue scene from Black Hawk Down.

The opening battle scenes from Saving Private Ryan and Gladiator.

Every scene with Andre the Giant from The Princess Bride.

The final 20 minutes of Brazil (ok I saw someone else write this).

The Cave Troll scene from Fellowship of the Ring.

John Goodman's eulogy for Steve Buscemi in The Big Lebowski.

The 1st time the sheep march in perfect formation in Babe.

The naked children escaping the massacre in The Mission.

Every scene with Bill Paxton in it from Aliens.

Patton, from start to finish.

The "see no evil-hear no evil-speak no evil" scene from Planet of the Apes (the original, NOT the Marky-Mark sequel).

The restaurant assassination scene from The Godfather.

That's enough for now.

Mookie. Trash can. Window.

Al Pacino hustling Jonathan Pryce in Glengarry Glen Ross. "My balls were like concrete."

Te near conclusion of Boogie Nights. The tracking shot that follows Burt Reynolds as he checks up on his surrogate porn family and the slight sound of recgonition he lets out upon passing the painted portrait of the deceased William H. Macy.
The part in Taste of Cherry when the suicidal protagonist watches pounds of dirt being poured onto his long shadow at the construction site.
I'm embarrassed too have mentioned far too often, but I mention it because I saw it again recently and was pleasently surprised by the happiness it brought me, Davy Jones and Tony Basil's song and dance in the Daddy's Song musical number in Head.

I still haven't seen "Head" and I have no idea why...Somebody ask me next week if I've rented it yet, and if I haven't, don't let me post anything. I need displine, damnit! Films take priority over work/girlfriend/social life/making my own films/feeding my cats/etc.!

oh, another one: the scene in Brakhage's "Kindering" where the little boy is standing over the little girl lying on the ground & play-acting whipping at her with a branch with the bizarre over-modulated children's voice singing in the background and the kaleidoscoping lens--amazing scene.