Can you name the Roger Ebert's 100 Great Moments in the Movies?

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  • Source: Roger Ebert´s Journal
  • In 1995, to celebrate the "centennial of cinema", Roger Ebert selected 100 of his favorite movie moments. Identify the films, except as specified in clues with underlined sections.
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'Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet!' The first words heard in the first talkie, said by Al Jolson.
'I'm walkin' here!' Dustin Hoffman
'Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.' Katharine Hepburn to Humphrey Bogart
'What have you done to its eyes?' Dialogue by Mia Farrow
'Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!' Alfonso Bedoya to Humphrey Bogart
The casting of the great iron bell in Andrei Tarkovsky's film
An old man found dead in a child's swing, his mission completed, at the end of Kurosawa's film
'Are you lookin' at me?' Robert De Niro
Charlie Chaplin being recognized by the little blind girl
Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg wading in the fountain
The sadness of the separated lovers in Jean Vigo's film
An overhead shot beginning with an entrance hall, and ending with a closeup of a key in Ingrid Bergman's hand, in Hitchcock's film
This classic film couple dancing. [Male dancer listed first]
Buster Keaton standing perfectly still while the wall of a house falls over upon him; he is saved by being exactly placed for an open window.
'There's your dog. Your dog's dead. But there had to be something that made it move. Doesn't there?' Line from Errol Morris' documentary
Debra Winger saying goodbye to her children
Jean-Paul Belmondo flipping a cigarette into his mouth in Godard's film
Title character running up the steps and pumping his hand into the air, with all of Philadelphia at his feet.
The savage zeal of the Klansmen in Griffith's film
The game of Russian roulette
Joan Baez singing 'Joe Hill'
'That spider is as big as a Buick!' Woody Allen
'My father made them an offer they couldn't refuse': Al Pacino
The peacock spreading its tail feathers in the snow, in Fellini's film
An old man all alone in his home, faced with the death of his wife and the indifference of his children, in Yasujiro Ozu's film
Chase scenes in any one of four films
'We're a long way from Kansas!' Judy Garland
'I always look well when I'm near death.' Greta Garbo to Robert Taylor
The early film experiment proving that these animals do sometimes have all four legs off the ground.
W.C. Fields flinching as a prop man hurls handfuls of fake snow into his face
The problem of the door that won't stay closed, in Jacques Tati's film
The singing of 'La Marseillaise'
'I want to live again. I want to live again. I want to live again. Please God, let me live again.' Jimmy Stewart to the angel
Robert Mitchum with 'LOVE' tattooed on the knuckles of one hand, and 'HATE' on the other.
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An angel looking down sadly over Berlin, in Wim Wenders' film
The shadow of the liquor bottle hidden in the light fixture
Jack Nicholson trying to order a chicken salad sandwich
The Man in the Moon getting a cannon shell in his eye, in Melies' film
'Rosebud.'
This Looney Tunes character, suspended in air after running off a cliff.
R2D2 and C3PO
A knight plays chess with Death, in Bergman's film
Clark Gable: 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.'
The montage of the kissing scenes censored from other films
The chariot race
Richard Burton exploding when Elizabeth Taylor reveals their 'secret'
A homesick North African, sadly telling a hooker that what he really wants is not sex but couscous, in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film
'Top o' the world, Ma!' James Cagney
Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock face
'There ain't much meat on her, but what's there is choice.' Spencer Tracy about Katharine Hepburn
John Wayne putting the reins in his mouth and galloping across the mountain meadow, weapons in both hands.
The baby carriage bouncing down the steps in Eisenstein's film
Robert De Niro's transformation from sleek boxer to paunchy nightclub owner
George C. Scott's speech about the enemy: 'We're going to go through him like crap through a goose.'
Eva Marie Saint clinging to Cary Grant's hand on Mt. Rushmore
'Mother of mercy. Is this the end of Rico?' Edward G. Robinson
Title character kissing Dopey on the head.
The film taken by this man of the Kennedy assassination: Over and over again, a moment frozen in time.
The distant sight of people appearing over the horizon at the end of this film
The haunted eyes of Antoine Doinel, Truffaut's autobiographical hero, in the closing freeze frame
Bette Davis: 'Fasten your seat belts; it's gonna be a bumpy night!'
The dinner guests who find they somehow cannot leave, in Bunuel's film
Pauline tied to the railroad tracks.
Hannibal Lecter smiling at Clarise
'Nobody's perfect': Joe E. Brown's last line explaining why he plans to marry Jack Lemmon even though he is a man.
The shooting party in Renoir's film
Marlon Brando's screaming 'Stella!'
Zero Mostel throwing a cup of cold coffee at the hysterical Gene Wilder and Wilder screaming: 'I'm still hysterical! Plus, now I'm wet!'
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Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr embrace on the beach
'Smoking.' Robert Mitchum's response, holding up his cigarette, when Kirk Douglas offers him a smoke
Barbara Harris singing 'It Don't Worry Me' to calm a panicked crowd in Robert Altman's film
The vast expanse of desert, and then tiny figures appearing
'It took more than one night to change my name to Shanghai Lily.' Marlene Dietrich
The Indian children watching the train pass by in Ray's film
'The next time you got nothin' to do, and lots of time to do it, come up and see me.' Mae West
'There ain't no sanity clause!' Chico to Groucho
The moment in Akira Kurosawa's film when a millionaire discovers that it was not his son who was kidnapped, but his chauffeur's son - and then the eyes of the two fathers meet.
Moses parting the Red Sea
A boy running joyously to greet his returning sharecropper father.
'They call me Mr. Tibbs.' Sidney Poitier in Norman Jewison's film
A man dying in the desert in von Stroheim's film
'I coulda been a contender.' Brando
Orson Welles smiling enigmatically in the doorway
'One word, Benjamin: plastics.'
'Don't touch the suit!' Burt Lancaster, dressed in white.
The day's outing of the mental patients
'I love the smell of napalm in the morning', dialogue by Robert Duvall,
The computer HAL 9000 reading lips
Jack Nicholson on the back of the motorcycle, wearing a football helmet
Gena Rowlands arrives at John Cassavetes' house with a taxicab full of adopted animals
Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta discuss what they call Quarter Pounders in France
The haunted eyes of the actress Maria Falconetti in Dreyer's film
Mookie throws the trash can through the window of Sal's Pizzeria
Jimmy Stewart approaching Kim Novak across the room, realizing she embodies all of his obsessions - better than he knows.
The geometrical choreography of girls by this director/choreographer.
'I'm still big! It's the pictures that got small!' Gloria Swanson
Title character and friend riding their bicycle across the face of the moon.
The mysterious body in the photographs in Antonioni's film
Gene Kelly performing a song and dance during a downpour.
Henry Fonda getting his hair cut
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ROGER EBERT's 100 Great Movie Moments Quiz

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