Friday, September 24, 2021

CINEMATIC HOLY MOMENTS: 1985

by Toby

[re-upload from the now defunct thewanderingimage.tumblr.com]
my personal favorite moments from films to receive a 1985 U.S. release. Not all of which made my actual “Best Films of 1985” list, but at least had incredible segments that stayed with me since first viewing. Scenes that I’m sure I’ll want to re-visit again and again.

+ = was actually featured on Toby's 1986 "Best of"

Inga the chimpanzee's sudden attack with straight razor
  - PHENOMENA (Argento)
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Winding up a dusty Tik-Tok. the Scarecrow’s “Royal Army of Oz”
  - RETURN TO OZ (Murch)
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Rosaleen climbs to the top of a tall tree.. watches a bleeding flower & curious eggs hatching. **Neil Jordan + fables = covalent bond**
- THE COMPANY OF WOLVES 
                              (Jordan)
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That amazing car chase centrepiece.. Even better than Friedkin’s own FRENCH CONNECTION chase, in my opinion
- TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. 
                              (Friedkin)
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the entire mall fight
   - POLICE STORY (Chan)
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Zombies begin to awake all over after Pvt. Salazar calls out for survivors on bullhorn.. Ruins of a coastal city begin to collectively moan.. That sound will forever send shivers down my spine
- DAY OF THE DEAD (Romero)
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Max VS. Blaster 
    - MAD MAX 
   BEYOND THUNDERDOME 
                                 (Miller)
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the neo-industrial Samurai VS. Sam's super-ego The Angel
      - BRAZIL (Gilliam)
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race against time at the town square clock tower.. **finale**
     - BACK TO THE FUTURE 
                            (Zemeckis)
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Baxter first emerges from the screen
- PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO 
                     (Woody Allen)
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The whole movie within a movie ending sequence at the drive-in.. Pee-Wee watching his Hollywood story while delivering snacks to the whole ensemble, etc. One of the sugary sweetest meta-moments ever
- PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE 
                              (Burton)
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"Beware the Wheelers." 
Post-apocalyptic Emerald City & her sadistic new denizens
   - RETURN TO OZ (Murch)
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stopping a giant rampaging Ohm beetle
- NAUSICAÄ OF THE 
       VALLEY OF THE WIND 
                             (Miyazaki)
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Large Marge tells her story
- PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE 
                             (Burton)
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Dorothy sneaking past Mombi's hall of severed heads to retrieve the “Powder of Life.” All while Mombi’s decapitated body slumbers nearby. A sequence worthy of Hitchcock in it’s construction
    - RETURN TO OZ (Murch)
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Private Dick Visser attempts to finish the Abby assignment.
**finale violence @ loft apartment**
   - BLOOD SIMPLE (Coen bros)
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also;
this commercial for the greatest food product of all time
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Toby’s Favorite Movie Moments
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