Memento, where the lead character comes to while running through a residential neighborhood. "So I'm chasing this guy." The guy shoots at him. "No: he's chasing me."
Pecker, the party scene at the end where the boy-wonder photographer, having turned down the Whitney Art Museum, is bartering his work in his hometown of Baltimore - a photograph of a New York art snob in exchange for a year's free birthday cakes for his family. This in the midst of utter depravity that makes everybody very happy.
Two bits from The Twelve Chairs: 1) where the old aristocrat and the young con artist have infiltrated a little theatre company to gain access to six of the chairs that contain the family treasure. He's finagled his way into the lead role in the play, and on his first entrance, he's so bewildered by the applause and the stage fright that he simply walks right offstage again, staring blankly at the audience. 2) At the end, where, after many trials and tribulations, they devour the feast at the dedication of the workers' recreation center, only to discover that it was built with the treasure the workers found in one of the chairs.
Bullets Over Broadway, where the young playwright finally accepts the gangster bodyguard as a writing partner - particularly where he talks about "taking pages over to Cheech to read."
Bananas - a mediocre movie on second viewing, but I still like the scene where Fielding Mellish solves the problem of feeding the guerrillas by going to the nearest diner and ordering takeout including <Hispanic accent>"tuna fish for three hundred men."</accent>
The Mission, where the priest is sitting by the stream playing the recorder, and a few local tribesmen sneak up on him quietly, just to listen. Voice-over: "With an orchestra we could have conquered the country."
Seabiscuit: the race shots where you can hear Seabiscuit growling! I've never heard a horse growl before!
A Hard Day's Night - just about anytime where Paul's grandfather (Wilfred Brambell) is referred to as "a clean old man."
That's Entertainment, Too (?), the section on dance in the movies, where they actually show Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in some head-to-foot shots. His feet were as nimble as hands!
And speaking of The Princess Bride: When Inigo Montoya finally gets to utter the line, "Hello: My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die," and the villain is at last pleading for his life, promising, "I'll give you anything you want!" Inigo answers: "I want my father back, you son of a b*tch!"
There's more, but that's enough for now.
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